They're giving her time. I imagine if she doesn't do something by the weekend (something, anything), you'll see their patience run out.

Whatever leverage she thinks she has is dwindling away FAST.

Does anyone know what's up with Sherrod Brown?

I think this is the way you do tell Hillary to concede - everyone says: "Obama is the ramalamadingdong" and she can get on board or not.

It beats calls for her to quit - since they seem to upset her so.

Make it inevitable beyond all question.

Hillary truly is a "fighter." She knows no other way. She's trying to fight her way onto the ticket. It won't work.

It's the reason she's such a polarizing figure, and why her presidency would have been filled with partisan bickering.

does it really matter if she rhetorically concedes? shes lost. we can move on without her concession. no one finds it a good show of character when the losing coach refuses to concede the loss to the winning coach, but its still a loss and in the books..so lets just move on. if she wants to be a part of the future, she can join it, if she wants to pout and recede into the past, thats her choice. best of luck to her.

of more interest to me would be when Al Gore endorses?

There is no need to seek a concession speak from Senator Clinton. The nomination train has pulled out of the station, bound for Denver, and it has left Hillary with her rummaged through baggage stranded on the platform back in Loserville.

Good to see these colleagues of Obama and Clinton are willing to come out and finalize this nomination. I'm sure a lot of people are waiting on a certain Senator from Virginia, too.

I just heard a snippit of an interview with rangel on msnbc. He sounded pissed. Apparently, the conference call today is to find out what she is doing and why she isn't endorsing. Kind of interesting.

She's ENTITLED, dammit! And entitled people don't walk away from something the Almighty entitled them to!

OK, back to reality...hey Hillary? DROP OUT BY THIS WEEKEND!

Howie Wolfson was just on Fox talking about how Hillary still has a shot at an upset in August because of her "huge popular vote lead."

Everyone in the world says you lost (except for you and 17.something million voters you've brainwashed/enslaved/garnered.

I tried being nice yesterday and have since lost patience with her and her campaign feeding that bullshit to her supporters!

Obama and all of us need to ignore that woman. Ms Clinton. She tried to blackmail him on TV last night with her disgusting speech. (I have 18 million voters so pay attention to me)

NO male candidate would expect to be given time to decide. They would have been a Democrat and worked for the good of the party, not the good of themselves. What a disgrace for women everywhere that in the end it's still all about her.

membengal: I was unaware that the Dems had a rule that most delegates gets Pres. nomination and second most delegates gets VP nomination. Please point me to that portion of the Democratic rules and by-laws. In 37 years of living, that has somehow escaped me. My bad, apparently. I anxiously await being shown what I have missed.

Another tendentious and mendacious interpretation.

Keep it up and while you are cranking your tiny brain cells to come up with these idiocies, consider this:

What's dangerous for the Democratic Party is that, for many women, the eye of the storm has moved beyond Hillary or anything she does at this point. The offense has turned personal.

They are now in their own orbit, having abandoned popular Democratic Websites that reveled in crude anti-Hillary outpourings -- and established new ones on which they trade stories of the Obama people's nastiness.

But worse than the online malice has been the affronts to their faces.

Tara Wooters, a 39-year-old mother from Portland, Ore., told me that wearing a Hillary sticker around town has become an act of defiance. She recalls one young man telling her, "I'd rather vote for a black man than a menopausal woman."

"We don't hurl insulting, berating remarks at Obama supporters, or at Obama himself or his family," Debbie Head, a 40-year-old from Austin, Texas, complained to me.

Remember Peggy Agar? The women do. They can't stop talking about the Detroit TV reporter who asked Obama a serious question at a Chrysler factory -- "How are you going to help American autoworkers?" -- to which he answered, "Hold on a second, sweetie."

The women are angry at the ludicrous charges of racism leveled against Clinton by the Obama camp -- amplified in the supposedly respectable media -- and projected onto themselves.

Jean B. Grillo, an "over 50" writer in lower Manhattan, was pretty straightforward: "I am so tired as a white, ultra-liberal, McGovern-voting, civil-rights marching, anti-war fighting highly educated professional woman who totally supports Hillary Clinton to be attacked and vilified as racist and or dumb."

Shauna Morris, a 44-year-old lawyer from Largo, Fla., told me, "I am upper-middle class, and I still can't stand him -- and it has nothing to do with race, believe me."

The women talk of being taken for granted by a party leadership that never spoke out on some of the outrageous Hillary bashing -- and despite the close race, joined the early rush to crown Obama.

"Many of us feel slighted," said Lynn Eyrich Harvey, 76, from Los Gatos, Calif. "We feel that years of supporting the party is unimportant, that we are to sit down and shut up -- but be sure to vote Democratic in November."

Passions can change, one supposes, but the women I hear from do not see the rampant sexism, particularly toward older women, as isolated gaffes but as a systemic dismissal of them -- an enormous voting bloc that has been reliably Democratic.

"How Obama's campaign has treated Hillary will not be forgotten," Janet Rogers, 55, who runs a Bed and Breakfast in Medina, Ohio, wrote me. "I will vote for McCain if Hillary is not the nominee. My husband and friends all feel the same way."

Indeed. McCain in '08 has suddenly become a more likely prospect.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_froma_harrop/white_women_take_the_gloves_off

Obama supporters have consistently declared Clinton to be no better than Bush or "GOP-lite."

By extension, they are calling her supporters no better than GOP shills.

Thus, giving 17 million voters great incentive to prove Obama supporters right and vote GOP.

So, keep up the vicious, nasty, winner-by-a-hair-gets-to-pummel-and-belittle-the-loser-over-and-over-and over attitude that Bush and his supporters embraced over the last eight years and you will end up in the same place as he and the GOP have.

Who cares if she drops out now, Friday or next week? The party is unifying around Obama. Yes, he'll need Hillary to do her part, but it won't matter if she takes some time to lick her wounds. Rather than worrying about "when" and "how" we should just get on with the business of winning in November. I refuse to let her b.s. piss me off anymore.

Oh, the drama queen just. cannot. bring. herself. to. walk. off. the. stage.
That's exactly what this feels like. Hillary will milk any continued focus on her as long as possible.

I bet the political cartoonists are very busy right now working to capture the essence of her utterly egoistic behavior.

it's worth noting that no one is yet openly calling on Hillary to concede."

hu...I don't quite see the difference, it is just the polite way...she is obviously under pressure to concede...and rightly so
her own support will defect soon
even Rendell said he will be behind Obama and that no one, even a Clinton can pressure the Nominee about VP..I don't think her yesterday's speech was well received by the members of the party...
we should ignore this,the VP will come up in time in July .. as usual Obama'll deal with it and he has the party behind..today is of great historical importance and we are not saying it enough..this man achieved something amazing and America went for it..woa..the whole world is watching, I am in AWE, it is still not sinking in...this is just great

The longer she waits the less influence she has. Soon she'll be standing with very few supporters saying, "hey where did everybody go?"

thejoshuablog: You're a bunch a racist loons who have no business in the Democratic party.

The women are angry at the ludicrous charges of racism leveled against Clinton by the Obama camp -- amplified in the supposedly respectable media -- and projected onto themselves.

Thanks for again proving how tone-deaf Obama supporters truly are: 'You oppose a black man, so you must be racist, because it can't have anything to do with the fact he's an arrogant, petulent, sneering, inexperienced, shallow, sloganeering fraud who joins racist congregations and surrounds himself with racist and misogynistic supporters who have been viciously demeaning and belittling Clinton long before she even acknowledged Obama as a competitor."

You had the opportunity to actually show what Obama says he's all about, brining people together, by being gracious winners reaching out to the losers, but you just can't resist giving vent to your obsessional Hillary Hatred and pile on with the incessent kvetching about how Hillary just wasn't progressive enough for your tastes and how she just wouldn't stay in the kitchen where she belongs once a man showed her the way.

President Barack Obama

woa

I can't wait for some of the debates in those town halls w/McCain, he will get apoplectic against unflappable Obama..Obama will mop the floor with him

(just having fun..tired of the Bitch from Hell Clinton )
from a woman from her "constituency" BS!!

Looks like gotalife registered a new account under the name of "Nobama."

I call Oilbama, Oilbama, because of his voting for Dick Cheney's Big Oil Energy bill, period.
Neither Hillary or McCain voted for this Bill as neither is in the pocket of Big Oil. I consider Cheney and Big Oil to be evil and the number one enemy of the enviroment and the reason we invaded Iraq. Oilbama is responsible for his vote and as far as I am concerned anyone who votes for Oilbama votes for Big Oil. Anyone wishing to explain to me why Oilbama voted with Dick Cheney in support of his energy Bill, feel free to enlighten me. Otherwise except the Oilbama nickname or shut the f*ck up.

Michael A: And . . . I still don't get your point. What's your point?

The point is how interesting it is that Obama is the so-called candidate of unity, but couldn't unite his own party during the primaries and caucuses and whose supporters engage in non-unifying verbal tactics that are the exact opposite of what he claims is his central defining qualification to be the next president.

Obama supporters can't even play nice when it comes to Clinton and her supporters, but they are going to play nice and build unity with members of the GOP which, again according to Obama supporters, are even worse?

Bush preached unity and bipartisanship and promised he would reach out to the other side and build a cooperative federal government that would put an end to partisan divide.

And yet those of us in Texas who knew better could see from his core supporters that fanaticism was the driving force and would not tolerate cooperation with any opposing force that didn't simply abandon their views and embrace the neocon vision - that bipartisanship meant joining the neocon movement, not finding common ground.

The same can be seen in Obama and his supporters: he preaches unity and accommodation, while they reject anything less than total acquiescence to the Obama vision.

Indeed, even after losing the popular vote in 2000 and winning by the narrowest of electoral margins, Bush acted as if he had won a landslide mandate that obviated any need to accommodate and negotiate with the opposing side.

We all see how well that went and we all called that arrogant and over-reaching.

And yet, history repeats itself, only this time it is a Democrat and the Democrats core supporters who claim the landslide mandate and reject any need for accommodation, negotiation, and cooperation.

BTW, LBJ earned his spot on Kennedy's ticket, despite rabid hatred from both for each other, as did Bush on Reagan's ticket, because of their political clout among the party faithful.

It is a rule of politics, not a party rule, and only an naive and puerile idiot would propose that formal party rules are the only consideration in the world of politics and that politicians are somehow acting out-of-turn in using that political clout for concessions - anyone who thinks Obama himself never did that in Illinois is a fool.

Yet, that is how the "faithful" think, that the normal rules of politics and law don't apply to them, as amply proven during the rule of Bush.

JoshH: Looks like gotalife registered a new account under the name of "Nobama."

I think you meant "getalife," but Obama supporters have consistently shown a childish lack of actual attention to meaningful details, so again no surprise s here in the Echobama Chamber.

Or maybe you've just recognized that Clinton supporters have a life and Obama's supporters not having one need to look to him to give them one.

Hope can't be bestowed upon one, but must arise from inside, from one's own commitment. Those who must rely upon others to bestow hope upon them are weak and pathetic sheep looking for someone to herd them, just the type of people who end up in cults following a "leader" who spins great fanciful yarns that play to their followers' desperate need to have their lives given meaning by another.

membengal: stupid no-editing feature

A more than adequate description of your brain!

Michael A: I don't know whether to laugh or sympathize with your delusions.

Trust me, you are much to immersed in your own delusions to be able to handle the reality that others are experiencing.

Bush was packaged as an inexperienced but likable individual, beyond the influence of Washington politics, who promoted the shallow emotional appeal of "compassionate conservatism," while surrounding himself with the raging radicals of his own party who had grown discontented with the party's leadership as being insufficiently dedicated to certain rightist principles.

Obama has packaged himself as an inexperienced but likable individual, beyond the influence of Washington politics, who has promoted the shallow emotional appeal of "hope and change," while surrounding himself with the raging radicals of his own party who have grown discontented with the party's leadership as being insufficiently dedicated to certain leftist principles.

Both are arrogant and petulent, both sport a sneering and tendentious response when questioned in what they perceive to be a personal way, and both are championed by vacuous and vicious supporters who will readily borrow the tactics of the opposing party when attacking members of their own party while simultaneously preaching the value of (and demanding the maintenance of ) party unity and the odious quality of the opposing party.

The fantasy belongs to you, Michael A, embrace it!

lipme: Enjoy your petty ressentiments Nobama.

I don't even know what "ressentiments" are, lipme.

Perhaps it is a new word you have coined from "resentments" and "sentiments?"

Very clever, you!

Nevertheless, enjoy your petty triumph, lipme.

i really want to see her fix the negativity of her campaign in the collective memory

This is laughable coming from a supporter of one of the most negative campaigns in history - the Obama campaign.

Where's that whitey tape? Awfully quiet now that HRC couldn't prevent Obama from clinching...

I'm pretty sure that NoBama is Hillary. She's just here letting it all out and that's a good thing. It's therapeutic. She needs this. Go on, Hill...I mean, NoBama, let it out... you'll feel better, when it's all out of your system.

Where's that whitey tape?

Yet more racism by an Obama supporter.

This will appeal greatly to white, working class America.

Perhaps you can find another white pastor to adopt the accent of a black pastor and trash Clinton and all her supporters some more - only this time, be sure to put him in blackface.

This will simply underscore that Obama's call for unity that his supporters are so clearly dedicated to!

CarolBG: I'm pretty sure that NoBama is Hillary . . .

I'm pretty sure that CarolBG is in a cult somewhere, but unhappy and looking for another one. Success! She's found the Obamacult.

BGAG