The Last Hurrah.
The End of the Clinton Era.
Adios.
You went out a loser.

She still wants to raise some money selling her new TShirt, at least she has good marketing advisers.

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3484/hctshirtskw8.jpg

(I know I posted this before but it's at the end of the thread and no one is going to see it and I still think it's a good joke)

Hillary Clinton just dropped a massive swirly on the most historic night in African American political history. What a disgrace...

no post on obama's speech. odd, that.

Heh. I just watched McCain's speech, and it had bobdole written ALL over it.

This guy is SO gonna get pwn3d by Obama.

As for Hillary's speech...yawn. Who cares if she concedes at this point; she's not the nominee. I was watching the faces of people in Obama's crowd as he praised her. Very few smiles and lots of people holding their hands at their sides at applause lines. Like I said, she's not going to be the VP pick.

That one guy is ALWAYS behind her....

Ok, so she didn't have to concede tonight. But did she have to not concede in such a divisive way?

She served red meat to her supporters to feed their sense of grievance: the phony popular-vote math, the swing-state argument, the count-every-vote nonsense. Is it any wonder they started chanting "Denver! Denver!"?

9:03 pm PDT, no speech from the presumptive nominee on TPM. Their front page is, of course, all about Sen Lostit.

I'm almost 100% certain that the primary reason for her staying in the race at this point is so she can recoup the money that she loaned her campaign. For weeks, she's used her "victory" speeches to ask for money, and now, even though her campaign has ended, she's still asking for donations.

Once she gets her millions back, she's out. Until then we just have to hope that her supporters remain as tenacious with donations as they are on the blogs...

Unfucking believable.

You won't make a decision? Don't worry the Democratic Party has taken care of that for you.

If Obama takes on HIllBillary he should be declared insane.

Clinton's getting pwned by the Larry King panel.

"Classless" indeed!! David Gergen, about as fair a commentator as they come, hit it on the head when he compared Hillary's call for supporters to tell her what to do with Nixon's "Checkers" speech. The woman is a disgrace to the feminine cause she pretends to champion. I keep thinking the Clintons can't sink any lower, and they keep surprising me. Effing amazing!!

Of course, if as a result of Hillary's intransigence, McCain wins and he has the chance to appoint more right wing judges to the supreme court, Hillary won't be there to pick up the pieces for women who are let down, by regressive rulings.

Lanny Davis is still not shutting up.

Awwwwwwfffffffffffucccccccccckkkkkkkkk!

Barack Obama picking BILLARY Clinton as vice president will be like me picking a spitting Cobra as a room mate!

David Gergen, about as fair a commentator as they come, hit it on the head when he compared Hillary's call for supporters to tell her what to do with Nixon's "Checkers" speech.

Quite frankly, that is more ignominious a reference than Tubin's "deranged narcissist" comment. Unless, of course, you couple Tubin's comment with film at 11: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWaL1XnUPN0

If Clinton conceded graciously tonight, I was all set to embrace her and even accept her as our VP.

No more.

I don't want her anywhere near the ticket. And I now despise her on a level equal to that of Bush and McCain.

THIS

FOR

Tucker Carlson... no bow tie, but still the most rancid goiter on television.

Okay, I am usually among the first to defend the TPM folks but this is ridiculously hacked reporting. Biggest friggin political event to happen to this country in quite some time and nothing from TPM. No 'Obama Clinches' post, no Obama speech post nada. May need to move over to Kos.

Will someone please stuff a sock in Lanny Davis.

It really doesn't matter which orifice, but the mouth is preferred.

It was really really loud. I coundn't even hear him declare victory after "I can stand before you and say" because everyone went nuts. I had to read it off the big screen in the middle! And that happened a lot through out his speech. It was like people would go into a lul for a minute, and then realize, 'oh wow, I am here! On this night!' It certainly felt historic.

1:05am EDT TPM posts Obama's speech!

In honor of it's venue, I dub this "The Hillary Clinton Bunker Speech".

I have to say that I'm appalled by Hillary's speech. I thought she would finally confront reality and congratulate Obama for clinching the nomination. Boy, was I wrong! Let's see...

1. Didn't acknowledge that Obama won. Check.
2. Gave no sign that she was going to suspend her campaign. Check.
3. Undermined Obama's victory by repeatedly doling out the trope that she was the popular vote winner. Check.
4. Continued to argue that she would be the stronger candidate against McCain. Check.
5. Signaled that she was willing to go all the way to Denver. Check.

Did I miss anything?

I understand that this was a close election, and I empathize with those who strongly support Clinton, but at the end of the race there's a winner. And that winner's Obama.

After her speech, I'll admit I was scratching my head. I sniffed my cocktail to make sure no one had spiked it with some reality reducing substance. Nope. It was just two parts Seagrams and one part Sprite. What puzzled me was this-- just what in the hell was she campaigning for? Some of my friends said 2012--or 2016 if Obama wins. Others said for VP. The only thing that seems reasonable is that she is angling for VP, but does one do that by threatening to create a coalition government? I suppose so if you are committing a coup d'etat.

In the final analysis, I'm left colder than ever about the so-called "dream ticket", which I suppose populates the dreams of those consigned to purgatory--at least, insofar as her strong-arming tactics suggest. But I'll sleep on it, and with the fog of alcohol and anger receding, I'll reassess my opinion on the matter.

Remarkable--what Jeff Toobin described as "deranged narcissism".

This speech--its very essence--was predicted on May 23rd:

Why Hillary should not be VP:

From "Head of State"

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/head-of-state-reasons-that-hillary.html

Friday, May 23, 2008

Head of State: The Reasons That Hillary Should Not Be Vice President

Regarding Hillary Clinton as Barack Obama's running mate:

Originally, this seemed to be a potentially plausible choice--and if presented in the following way, could turn her divisive campaign into a potential coup as a VP candidate. The thinking was the following:

Hillary has run a divisive campaign. Now, just as the nation should mend its divisions in favor a greater unity that would serve the greater needs of our country, so now they would explicitly put these divisions behind them, in the interests of the unity that this nation, after a bitter and divisive Administration, is so in need of. This would serve as a powerful and vibrant example of the very ability to unify that Obama both offers and represents.

However, this would require a candidate that was willing to take such a position of relative shared selflessness in the interests of a greater good. While the Vice Presidency certainly offers its honors (now far beyond the "warm pitcher" of John Vance Garner's famous phrase) and positioning for later Presidential aspirations, such a plan would require the ability to think in terms of a shared effort based on the betterment of the nation, rather than in more grasping, combative and singular terms.

The Clinton camp's behavior over this past week has made such a positive scenario clearly untenable, showcasing the same characteristics that have signified her campaign throughout its long, chaotic march--its contradictions of previous statements when such changes have a slight possibility of adding a week or two of vitality, its sudden and implausible use of populist guises and specious historical parallels for transparently opportunistic purposes, its near-hallucinogenic transmogrifications of personality and central bases for further continuation,
and the central campaign tendency to place personal attainment over virtually all values that lay in its path.

These characteristics--self over nation, positioning over a consistent presentation of position, values and even self, the willingness to put personal viability over the need to transcend and transform the vast wreckage of state and international relations that remains at this critical time--are as present now, at a moment when wisdom rather than a remorseless, obdurate desperation could fill this gap, as they have been throughout much of the campaign. They would continue to make themselves present during a Clinton campaign for vice president, complicating, diminishing and often distracting from, in trivial internecine battles, the message of unity and change.

Perhaps Clinton could adopt a more unifying, integrated and less grasping position on the VP subject. However, thus far, the actions of the Clinton camp have made it clear: It's time to clean the slate. Hillary Clinton should not be the Vice Presidential candidate.

Cite:

Head of State

http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/05/head-of-state-reasons-that-hillary.html

Eh. I watched the first few minutes, and it looked like she was being gracious and complimenting Obama quite a lot.
She can't be all down and defeated in front of a crowd of supporters like that, can she?
Granted, I didn't have the patience to watch the whole thing, but it seemed off to a good start.

Being called "deranged" by Jeffrey Toobin is like having Herve Villechaize accuse you of being "vertically challenged".