According to First Read, Hillary Clinton will cast her vote as a superdelegate for Barack Obama
by TomP
Thu Aug 14, 2008 at 10:13:51 AM PDT
Just a quick diary here. It simply does not help Barack Obama or the Democratic Party to demonize Senator Clinton, as a very few commenters here do with paranoid fears that Clinton will secretly take over the Convention or that she will somehow defeat Obama so she can run in 2012.

I think those fears are just not real. First Read is reporting that Clinton will cast her vote as a superdelegate for .... Barack Obama. It's a great example.

The Obama and Clinton camps have agreed to have Hillary Clinton's name placed in nomination for the roll-call vote at the Democratic convention, according to a source familiar with the discussions.

The source adds that the mechanics of this are still being worked out, but it's "likely" that Clinton will release her delegates to vote for Obama after her name is submitted. Clinton -- who is a superdelegate -- will cast her delegate vote for Obama.


From NBC's Mark Murray
The Obama and Clinton camps have agreed to have Hillary Clinton's name placed in nomination for the roll-call vote at the Democratic convention, according to a source familiar with the discussions.

The source adds that the mechanics of this are still being worked out, but it's "likely" that Clinton will release her delegates to vote for Obama after her name is submitted. Clinton -- who is a superdelegate -- will cast her delegate vote for Obama.

The source also notes that, contrary to previous speculation, these Clinton-Obama discussions haven't been acrimonious at all. This was a joint decision, "and both sides were open to this, and pleased with the outcome."

This news was first reported by the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder

If she does that I will be at least partially wrong in my suspicions.

I'll be happily surprised and happily wrong.

We'll see.

If this is true then people's greatest fears about Hillary will not be realized.

Graham, is it you, or has someone taken over your body?

If it is you thank you for reporting this.

Hmmm...

so is Hillary the VEEP ?

No way

Obama will name his veep earlier than that-most lkely right at end of Olympics the week prior to the convention

OMG!

You said something that I agree with totally!

Sorry Graham, but I could not resist...