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Obama Says Clinton Can Run 'As Long as She Wants,' Expects Resolution by

June

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Barack Obama said Saturday that Hillary Clinton can stay in the race "as

longs as she wants" and put distance between his views and those of

supporter Sen. Patrick Leahy, who has called for Clinton to quit.

But Sen. Obama of Illinois, the Democratic front-runner, also seemed to

align himself with Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean in

calling for uncommitted superdelegates to endorse a candidate soon after the

final June 3 primaries in order to wrap up the race.

Meanwhile, Clinton is using Leahy's comments as ammo in her continuing

campaign. She's making the issue a rallying cry and fundraising pitch and is

arguing that the candidates owe it to voters to keep the campaign going.

The New York senators' supporters, in turn, have rallied behind her.

"There are some folks saying, 'Well, we ought to stop these elections,'" she

said in Indianapolis Saturday. The crowd groaned in disapproval. "I didn't

think we believed that in America. I thought we of all people knew how

important it was to give all people a chance, to have their voices heard and

their votes counted."

Both candidates now seem resigned to the likelihood that the race will drag

on until Montana and South Dakota hold the final contests June 3.

Obama is leading Clinton by 157 pledged delegates, but it's mathematically

impossible for either candidate to gain enough pledged delegates to lock

down the nomination.

Adding to the unrest is the possibility that Obama and Clinton will split

victories in the two largest remaining contests. Polls show Clinton ahead by

double digits in Pennsylvania, which votes April 22 and offers 158

delegates. But polls show Obama ahead by double digits in North Carolina,

which votes May 6 and offers 115 delegates.

"Nothing is going to happen before the primaries are over in June,"

Democratic strategist Susan Estrich said.

Obama said Saturday in Johnstown, Pa., that he thinks the notion that the

prolonged contest is hurting the Democrats is "somewhat overstated," and

said Clinton has the right to stay in the race. He said he "hadn't talked to

Pat (Leahy)" about his remarks.

But come June, Obama said, the superdelegates should blow the whistle.

"At that point, there are no more contests and I think it is important to

pivot as quickly as possible for the superdelegates . so that we can settle

on a nominee," he said. "We will have had contests in all 50 states plus

several territories. We will have tallied up the pledged delegate vote. We

will have tallied up the popular vote, we will have tallied up how many

states that were won by who. And then at that point I think people should

have more than enough information to make a decision."

That seems to echo Dean's call Friday for uncommitted superdelegates to

announce their endorsements by July 1. With the pledged delegates unable to

give a lock to either candidate, the superdelegates - party leaders and

insiders not bound to a candidate - are poised to decide the race.

Clinton, though, has shown a willingness to take the fight all the way to

the August convention, especially to resolve the conflict over the Michigan

and Florida delegations, which were stripped after those states held early

primaries in violation of party rules.

Clinton won those primaries in January, but neither candidate had campaigned

there.

"I have this old fashioned idea, that the more people get a chance to vote,

the better it is for our democracy," Clinton said Saturday. "There are very

important upcoming contests in Pennsylvania here in Indiana, and others, and

we also are going to have to come to terms with how we're going to count the

votes of your neighbors in Michigan and the people in Florida who deserve to

be heard as well."

In a new fundraising letter, Bill Clinton tells supporters the race is "neck

and neck" and complains about the recent calls to pull out.

"My family isn't big on quitting," the former president writes.

He said Saturday while marching in a small-town parade in Pennsylvania that

"people should just relax and let the process go."

Later in the day , Hillary Clinton sought to soothe those warning that the

prolonged fight will hurt Democrats in November.

"We'll have a unified Democratic party and we'll go on to victory in

November," she said in New Albany, Ind.

Feminism is Jewish.

Gloria Steinem was a Jew. Bella Abzug was a Jew. Betty Friedan was

a Jew.

Friedan, as the writer of "The Feminen Mystique" and founder of

NOW, really

started the modern feminist movement.

"THE JEWISH 100: A Ranking Of the Most Influential Jews Of All Time"

By Michael Shaprio

# 56 Betty Friedan (b. 1921)

Born Betty Naomi Goldstein to Harry and Miriam (Horowitz) Goldstein in

Peoria, Illinois, educated at Smith College, married in 1947 to Carl

Friedan, the mother of three children, divorced in 1969, activist,

best-selling author, professor, a founder of the National Organization

for Women (NOW), the National Women's Political Caucus, and the First

Women's Bank, researcher, journalist, Democrat, clinical psychologist,

and grandmother, Betty Friedan was the most influential feminist of

the postwar era. Deemed by Marilyn French and others as an "initiator

of the 'second wave' of feminism, " Friedan's writings and lectures,

including the highly influential books THE FEMININE MYSTIQUE and THE

SECOND STAGE, synthesized women's views on what equality meant and how

to live and work... When the war against fascism ended two decades

later, four million women lost their jobs to returning GIs. Women were

again told that their place was in the home. The freedom to work to

build up and defend their nation was over. Men would earn the family's

bread. What the boys needed was a warm place to come home to every

night. Ironically, American soldiers had accepted some of the values

toward women (Kinder, Kuche, Kirche - children, kitchen, church) as

the Nazis they thought they had defeated...

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