White House hopeful Hillary Clinton has vowed no surrender to Barack Obama in their climaxing nomination race, insisting she was the Democrats' best hope against Republican John McCain.
In a front-page commentary for the New York Daily News, the former first lady also said her remarks about Bobby Kennedy's assassination as justification for staying in the race had been twisted out of context.
"Almost immediately, some took my comments entirely out of context and interpreted them to mean something completely different -- and completely unthinkable," she wrote.
"I want to set the record straight: I was making the simple point that given our history, the length of this year's primary contest is nothing unusual."
Clinton, in comments to a newspaper board in South Dakota on Saturday, triggered a firestorm of controversy for observing that Kennedy was shot dead in June 1968, as part of her rationale for fighting on to the end of the primary race.
In the Daily News piece, the New York senator said she was "not unaware of the challenges or the odds of my securing the nomination" with Obama seemingly holding a mathematical lock heading to the final primaries on 3rd June.
But touting her primary victories in big states such as California and New York, Clinton said: "I am running because I still believe I can win on the merits."
"I'm standing up for the deepest principles of our party and for an America that values the middle class and rewards hard work," she said, hailing the hope invested in her candidacy by older women and young girls.
"As the first female candidate in this position, I believe I have a responsibility to finish this race."
Source: By DDNEWS
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