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This is Big Brother here.....it's time to go, Hillary! Obama starts from nothing, but building it on right from the foundation. Hillary walked in a red carpet as the former first lady's husband cannot even win the race. No wonder she was being so agressive and impolite to Obama. Result is right in front of us. Accept it. Well......., it's time to have a good cry, babe!
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The Americans aren't ready for a black President, nor a woman President for that matter.They'll pick the old white guy like they always do and breathe a collective sigh of relief if he turns out to be even slightly less of a complete idiot than the current one.
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It all comes down to whether the US is ready for a black president. There's a real prospect that Mc Cain will win by default.
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HILLARY Clinton`s last-ditch campaign for Democratic leaders to jettison their support for the party`s White House front-runner Barack Obama looks to be coming to the end of the road.

Ahead of tomorrow`s Montana and South Dakota primaries - the last in the marathon Democratic nomination race - even the former first lady`s husband hinted at imminent defeat as the party shifts gears to take on Republican John McCain.

"I want to say also that this may be the last day I`m ever involved in a campaign of this kind," former president Bill Clinton told a rally of his wife`s supporters in South Dakota, ABC and NBC reported.

"I thought I was out of politics, until Hillary decided to run. But it has been one of the greatest honours of my life to go around and campaign for her for president," he said.

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The Clinton campaign said she would hold an election night "celebration" in her home state of New York, not in Montana or South Dakota.

According to New York newspaper Newsday, Senator Clinton is to huddle with advisers and her husband at her upstate home in Chappaqua to monitor the final results and decide whether and how to end her campaign.

"The only real counsel to Hillary is Bill; it`s not a wide circle, so we`re not sure what they`ll do," one of Senator Clinton`s top supporters in New York was quoted as saying.

The Associated Press reported that Senator Clinton`s field operatives in several states had been told to stand down and wait for further instructions. Many have reportedly taken that as a sign the campaign is over.

Senator Obama has said he has asked Senator Clinton to meet with him "after the dust settles" - presumably to negotiate a peace after her withdrawal from the race. "The sooner we can bring the party together, the sooner we can focus on John McCain and taking back the White House," he said.

One last fight?

Senator Clinton`s imminent demise has been regularly reported over the last few months as primary results and other factors have swung against her. But every time she has pulled off some sort of victory that has enabled her to stay in the race.

Fresh from a two-to-one victory over Senator Obama in yesterday`s Puerto Rico primary, Senator Clinton told The Washington Post she may challenge a decision by Democratic leaders on convention delegates from Michigan and Florida.

"We reserve the right to do it. But I haven`t made a decision yet," Senator Clinton was quoted as saying, leaving open the prospect of a struggle all the way to the party`s August nominating convention in Denver, Colorado.

Senator Clinton`s hopes now hinge on halting a slew of Obama endorsements from the roughly 200 Democratic leaders or "superdelegates" who have yet to declare a preference.

According to the Obama campaign, he is now 43 delegates away from the new winning line of 2118, which went up on this week under the contentious deal to reinstate Florida and Michigan despite their violation of scheduling rules.

Senior Clinton adviser Harold Ickes said her camp was still making a case to superdelegates, who have a free vote at the August convention, that she was the best potential president. "We do not believe that by midnight tomorrow that either candidate will have the new magic number," he told MSNBC.

Senator Obama, however, has already pivoted away from his primary tussle with the tenacious Senator Clinton to attacking Senator McCain as the outlines of the general election campaign take shape.

Senator Obama will not be in South Dakota or Montana tomorrow either. Instead, he will address supporters in St Paul - the city Republicans have chosen for their national convention in early September.

Both the venue and the timing, on the night that the five-month primary campaign comes to an end, are rich with political symbolism.

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