Hilary Rodham Clinton Admits Defeat
 

Neat!

It's about time.

Indeed.

I'm very happy that she finally realized if she kept holding out, she would just be hurting the party in the election.

I wonder if she'll get the VP nomination?

That being said, this was an interesting election - it boiled down to a close race to a potential first black president or a potential first woman president. (If Hilary was actually put in office, would Bill be termed "First Husband?") That being said, I was rooting for Obama - not that I know any real practices or causes of any of the campaigners, but Obama had some choice things to say about Health Care, which I agreed with.

She more than certainly is looking for it, and I imagine Obama is considering the potential of such a move. While I wouldn't like that to happen (mainly because Clinton represents all that Obama has been campaigning against), it's probably the most direct and swift decision to do in order to secure the white middle-aged vote Obama needs to win the race.

You do realize that this is because he wanted the nomination, not because they share particularly different viewpoints, right?

I think he means Obama has been trumpeting change as the primary reason for his own nomination, and it would be hypocritical to choose a Clinton as his running mate simply because a Clinton is a lot more of stuff thats been in the White House before and not really change at all.

I doubt she will get the VP nomination, their views are too different.

As you are the second person to suggest this, may I ask that you state where they are different? It's seemed to me from the get-go that they were running on virtually the same platform, the only real difference being race and gender.

Okay, so Barack has been trumpeting change, but has he discussed what he means by that? I may have genuinely missed it as I don't generally go looking for the news, rather letting it find me. I just haven't heard anything from him that suggests change except from a GOP president to a Democratic one.

Slightly tangential, I'm not a fan of either candidate this year. Going to look into serious 3rd party candidates in a month or so.

I like Obama (don't love him, but would at least briefly consider voting for him over McCain, despite having less in common with Obama on certain issues, simply because Obama's a smart and thoroughly likable guy.)

I hate Hillary Clinton.

Their platforms may be similar, but on a values level, Hillary and Obama are on two fundamentally different levels. Obama's essentially a clean guy who's run a (relatively) clean campaign. He's an idealist who aspires for greatness and that's a thoroughly likable quality these days. Hillary, on the other hand, is a dirty, manipulative realist who plays the same dirty politics everyone seems to play in the Beltway these days. Her techniques are vile, and Obama himself has been the target.

Take the Gas Tax Holiday initiative -- Hillary (and McCain for that matter, and this is something that's caused me to seriously doubt my prior strong support for John) supported it, despite the fact that it's clearly just a publicity stunt designed to snare uneducated voters, and it'll really screw over the economy far more than it'll help us. Obama had the virtue to ignore that bullcrap. Hillary saw it as a chance to overtake him, and so she said "screw the legitimacy of the action itself, I just want the votes." That's the kind of person Hillary is, and the Clintons in general seem to be these days: they'll play up any angle. Just a couple months ago they used blatant racial undertones to try to undermine Barack and ailenated black voters who previously considered Bill the "first black president." Now, Hillary -- despite having lost the primary -- is attempting to use raw power politics to force Barack into conceding a spot on the ticket for her.

There's so much I don't understand about Hillary -- like why so many women consider her a role-model for women (just because you're the first female to do something doesn't mean you should automatically be supported by other women regardless of your positions on issues and your behavior during a campaign. If I act like a jackass during a political primary, should other caucasian men with Italian heritage support me simply because I'm "one of them?")
But, I'll admit to a bias of a sort -- Hillary's gotten on my nerves for quite some time now, for more than a decade. I'm really shocked that I seem to be in the minority on that one. But I will say that Obama will lose any chance of snaring my vote if Hillary's the VP on his ticket -- it undermines the nature of his message, even if it doesn't actually undermine most the issues he's campaigning for.

I don't pay much attention to politics, but even I'm glad to see Hilary go. What little I have heard has been about health care, and that she was planning to make it so that health insurance is required by law, as opposed to simply making it cheaper. Mind you I heard it from a human, and humans can be a bit biased about things sometime. But if she really was planning to just make health insurance required by law, half my family would be boned.

I'm told Obama also has this internet neutrality thing going, which is good in theory as long as it doesn't let our internets crash.