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Clinton campaign denies plans to concede
Jun 3, 2008, 16:02 GMT
Washington - Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign on Tuesday denied a report that she plans to acknowledge that rival Barack Obama has won enough delegates to secure the Democratic nomination.
Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe told CNN the story was '100 per cent' incorrect and that the former first lady intends to fight on until someone has captured the nomination.
'That is not at all what Senator Clinton is going to talk about tonight,' McAuliffe said. 'No one has the number to be the nominee of the Democratic party right now.'
His comments come following a report, citing Clinton campaign officials, that the New York senator will admit Obama has won enough delegates after the final state primaries in South Dakota and Montana Tuesday night.
'They are 100 per cent reporting incorrectly,' McAuliffe said, adding there will be 'no surprises' in Clinton's speech after polls close.
Clinton slightly trails Obama in the delegate count determined by the outcome of state contests, but her chances of overtaking him have grown increasingly slim. Bill Clinton raised speculation that his wife was preparing to exit the race during a campaign rally Monday.
'This may be the last day I'm ever involved in a campaign of this kind,' Bill Clinton said in South Dakota.
'I thought I was out of politics until Hillary decided to run. It has been one of the greatest honours of my life to go around and campaign for her for president,' the former president said.
Obama has slowly neared taking a majority of delegates, and a good showing later Tuesday could allow him to claim the nomination. But Clinton believes she can persuade superdelegates, a group of Democratic party insiders who cast votes independently of the state- by-state process, that she is the best candidate to square off against Republican John McCain in the November 4 election.
A group of more than a dozen undecided Democratic senators reportedly met Monday in Washington to consider their options. The Washington Post Tuesday reported that the group may endorse Obama after polling stations close Tuesday evening in the two final states.
Clinton gained some last-minute momentum after trouncing Obama Sunday in Puerto Rico's primary. But the victory by 68 to 32 per cent could be Clinton's last, as Obama is favoured Tuesday in both Montana and South Dakota - the final events in the state-by-state intra-party contests that began on January 3 in Iowa.
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know of a single Colored person who is a slave in the United States; ergo Mr Wright, go screw yourself and get a real job instead of inciting riots. In addition, keep that damn Michelle Obama off your pulpit.
Opens your eyes, man. Haven't you ever heard of 'wage slave'?
There is such a thing as economic slavery. There are no iron chains, only money ones. Anybody who earns less than $100,000 is a wage slave. That means most americans.
Oh, sixteen tons and whdda you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt!
Saint Peter dontcha call me 'cause I cain't go!
I owe my soul to the company store.
Boo-hoo.
'There are no iron chains, only money ones. Anybody who earns less than $100,000 is a wage slave. '
Stupidest comment in human history, right there...
apparently you haven't read the comments from SP4, Noharness, and Charles over the past couple of years.
isn't he???
nohraness should go back to working for and complaining about the Chinese Communists.
It is about the dirtiest thing an idiot like you can do to try to come up with someone else's personal information and post it. Pathetic, you are just mad because you get regularly smacked around here and you are too mentally handicapped to do anything about it.
You can't help being a moron, but you don't have to be such a miserable, petty, vindictive little moron.
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Obama’s Church got $15M in Federal Grant MoneyJun 3rd, 2008 - 17:25:40
Across America ...parents drop their kids at day care centers, which are supported by funding from the federal government.
But what makesone facility noteworthy in inner city Chicago is that it’s run by Trinity United Church of Christ. It’s the same church whose former head pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, drew widespread scrutiny after he cursed the U.S. government for its treatment of African-Americans.
FOX News has learned that over the last 15 years, Trinity has received at least $15 million in grants from the federal government — in other words, taxpayer money.[...]
DePaul University journalism professor Laura Washington, who specializes in race and politics, said Wright is a hypocrite for taking money from the government.
“On the one hand, he says, ‘God damn America’ and he says America is responsible for all the ills in the black community. On the other hand, he’s taking money from the same community he’s crucifying,” Washington said.
But another scholar who specializes in religion and politics says Wright never swore off government funding like ultra-nationalist Black Muslims have.
Andrew Walsh, associate director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life with Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., said Wright’s practices fall in line with his preaching.
“Wright believes things like the government-funded programs are a necessary compensation for the legacy of white racism, part of what’s necessary to heal the wounds inflicted over four centuries on blacks....]
elections.foxnews.com/2008/06/02/obamas-ex-church-
15 million bucks...
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