A couple of days after saying she doesn't want her name nominated at the DNC Evita has left the option open during a Q&A session at a PUMA rally in California .
Quote:
Mrs. Clinton fielded a question about whether her name would be “placed in nomination” at the convention.
“Well, I'm asked this question every day. And it is a question that I think is a very obvious one to ask. I mean, what will happen at the convention in respect to you know, my putting my name in nomination, the roll-call vote, you know, the usual kind of process that occurs at conventions,” she responded, emphasizing the word “usual.”
She continued:We're trying to work that out with the Obama campaign and with the D.N.C. I happen to believe that we will come out stronger if people feel that their voices were heard and their views were respected. And I think that is a very big part of how we actually come out unified, because I know from just what I'm hearing that there's just this incredible pent-up desire. And I think that people want to feel like, O.K., it's a catharsis, we're here, we did it, and then everybody get behind Senator Obama. That is what most people believe is the best way to go. No decisions have been made.
Clinton Leaves Convention Nomination Open - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog
Meanwhile hubby still has a sore spot on his butt about the way the race card was used against him during the primaries.
Race-card flap reopens Clinton camp wounds - Ben Smith - Politico.comQuote:
“I am not a racist,” Clinton said Monday in a testy interview with ABC News in Monrovia, Liberia, in response to a question that wasn't quite related to that subject. "I've never made a racist comment, and I never attacked [Obama] personally."
When John McCain's campaign manager last week accused Obama of playing the “race card,” the Clintons or their supporters could have provided a powerful rebuttal. Instead they were silent, and in private, some even quietly cheered.
I am finding it hard to believe that BO can unite the Democrat party .....and if he can't then how can he think he can unite the nation ? The advice he will probably ignore is to give Evita her due and her day in the spotlight at the convention . Perhaps (if we are lucky ) it will be her Norma Desmond moment.
edit more on the Clintonoids here
Have the Clintons Gotten Over It? - TIME
RealClearPolitics - Articles - Hillary's Growing Shadow
ABC News: Unity? Hillary Could Be on Denver Ballot