{"id":2684,"date":"2008-06-04T23:27:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T23:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/06\/04\/hillary-clinton-will-announce\/"},"modified":"2008-06-04T23:27:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T23:27:20","slug":"hillary-clinton-will-announce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/04\/hillary-clinton-will-announce\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton Will Announce Withdraw From Race on Saturday, Will Back Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to press reports such as <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7436989.stm\">this<\/a> one, and for all I know a zillion others (I&#8217;ve been totally out of touch at a graduation party over on Eat Street), Clinton will announce her move on Saturday.  She had a conference call with party mucky mucks today, apparently.  The announcement will come in connection with an end-of-primary event.  The Obama campaign is pretty much staying out of the way.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr Obama had paid tribute to Mrs Clinton and hinted that she would play a role in any future Obama administration.Mrs Clinton has said she would be &#8220;open&#8221; to the idea of being Mr Obama&#8217;s vice-presidential running-mate.Referring to a brief conversation he had held with his defeated rival, the Illinois senator said: &#8220;I&#8217;m very confident of how we&#8217;re going to be able to bring the party together.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John Kennedy, former deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and Jim Johnson comprise Obama&#8217;s VP selection committee.I, for one, am totally confident that we will be seeing an Obama\/Clinton ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to press reports such as this one, and for all I know a zillion others (I&#8217;ve been totally out of touch at a graduation party over on Eat Street), Clinton will announce her move on Saturday. She had a conference call with party mucky mucks today, apparently. The announcement will come in connection with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/04\/hillary-clinton-will-announce\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hillary Clinton Will Announce Withdraw From Race on Saturday, Will Back Obama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[33],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-Hi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}