Captain Ahab Clinton will stop at nothing in her quest for the Great White Whale of the Presidency. Including, apparently, going down with the ship.

It's just tough bluster--she's letting her advance staff go.

I think some of her superdelegates need to switch MacAuliffe was on Morning Joe talking big shit, that this isn't over.

Yes, Dr. Evil, you can court Obama's delegates AND ask for a 'MIL-yon' dollars.

It is beyond intervention time . . . Now it is mercy killing . . . Soon to be . . . Protecting future legacy.

We will be reading that she could be the DEM nominee for 2008 a decade from now.

That Stassen comment is right on! Who would have thought? -------- I don't think she can help herself. She is, as McClellan said about GWB, in "permanent campaign mode" and can't stop those gears from running and controlling everything, including her mouth apparently!

If I'm not mistaken, she's had super-delegates switch to Obama, but there hasn't been a single Obama supporter switch to her. She seems to be living in her own little fantasy world, anymore.

Meanwhile, we've GOT to get started on the general election. McCain is making plenty of gaffes, but the media still want to focus on Clinton. An egotist's dream, I suppose, but not good for the party or the country.

When I was at the Iowa caucus I was talking to someone who (like me, natch) was an Obama supporter. She was a young woman, either just out of college or in her last year or something.

Anyway, she told me that even though she was voting for Obama, she really admired Clinton. In particular she thought Clinton was poised

I wonder what she thinks of her now.

Jeez people, cut her some slack (God, I can't believe I just said that). The last elections are tomorrow and she's got to say something about why people should vote for her.

This is quite litereally the only thing she could say in response to the question why should anyone bother to vote for you at this point? You know short of the truth, which is pretty academic at this point.

That said, it is unfortunate that her ever credulous followers, like HillaryClinton08, will buy into this theory and further postpone their trip down the Kubler-Ross trail.

I'm confident she's finishing up.

First, the money is drying up. The big donors have nearly stopped, and the small ones will. She doesn't want to spend the whole Clinton fortune on this vanity project. Plus, once it's clear that Bill isn't going back to the White House, his ability to raise another fortune will drop rather rapidly.

Second, her most valuable political backers are sensible party people. Rangel and Shumer see the long view. Emanuel and Gephardt and Rendell and Bayh do as well. They're ready to be campaigning for the nominee, and they want her doing the same thing. If she doesn't move on her own, they'll advise her that she needs to get it done or they'll switch in a way that hurts her further. My guess is that they don't have to tell her.

Third, her Sunday surrogates weren't really making a case: they were just demonstrating what the campaign is going to say from now until 2,118. They're proving that she really had a principle about staying in until it's over--so they don't have to admit they were hoping for a meteor or just being stubborn. Three weeks ago, they all said "three more weeks," and I think they've been giving her their best game for just that long.

And finally, I think both the Senator and the former President will, in the end, do what's right for the party, the country, and the planet. And the end is very close.

The real reason she's talking big smack is that she wants to squeeze every last precious penny out of her supporters before she is forced to concede. Who else is going to pay Mark Penn? It's not coming out of *her* pocket, if she can help it.

Hillary Clinton is the Black Knight.

It is only a flesh wound...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eMkth8FWno

NCSteve, the ever-wise....

I've just got that feeling, you know the one, where you've had to sit on a hard chair in a meeting for an hour too long, and your butt is numb?

That's how this primary season is making me feel.

But you're right to point out that this is larger than Hillary's views on ... anything.

Having had all of these state primaries has set us up for a 50-state set of volunteers, donors and campaign staff who are now better for having had the practice. I know I've certainly learned a lot, as this was the first time I've been involved in any serious way (volunteering time, giving money, even running as an Obama delegate!) in presidential politics since JFK ran. It's been a lot of fun, and hanging out with the cool people here at TPM has been a privilege.

Now. On to Montana and South Dakota, so I can get some feeling back in that part of my anatomy I mentioned finally.

Obama '08. Onward and upward.

As AP reported in the aftermath of PR. She has three options:

1)Concede immediately and endorse Obama
2)Take it to the convention
3)Suspend the campaign and wait for a lightening to strike.

She has no traction even among her own supporters to take this to the convention. I think she will "suspend" the campaign, wait for a week or two before endorsing Obama.

Perhaps Hill should solicit support from every woman her husband has cheated on her with.

Now THERE is a metric that WOULD allow her to surpass Obama in 'POPULAR' VOTES.

Anyone who thinks that Hillary is going to concede without attempting to have a floor fight at the convention is as delusional as she.

Hillary has no intention of conceding just as she had no intention of taking her name off that MI ballot even though she SAID it wouldn't count. This is classic Clinton triangulation.

What is going on here is that she is being allowed to claim she has the most votes and that in a democracy the winner is the one with the most votes. This flat out is wrong when it is a NOMINATING PROCESS by a PRIVATE political party!

No one, not even Howard Dean yesterday told Blitzer that votes do not count that this is about delegates. Until someone starts saying that this entire situation is going to fester and explode because her supporters truly believe she actually has some claim on the nomination and she does NOT.

This is a disgrace. The issue is the no backbone superdelegates they are the ones allowing this to drag out. Which is why Richardson said what he said most likely. Hillary is still threatening people which is why Richardson said they need to take a risk.

Did anyone stop to think what risk he could possibly be talking about? Why would endorsing Obama at this juncture be a risk to a superdelegate?

She is going to the convention folks. Pelosi may be able to keep it off the floor and kill the entire process in the credentials committee but if not..we are witnessing the Clintons once again take the Democratic party down.

Drag us all through the muck and mire for their own personal greed and ambition.

They spent a fortune defending Bill from that bodily fluid on the blue dress...HARD FACTUAL evidence folks, undisputable...and what did the Clintons do? They fought it tooth and nail to the bitter end and dragged the entire nation right down the semen path with them, to the point that children all over the country asked their parents what was oral sex and the morning paper had all the tawdry details on the front page!!

They did that when they were completely WRONG. They spent truckloads of donors money and left the White House deeply in debt. So, anyone ANYONE who thinks they will not use their HUNDREDS of MILLIONS now to tear down this party in pursuit of Hillary's and Bills need to go BACK to the white house is CRAZY.

Reverend Pfleger was right..Hillary and Bill feel ENTITLED. Hillary has already polarized this issue on the basis of race, she is making this nomination into a friggin civil war all because she believes because she is white and MRS Bill Clinton she is ENTITLED. They already have Ferraro out their talking that affirmative action smack, focusing on Obama's race withOUT ever once owning up to the fact that it is HIllary who is the affirmative action candidate and has been from the start.

The Clintons will NEVER concede this is a brawl folks so get ready to sling mud or duck cause the shyt is hitting the fan...

To exit the race with dignity assumes she had any to begin with.

Why would Superdels now switch back to Clinton when most of her followers are now backing McCain?

"I can court Obama's Super-Delegates to switch"

And I can try and poop gold, but we both know neither of those are happening.

Hillary will be the nominee. How do I know this? It could end only one possible way for her. Ever see the movie Carrie? The Denver convention will play out like the prom scene from the film.

Dear Hillary: please break the cycle of abuse. Whatever abuse you yourself suffered in the past, you have now become the prime abuser of your party, and even your own devoted followers. One suspects that they, too, have abuse in their personal histories; what you are doing will just add to their unfortunate cummulative experience, once they figure out that they have been used for your gain.
Is this the example of ethics, by the way, you want Chelsea to follow in her life? Set her free by accepting responsibility for your own mistakes.

Whew!

According to HuffPo, Hillary is likely to suspend her campaign, and endorse Obama tomorrow or the next day.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/02/clinton-summons-top-donor_n_104715.html