Hillary Clinton formally suspended her presidential campaign yesterday, graciously and enthusiastically backing her rival Barack Obama after coming within an ace of being the first woman contender for the White House.
The former first lady ended her campaign for the world's top job at a rally in a Washington museum, where thousands of supporters and staff had gathered for a bitter-sweet celebration. "This isn't the party I planned, but I sure like ...
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Posted by Leo Romero
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While initially this story appears to be factual and well-presented, the general tone of it is rather unfair to and biased against Hillary Clinton, seemingly without reason as she has already conceded defeat in the primaries.
From needlessly rehashing the Monica Lewinsky scandal, to mentioning the price of her Washington DC home to the statement, the authors sentiments are made clear. The author calls her speech on June 3rd "distinctly ungracious" because she did not endorse Obama that night and later states "but angry senior Democrats quickly forced her into yesterday's endorsement" but that is merely conjecture. He never considers that perhaps her supporters were just not ready and open to receiving an Obama endorsement on the night that they watched their hopes evaporate and that she gave them a little time to accept it before throwing her support his way.
I just felt that this article could have been a bit more balanced and if the author wished to throw opinion into is, disguised as reporting, he should have taken a bit more time to think out his opinions and used more discretion in editing out the unimportant fluff.
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