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Home › Politics

Politics | 04/28/2008 6:46 pm

wOw's Views on the News: Is It Time for Clinton or Obama to Throw In the Towel?

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
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By staying in the race, are the Democratic candidates inadvertently sabotaging their party’s chances of winning the election? This weekend, Howard Dean called on Clinton or Obama to drop out of the race for the candidacy by June. "Either of these candidates, if it’s time for them to go, they’ll know it and they will go," Dean said, according to the Associated Press. But will they? Should they? And if so, should they wait until the Puerto Rico primary or should the move be made now?
Read more about: Barack Obama, Election, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Puerto Rico Primary

281 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

James the Game
Yes, the longer it gets, the more replies there are. It’s kind of like a ball of yarn or spaghetti.
By James the Game on 08/25/2008 3:39 pm
Michael Salling
I think you’re gonna need those nose plugs, doc. A light came on when you made the alzheimer’s statement. My father’s 4 older siblings and his parents all died of it were seriously impaired when they died. Dad died in an auto accident at age 67. I’m recalling that incredible failure to “recall” the difference the Sunni’s and Shia (he called al-quida shia) comes to mind. Did you see his speech this morning on C-span? He had that deer in the headlights look i’ve seen on the faces of a number of alzheimers sufferers. I feel they feel at a loss and quite foolish and sheepish and in the early stages are paralyzed by that as much as anything else. They are so horrified by the fact they can’t recall as they used to, it’s impossible for them to “live in the moment.” in another situation, they may function quite well. Do you think this has any validity. I’m so freaked out by this problem with “uncle Al” as we call it, I’m afraid to have any testing done. I’m just hoping my mother’s sturdy Irish genes will pull me through. It’s one of the main reasons I’m a supporter of Euthanasia — assisted suicide as it exists in Oregon is useless for folks like my ancestors.
By Michael Salling on 04/29/2008 7:37 pm
Diana T
Too much attention is spent of their competition. So much ammunition for the Republicans when the campaigns heat up this fall. The Dems had best be concentrating their efforts on defeating the GOP instead of all this in-fighting.
By Diana T on 04/29/2008 11:44 am
Eileen T
Joan, I think one of the candidates should ‘throw in the towel’ but not right now. If Hillary loses N Carolina and Indiana, she should drop out for the sake of the Democratic Party. If she wins both Indiana and N Carolina, no way as Barack will have totally lost the momentum. Final primaries June 6th should bring all Super Delegates out of the political closet and announce their choices. Then it’s a done deal! Five months till election is plenty of time for the Dems to come together.
By Eileen T on 04/29/2008 2:00 pm
mary lou s
eileen, if obama becomes the nominee, he is going to need to learn how to relate to blue collar voters (as in indiana). hillary is either giving him this training or staying viable in case he never learns. either way, we need her in the race.
By mary lou s on 04/29/2008 2:05 pm
Dan H.
Aren’t all the blue collar workers now in China, India or Mexico? Aren’t the white collar workers going to follow them? China says it’s going to stop importing white collar workers since it graduates 300,000 engineers to 75,000 each year in the United States. I thought it was older women who were Obama’s problem, and an elderly lady friend says she doesn’t understand what their attraction to Clinton is. Does anyone here understand it; that is, having heard it from an elderly friend or grandmother or something like that?
By Dan H. on 04/30/2008 12:12 am
Buh- Bye
I suspect it’s only a “Groundhog Day” experience for those who’ve already voted. The rest wait for their chance at the trough.
By Buh- Bye on 04/29/2008 10:48 pm
Star Lawrence
That’s what voting is—a chance at the trough? I just wrote a story on the League of Women Voters—and it reminded me how tough those suffragettes were—made of iron. We could take notes…
By Star Lawrence on 05/03/2008 11:40 am
Mugsy Peabody
I don’t at all agree. Senator Clinton is showing her mettle in staying in. Why should she leave? Wouldn’t things be entirely different for virtually everyone on the planet if Vice President Gore hadn’t thrown in the towel on the first Bush election? He quit because he thought it was “good for the country” or whatever. It was not good for the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve died because of this nightmare. What right do any of us have to tell Senator Clinton to quit? We voted or we will vote. Otherwise, it’s her decision and her supporters’ decision. I think Obama should quit. I think he’s a spoiler, just like Nader was earlier. Many of you don’t agree. So let’s finish the game.
By Mugsy Peabody on 04/29/2008 12:21 am
Deni G
LOL!
By Deni G on 04/29/2008 12:47 am
Deni G
ok~ that LOL looks a little weird here. In view of the stuff you said about Gore and people dying. Totally inappropriate of me. And I happen to agree. So just pretend it is a visual hallucination and I never put it there! Cause i meant it to be funny and it’s just not. perhaps it’s time now for me to hit the sack. And return when I read more better!
By Deni G on 04/29/2008 1:20 am
Jenny Oops
Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. :):):):):)
By Jenny Oops on 04/29/2008 5:21 am
Jenny Oops
oooo, that was for Mugsy. 5:00 with our spatulas, Mugsy. :):):):) Think Deni more than made up for her baddie with her apology. Poisonally, I’m glad other folks do baddies, too. Thanx Deni!
By Jenny Oops on 04/29/2008 5:24 am
Deni G
LOL! I know exactly what you mean Jenny.
By Deni G on 04/29/2008 1:49 pm
Michael Salling
Darling Mugsy, the question is whether clitton or osama should throw in the towel, and clearly the time will come for the boy from springfield to accept the inevitable and reconcile himself to being first af/am vp and first African American president in 2016 at the latest. If he will make the kind of sacrifice that Al Gore did (and Gore truly did, and everyone acknowledged it at the time—there was nothing he could have done. If he had gone down in flames leading some kind of “mass movement” in the streets like happened in Mexico when the current president took office he’d have lost all credibility for all time (especially after 9/11) and would have never won the Nobel or the Oscar and would never have become the Abraham Lincoln of the 21st century. It was Kerry the hypocritical slimy gold digging fawning coward wanna-be war hero who totally wussed out when he let the thieves steal Ohio. I nearly became physically ill when I heard he had actually answered in affirmative that oh so easy to answer question “if you knew than what you know now would you have voted to authorize the invasion of Iraq.” It was then that I realized he was not only a whore but a stupid whore and yet I still continued to support his candidacy and voted for him of course for what choice does any of us have in this sado-masochistic political system but to try to discern the lesser of the evils?
By Michael Salling on 04/29/2008 5:53 am
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