Hillary Rodham Clinton has decided to officially end her historic presidential campaign, two senior aides told CBS News
Clinton will host an event in Washington, DC, on Saturday to thank her supporters and express her support for Barack Obama and Democratic Party unity.
The former first lady told House Democrats during a private conference call Wednesday that she will express support for Obama’s candidacy and congratulate him for gathering the necessary delegates to be the party’s nominee.
Also in the speech, Clinton will urge once-warring Democrats to focus on the general election and defeating Republican presidential candidate John McCain.
One adviser said Clinton and her lieutenants had discussed various ways a presidential candidacy can end, including suspending the campaign to retain control of her convention delegates and sustain her visibility in an effort to promote her signature issue of health care.
The other options include freeing her delegates to back Obama and ending her candidacy unconditionally. The official stressed that neither Clinton nor her inner circle had decided specifically what course to take other than to recognize that the active state of her bid to become the first U.S. female president had ended.
On the telephone call with impatient House supporters, Clinton was urged to draw a close to the contentious campaign, or at least express support for Obama. Her decision to acquiesce caught many in the campaign by surprise and left the campaign scrambling to finalize the logistics and specifics behind her campaign departure
I am happy that male-haters are in backfoot but most of the problem are created by 16th century men who do not understand the game of feminists.
It is good that feminism has lost in US.
Renuka will loose 2009 general elections. I am sure…..
Ram Balak