What Do They Think Of Us?

It's so interesting to read foreign online news articles written about US politics like this one from  BBC:

Also, look at the picture they ran with the story! LOL!
A very different way of treating public figures there than here.

Hillary Clinton will withdraw from the race to become the Democratic candidate for the US presidency, and back her rival Barack Obama, her campaign says.

On Tuesday, Obama gained enough delegates to win the nomination, after the final votes of the primary season.

Clinton has still not admitted in public that she lost the contest, but on Saturday she will do so "and express her support for Senator Obama".

Obama has already announced a team to help select his running mate.

Reports that Clinton was ready to concede came after she made a conference call to senior Democrats in Congress.

At a Democratic Party event...DC..., Clinton will also "express her support... for party unity", her communications director ...said.

BBC ...Washington says that as Mr Obama was claiming victory, Hillary Clinton stunned even her own supporters with a speech that offered no indication that she was giving up.

There is speculation that the delay in conceding was an attempt to position herself as a possible vice-president, our correspondent adds.

Mr Obama's three-member panel to look for a presidential running mate comprises Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John Kennedy, former deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and Jim Johnson.

Mr Johnson performed the same selection task for John Kerry in 2004.

Caroline Kennedy is a surprise probably not only to me. I'm just cringing at the wailing that going to start about her having no qualification Please just click the link to Wikipedia or Google what she's done including running ginormous foundations..and then shut up. Thanks.

It's kind of bittersweet because I wonder if she'd be getting her hands dirty in politics if it were not for her uncle being so sick.

It's being said that Caroline was picked because she's a sympathetic figure who is female and she will be position to give Hilary the axe. Everyone knows Hill does not have a snowball's chance.

Everyone knows that we'll have a person of mixed race become president before we'll let a female.

It's the American way.

Why bother with the charade of pretending otherwise?

On June 4, 2008, the day after becoming the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama named Caroline Kennedy, along with Fannie Mae CEO Jim Johnson, and Eric Holder, to his Vice Presidential Search Committee

DELEGATE COUNT Winner: Needs 2,118 delegates Super-delegates: Obama, 389; Clinton, 282 Total delegates: Obama, 2,154; Clinton, 1,919 South Dakota and Montana: Obama, 25; Clinton, 13 Source: AP at 0230 GMT on 5 June

Comments

[Cyn]

And your comments about Caroline Kennedy -- more rubbish.
Caroline doesn't need my sympathy, yours, or anyone elses.

Anyone whose father and uncle have had their head's blown off in public, had her surviving parent, in this case former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, die before reaching 65, and her only surviving brother die in a plane crash before he reached age 40, gets my empathy. Remember, Kennedy or no, Caroline was hugely influenced by her mother. There's as much--or more influence from the Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis side of Caroline's family. She does not enjoy the spotlight. She kept a low profile for a very long time. She's doing what she's doing in her support of Obama because she's feels it's her public duty and responsibility, not because she's a political animal. Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is in a unique position to effect what she perceives to be positive change for the United States.
And she knows darn well that politics is dirty.

Time will tell. I'm not a supporter of Obama, Clinton, or McCain.
It looks to me that a minority man will be president before a woman.
You can debate the reasoning until the cows come home.

[RJ]

What patent rubbish! Hillary Clinton entered the primary season as the overwhelming fovorite for the nomination. She blew it by running a negatve, unimaginative, fear-based campaign. She assumed that no one would challenge her. What she didn't count on was that a coalition of the young, the educated, and the disaffected would stand so solidly behind Obama. I'm perfectly ready to vote for a woman for President. Just not that woman, who, other than being married to Bill, is no more experienced, but far less visionary than Barack.

And your comments about Caroline Kennedy -- more rubbish. You're talking about a Kennedy here. Politics is in her DNA. It's possible that in Obama she finally sees someone worth "getting her hands dirty" for. And remember, she endorsed Barack before anyone knew Ted Kennedy had a tumor. Caroline doesn't need my sympathy, yours, or anyone elses.