How will Hillary be able to endorse Obama?

[RiverStone]

She has gone way beyond disagreements in policy, but has attacked the core of Obama's character and how (in her view) it effects his ability to be presidential.

Her divisive and arrogant tactics have done nothing but shine the light on her own inability to run, organize, and maintain a positive and successful campaign.

The SuperD's will not let the Clintons tear apart the party and in the end, Hillary will be politely but firmly ushered out the door if she refuses to gracefully withdraw. Almost all Democratic pundits out there in the corporate media acknowledge Obama is very likely the party's nominee. We need to unify as a party to have the best chance to win the GE this fall.

How can Hillary endorse Obama and have it be seen as nothing more than disingenuous bullshit after all the negative rhetoric she has spewed regarding his ability to lead?

[TeamJordan23]

1. Who knows if she will at all. nm

[K Gardner]

2. She won't be able to. And who wants/needs the endorsement of a republican? She's done.

[Mags]

6. I thinks He needs it very bad if he gets the nom. Almost half

of the Dems. support her. You want them to not vote for him?

[RiverStone]

13. He does need Hillary supporters...

And ultimately, I do think he would benefit from her endorsement as well.

The disconnect I can't fathom is when Hillary says things as sweeping as we don't need a president who looks down on people --- how can she then take those words back?

Same with the McCain experience statement.

Ya can't put that egg back together again.

[hfojvt]

19. How much difference does the endorsement make?

As a guy who caucused for Obama, that does not mean I follow his endorsement. Some of her supporters won't vote for Obama if she does endorse and many will vote for Obama even if she doesn't endorse. If she and Bill campaign and give good speeches at the Convention, that will make more of a difference than a simple endorsement, but it still will not mean everything. Obama can win those voters and/or McCain lose them by the way they campaign and by the things they say in the debates and also by the way the M$M analyzes them.

[Bensthename]

3. She can't.. It is obvious she flat out wants McCain to win in Nov.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Easy... she'll lie.

it's what she does best.

[Bensthename]

5. yup, with a smile on her face like when talking about being shot at.

[cottonseed]

7. She won't be able to. That's what's sad.

Also, in tarnishing Bill the campaign has trashed the most visible and liked Democrat we had and as an extension trashed the entire Democratic party.

[dkf]

8. Hillary has joined "them"...all those people I've been fighting against

since George Bush got elected.

I no longer see her as a Democrat. She has joined the RW wacko contingency.

[0007]

9. The Queen will give no quarter and ask for NO quarter.

[wndycty]

10. I now longer want her endorsement

:kick:

[RiverStone]

14. The question is, does he need her endorsement to win?

We on DU may not care, but in the real world --- how does it play out?

[Liberal Gramma]

11. Same way she endorsed Gore and Kerry:

tepidly.

[lapfog_1]

12. The real question is will Hillary

pull a Lieberman and run as an Independent after she loses the nomination.

The whole strategy since Wisconsin has been to destroy Obama, not promote herself. She knows that she has virtually no chance at the nomination this year... so she is doing the scorched earth to prep for a run in 2012 against then 76 year old President McCain.

The only other plausible scenario is that she will become the VP to McCain and then run in 2012 (or count on McCain resigning due to cancer treatments).

[flowomo]

15. "I've tested Sen. Obama in every way I knew how...

and he stood firm, answered brilliantly and emerged the winner. I wanted to win this nomination -- and fought as hard as I could for it. Some have criticized me for my tactics -- but I can assure you the Republicans will come at him harder and meaner. I have every confidence Sen. Obama will handle that as effectively and graciously as he handled my criticisms -- and I hope that his contest with me will have better prepared him for the difficult contest that lies ahead. And finally, and most importantly, Sen. Obama may have been my opponent in this primary, but I am his ally in this election -- because he stands head, heart and shoulders over John McCain and America deserves that kind of leadership."

Or something along those lines. It's been done a million times before. In politics, the past fades quickly.

[RiverStone]

18. Good speech

I'd like to give her the benefit of the doubt and that someplace inside, she could find it within her to share gracious words much as you have written them flowomo --- but everyday the whirlwind rages on, I grow more disillusioned with the Clintons scorched earth approach.

I hope your right and indeed, she could do it and we can then move on to kick McCain's war mongering ass in the GE.

[Yael]

16. Ya know what would be really funny?

If her Texas delegates got stripped because she didn't endorse the candidate.

Yes, I know it would be meaningless in the long run, but that would make for a perfect end note.

[sellitman]

17. She has an "out".

She can say all the crap she threw at him was just the latest "mis-speak"

It has as much believability as her last "mis-speak".

[MonkeyFunk]

20. The same way he'll endorse her if she gets the nomination...

it's not personal - it's politics.