What’s Next
June 5, 2008 by Diva Jood
The Washington Post reports
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is likely to suspend her presidential campaign on Saturday and endorse Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee, according to informed sources.
The New York Times reports
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will endorse Senator Barack Obama on Saturday, bringing a close to her 17-month campaign for the White House, aides said. Her decision came after Democrats urged her Wednesday to leave the race and allow the party to coalesce around Mr. Obama.
An Associated Press report says
Clinton, in an e-mail to supporters, said she “will be speaking on Saturday about how together we can rally the party behind Senator Obama. The stakes are too high and the task before us too important to do otherwise.”
The AP report also says that Mrs. Clinton is exploring ways to retain her delegates in order to promote her issues which include her call for universal health care. This is an issue dear to my own heart. I was pleased to hear Obama, in his speech Tuesday night, declare that Hillary Clinton would be at the forefront of solving the health care crisis in America. Mrs. Clinton will endorse Obama on Saturday, which is essential as we go into the November election season. Okay, the conventions are still ahead. Running mates have yet to be selected. But really, at this point, the match-up is Obama vs. McCain, and we need to focus on the issues that matter. Issues, not personalities. Issues: health care; the disaster in the mortgage and housing arena (thank you Phil Gramm, McCain’s chief economic advisor); getting us out of the Civil War we created in Iraq; social security; the environment.
The differences between the candidates are quite distinct, and I challenge all of us to focus on these issues on our blogs each week. The more we clarify the distinctions between Obama and McCain, the more likely we will reach people and motivate them to take action and vote.
Really, I have hope for the first time in 40 years.
cross-posted at Journeys with Jood</
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i hope the bitterness and hostility on both sides can go away. this has been an ordeal and we have a candidate and we have one of the hardest working people in political office available to assist.
hillary clinton’s health plan is better than obama’s. it was the main sticking point when i moved my support to him.
it is one of the primary issues we have to get on ~ loudly ~ to demonstrate the vast difference between the democrats and john mccain. mccain’s just another rethug corporate shill, protecting the right of insurance companies and drug companies to keep every one of us teetering on the brink of financial ruin. and if you don’t get that, you haven’t had a health crisis in this country. i’m not talking about a surgery or a little diagnostic problem; for people with chronic illnesses, insurance and the medical system can be financially devastating. when i saw michael moore’s sicko, it was with two people who had had to file bankruptcy due to medical bills and me, of course, with my ++$300,000-400,000 medical burden of the last 8 years.
and the other thing . . . social security and medicare. if we don’t get this medicare part D reversed, it will kill medicare, which is what the rethugs intended when they voted in that plan. social security is threatened by increasing calls for privatization and i am SICK TO DEATH of the reference to these programs as “entitlements.”
“entitlements,” only no one calls it an entitlement ~ a handout, in effect ~ when we pay insurance on our houses or cars or health. it’s called pooling resources to spread risk. it’s simply public, nonprofit insurance in the case of medical and disability, and it’s a public, nonprofit annuity in the case of social security.
we have to change the words to win this thing. NOT socialized medicine. NOT entitlement. INSURANCE. public, nonprofit insurance.
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Well said, Belle! And yes, Hillary’s health care plan is definately better than Obama’s. Perhaps the real reason she stayed in the fight as long as she did had to do with this single issue. I would like to give her that amount of credit. Health care in America has become the priviledge of the uber-wealthy; the latest thing is “concierge MD”, which, for a yearly fee ON TOP of services, entitles you to the best health care and consultations. So those of us who cannot cough up a mere $30,000 per year to join are screwed.
Entitlements? Forgive me, but all Americans are entitled to health care. Insurance, and medical care, should not be the exclusive pervue of the wealthy few.
McCain is among the wealthy - he married into great wealth - and this is not a concern for him. That is the arrogance of the Republicans. They just don’t see, and don’t care, about the rest of the world.
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