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Clinton: It'd be terrible mistake to pick McCain over Obama

cnn.com — Hillary Clinton on Wednesday reiterated her vow to stay in the Democratic presidential race, but she said it would be a "terrible mistake" for her supporters to vote for John McCain over Barack Obama.

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  • dinot, on 05/15/2008, -5/+174THANK YOU! Hopefully her supporters put our differences aside and listen to her advice.
  • Gemfinder, on 05/15/2008, -18/+172Gee, how's that for a turnaround?
    Just a couple months ago, Hillary's tune was "McCain would make a better President than Barack Obama."
    Had a change of heart, did we?
  • FasterGun, on 05/15/2008, -5/+98A frontpage article on Digg showing Hillary being rational?! A new age is upon us!
  • inactive, on 05/15/2008, -10/+96The mature side of Hilary took a little bit too long to show itself.
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  • mrASSMAN, on 05/15/2008, -9/+55Yep: she's running for the vice-presidential ticket now.

    (I really hope Obama doesn't pick her, even though it would likely help his prospects of winning)
  • j0hneb0y81, on 05/15/2008, -4/+39i think.. (hope) that most of that is just heat of the moment anger that will diffuse come nov
  • Dbeneath, on 05/15/2008, -6/+40haha. only digg would use this to flame her even more. (Obama supporter here, don't bury pls)
  • dualboy24, on 05/15/2008, -3/+43Well I hope that the majority of Clinton voters will not vote for McCain to spite Obama. However, over at the http://www.hillaryclintonforum.net/discussion/ they are a bunch of nuts.
  • scotishstriker, on 05/15/2008, -3/+32Obama isn't going to pick you for VP just go work off that huge debt from your failed campaign
  • orion846, on 05/15/2008, -0/+27lmao, that's easily the most insanely racist and paranoid thing i've ever heard in my life
  • Semirhage527, on 05/15/2008, -0/+25People can barely predict how they'll feel 7 months from now, much less polling data. There are tons of examples of primaries where exit polls said the voters of A wouldn't vote for B, or vice versa, and then low and behold, in the general, they did. Primary contests just aren't a predictor of performance in general elections, and neither are polls which ask people to see into the future.
  • kappuru, on 05/15/2008, -0/+22I think you drank too much cough medicine.
  • whiteguysamurai, on 05/15/2008, -5/+26Anyone but McCain, if that guy gets elected we are all in deep *****.
  • inactive, on 05/15/2008, -3/+23Someone call the waaaambulance
  • rentmitchum, on 05/15/2008, -7/+27Clinton's supporters hate Obama cause he's black and Obama's hate Clinton because she's a horrible person. You can't reconcile hate, you can't reason with hate. Hate is a powerful tool of the dark side, but it isn't stronger than the way of the Jedi.

    Where did I go with that?
  • Mejari, on 05/15/2008, -1/+19As a side note, I tried to register as user GoBama simply to add a "Congratulations on Edwards' endorsement of Clinton today" but before I could I was banned permanently, simply for a username with the name Obama in it. You can say all you want about digg, but at least the people with ideas other than the majority get to write them down before we shut them up.
  • SilentRamble42, on 05/15/2008, -2/+20Sounds like someone's setting her supporters up for a goodbye.
  • JEAH, on 05/15/2008, -2/+20Yea, cuz that worked so well in 2000
  • JNudda, on 05/15/2008, -2/+19In related news, Hillary confirms that gravity is indeed real, and that 2 + 2 doesn't equal 22, but rather 4.
  • chrgrose, on 05/15/2008, -3/+20Sounds like she's preparing to pull out.
  • Mejari, on 05/15/2008, -0/+15That is some scary *****. They're all over there accusing Obama of being Muslim, that his wife is a whiner because she talks about how hard it was to create a nation-wide campaign, etc... etc... It's that kind of forum where one view is reflected over and over again back and forth until such idiotic things like "Obama's a Muslim" become accepted truth. Although I did find the entire thread about how everyone was so sure that Edwards was going to endorse Clinton rather enjoying, given today's events.
  • babylonian, on 05/15/2008, -0/+15Wow, that forum is ***** ridiculous. A few quotes from it:

    On Hilary running as an INDEPENDENT (?!?!): "Could she win? My guess is no, but something that should be considered. On the plus side it will keep Obama out of the White House, and probably hand it to McCain. On the negative, she could never run in 2012 if she lost."

    Also this: "I tell ya what. Lets keep waiting for this A-Bomb to drop, and thinking that anyday now the corrupt DNC will come to their senses. That way while we're waiting, one day in Nov we will all wake up and realize..."Shi+" I have to choose between A terrorist and a republican today."
  • feenxfire, on 05/15/2008, -0/+13And they call Obama supporters cultists...
  • mawh, on 05/15/2008, -2/+17She'll do another 180 degree turnaround when Obama picks his VP and it's not her.
  • tc2004txst, on 05/15/2008, -1/+14Even when Hillary says it would be a mistake? You might be the biggest idiot I have encountered.
  • pearlygate, on 05/15/2008, -3/+15ah the C word
  • virtualball, on 05/15/2008, -5/+18I know she gets a horrible rap (as she should) but I think we could all agree that we'd rather have Hillary over McCain any day....
  • lpxxfaintxx2, on 05/15/2008, -6/+19Wtf is this? Clinton talking sense? What next? Clinton dropping out?!

    Don't count on it.
  • Neorio, on 05/15/2008, -3/+15I heard that the folks in West Virginia wouldn't vote for Obama solely because he isn't white. Saying some pretty backwards things like "Wouldn't want a black man in my house, so why should there be one in the white house?"

    Face it - whole communities of Americans are just that ignorant that they would vote based on race more than anything else. Perhaps it works both ways in predominantly black regions too.

    Geez, I hope for an American that can just get over this "race" crap - to the point where it just doesn't matter anymore.
  • inactive, on 05/15/2008, -4/+15Obama should give her the spot, provided that she give him head on national television while he delivers his inaugural address.
  • cypriss9, on 05/15/2008, -0/+11Could you illuminate how reasoning like that works?
  • mrkmrk, on 05/15/2008, -1/+11She misspoke.
  • dOOBiEx213, on 05/15/2008, -0/+12Yup. Maybe there IS a light at the end of the tunnel... let's just hope it's not train McCain.
  • Mejari, on 05/15/2008, -1/+13Wow, you're that against Obama even though he shares almost all the basic platform stances with Hillary, whom you support? You may not like the man, but if you care about the issues then not voting is, no offense, the stupidest thing you could do.
  • kipmartin, on 05/15/2008, -1/+10ive never thought McCain was better than Obama or Hillary. to vote for McCain basically ensures a SCOTUS full of losers, a gridlocked congress, and a perpetuation of a low IQ in the Oval Office.

    Hillary was overly ambitious, but hardly evil. and Obama might be a dreamer, but at least hes looking outside the beltway for answers. Obama and Hillary: there are FAR worse things.
  • AutomaticTLC, on 05/15/2008, -0/+9You're an idiot.
  • Cytzn, on 05/15/2008, -4/+14Go ahead! Throw your vote away!
  • virtualball, on 05/15/2008, -0/+8[/sarcasm] or [/paranoia] ?
  • jetx29, on 05/15/2008, -1/+9Even if you aren't so sure he'll follow through, it's better than the alternative of policies that UNDERMINE what you want...Seriously...
  • Mejari, on 05/15/2008, -1/+9Go look at any of those handy online tools that compare the candidates and you will see how incredibly wrong you are. Hillary and Obama = pro healthcare, McCain = not, Hillary and Obama - gtfo of Iraq, McCain = 100 more years, etc... etc... How is that similar?
  • RebeL5K, on 05/15/2008, -5/+13That would be the liberal slant of the American people, not "digg". Every story on digg is submitted by and boosted by ordinary Americans, people like me and you. If there is a reason why it seems digg has a liberal slant, perhaps you haven't been paying attention the past 8 years.
  • jeffinfremont, on 05/15/2008, -0/+8I think the point that some of the candidates, as well as the media, are sidestepping is that many of us who support Obama is because he is the only major candidate who is not part of the Cold War establishment. Both Clinton and McCain are part of that political process which calls upon polarization and demonization. Senator Obama gets it; we are in a changing world where the "us vs. them" mentality is, essentially, old and busted. We need a new kind of politics which at least attempts to do away with past divisions and move forward in a manner that involves discourse, compromise, and above all, transparency.
  • inactive, on 05/15/2008, -1/+9Digg liberal? Did you miss the circus around Ron Paul, the most conservative candidate in recent history?
  • Danby123, on 05/15/2008, -1/+9Trolls Trolls, Trolling Trolls.
  • junkwheel, on 05/15/2008, -0/+7Why did she say McCain would make a better president in the first place? Does she really think that would help her? How can she even say she ran as a Democrat when she made statements like that? How does McCain would make a better president than Obama help the democratic party exactly?

    She doesn't have a chance in hell at the VP slot on an Obama ticket. It might help Obama win, but it wouldn't help him in the White House. And you know damn well he knows it's the latter that matters. He will take it without her on the VP slot. Michelle hating her doesn't exactly help her prospects either. But the way she has run her campaign, who her campaign is financed by, who her friends are: lobbyists, insiders, corporations, etc. It's the opposite of the campaign Obama has run and precisely what he wants to change. They may share many policy positions, within the states at least, but they're chalk and cheese otherwise.
  • topgigmedia, on 05/15/2008, -1/+10They will. Otherwise 50% of Dems are complete, ignorant, asshat morons.
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