Hillary Clinton will wave goodbye to her 2008 campaign Saturday at the National Museum Building, where she and Bill Clinton celebrated his presidential victories
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Barack Obama was all smiles durnig a rally in Chicago on Friday.
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton's last waltz from the 2008 White House race will be performed on a stage where she and Bill danced the night away to celebrate his 1992 and 1996 wins.
New York's junior senator will gather supporters around her at noon in the National Museum Building, a scene of inaugural balls and victory galas in the Clinton-Gore era.
Clinton insiders expected her last turn in the '08 spotlight would be upbeat as she backs Barack Obama, the rival who upset her once-inevitable march to the Oval Office.
"It was very close, but now we'll do everything we can to help Barack Obama become the next President," Clinton campaign Chairman Terry McAuliffe told reporters outside the senator's Embassy Row mansion, where she held a massive afternoon party to bid her staff farewell.
"She will do anything she can to help Barack Obama," he said. "If he wants her to travel every day, she will do that."
Sources called the event fun, but there were also tears and hugs - and lingering bitterness that will take some time to heal among Clinton's soon-to-be-unemployed foot soldiers.
"I will never forgive Obama for what he did to Hillary," said a campaign aide who declined to be specific.
"I will vote for him, but that's it," said another.
The wound-licking celebration came after a meeting the night before between the former rivals, who both evaded the press to meet for an hour at the home of California Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
"They called me when it was over. I came down and said, 'Good night, everybody, I hope you had a good meeting,'" Feinstein told reporters. "They were laughing and that was it."
Sources told the Daily News they avoided the touchy subject of the vice presidency, which many Clinton supporters would like to see her tapped for, but which Clinton's office said she is not seeking.
"She doesn't know what she wants to do yet," said one senior insider.
A cocky Obama reveled Friday in his status as the party's standard-bearer, making a bold prediction in a surprise visit to a Chicago rally for its 2016 Olympics bid.
"In 2016, I'll be wrapping up my second term as President," Obama said.
kbazinet@nydailynews.com
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crat3 Jun 7, 2008 3:40:57 AM Report Offensive Post
"'In 2016, I'll be wrapping up my second term as President,' Obama said." The apparent arrogance of his cult powers, which obviously don't extend to supporters of Sen. Clinton. Sen. Clinton's supporters in the swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan should work for Obama's defeat by campaigning and voting for McCain. Obama must win atleast three of these states in November. I will volunteer and vote for McCain in a swing state. The key for Obama to win in November lies with Sen. Clinton's supporters in the swing states; for Obama, that key is lost for 2008 but it opens the door to 2012 for Sen. Clinton, when she can reform a corrupt Democratic Party.
ez2c Jun 7, 2008 4:46:26 AM Report Offensive Post
The Democratic Nominee and Also-Ran are setting the example by making nice. The question remains, will the flocks follow suit? Hillary, the Queen of Spin and a Legend in Her Own Mind! http://klintons.com
bruceofthebush Jun 7, 2008 5:24:15 AM Report Offensive Post
As an observer in South Africa it has been a pleasure to watch Democacy in action, mainly from my satellite feed from MSNBC who boradcast the Race for the Whitehouse nearly 24 hours a day. With the "fourth estate" , if that is the correct term, we can see how a free open media/press fosters democracy. I do have a question, which may be obvious to everyone in the USA, but to us in the outside world it is a mystery. My question is as follows. Is Nancy Pelosi allowed to be invited to become VP to Obama? Are there restrictions as the speaker of the house of being barred from this office? I ask this as she appears to me to have no baggage, is well spoken and well respected; experienced in politics and able to speak her mind without fear or favour on important issues on education, health care, the war in Iraq, and the well being of the planet. Surely she would make a better match as a VP than Hilary Clinton??
Samelson21 Jun 7, 2008 6:10:34 AM Report Offensive Post
It is too obvious that Newsday was always against Hillary’s candidacy. Now that she is about to give up, the misogynists of Newsday still doesn’t want to say anything nice about the brave woman who got out 18 million voters during the primary in support of her candidacy and many millions who couldn’t vote during the primaries. The press seems to be obsessed with Obama as they did with Iraq war. Although they know now that all their hoopla about Iraq war was a lie, no one has the guts to acknowledge they were wrong in supporting the lies from the White House when they hailed the war drums. Similarly, when Obama stumbles, these guys will quickly abandon him and go to the next thriller. The gentleman from South Africa who had commented earlier should know that most of the corporate media here are a bunch of opportunists and they are not part of a democracy.
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