This is awesome. Now how about ALL OF US get over it, too.

Great way to pass the torch.

This is really cool..until we see after the convention that this did nothing whatsoever to satisfy the PUMAS. I don't think that anything Obama does, short of giving Hillary his spot, will make her supporters happy...

I think this is the best decision. Hillary's dead-enders get to vote for her and get to see her "officially" lose, and it also takes away a huge rallying point for said dead-enders. I just hope all super-delegates vote Obama just to ensure that there is no funny business. I mean if it's largely ceremonial, I think a fair number of her delegates will vote for her even if she asks them to vote for Obama, and I just hope that Obama delegates don't to anything ridiculous and vote Hillary "to show the party is healing". That could be a disaster.

Why do I feel like the Obama campaign just provided teeth and venom to the viper?

I think that this is a fine idea. I think that the doomsayers are exaggerating things. I also agree that this will not satisfy the really serious PUMAs, but that is beside the point. Those folks are so tiny and irrelevant a minority that it is not worth the trouble of chasing after them. Good to see that both sides were able to act like grown-ups in order to achieve a desirable outcome. It gives me hope for the future to see mature reason prevail over sophomoric mind games.

This is also sure to rankle a few of the "progressive" blogs out there (i.e. Amato's AmericaBlog) who were (and still are) virulent anti-Clinton hatefests.

Hillary will encourage her supporters to vote for Obama.

~ Jess

Nothing will placate the Clintons. Particularly after the embarrassing leak of the memos. Bill was running the show. That's what we found out. Bill, not HRC. Legacy of former Prez shattered, foundation of her run on "experience" shattered.

It's futile. He could hand her the nomination and it still wouldn't be enough.

Reconciliation is never easy.

I hope this agreement ends the conflict, but there's always some people who never will be satisfied. Still, those people is a small minority.

PUMA's: back off!

I'm sorry, but half the comments in this thread are completely depressing. I've been an Obama supporter since day one, it was a tough primary, the Clintons pissed me off repeatedly, but it's over. Hillary has been extraordinarily classy since she conceded and it's time to give her her due and MOVE ON. I've never seen so much sore winning in my life.

There's no "evil plan" -- can we get back to focusing on the goddamn Republicans so we can win an election? Hillary has millions of loyal supporters and we can use their tenacity and their strength. The PUMA nutjobs can go to hell. I, for one, am really happy over this deal. Quit dwelling on the past and change your country.

Can't you people just somehow get over this?

Me neither. You don't have to be a damn Nostradamus to hear even now the loud boos that Hillary will draw out from her twisted malcontents when she "urges" them in her irresolute dog-whistling way to support or at least tolerate Obama. Nor does it take a shaman priest to foresee the catty smile on her face when she drinks in the glory of those delicious boos. Or to foresee their explanation that shitting on the convention was a really necessary step vital to all, that the boos were healthy and made for a stronger Party, and that it just couldn't have been stopped anyway. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

You want change. Change against politics as usual, discrimination against ethnic racism, movement toward global environmental issues. Yet the support group of change still within it's group as I read has some of the most egregious sexist comments that exist. Can't have it both ways "guys". I'm assuming the women here didn't comment on the small size of your mail anatomy, or the size of Obama's body parts when referencing his politics.

I for one have seen my mom and sister put up with these, sorry guy's, stupid male comments and those of us that look for equity, don't abide by going for the cheap shot and making such sexist comments as commenting on the size of a woman's rear, expecially a so competent. It's an OLD boy ploy and nothing toward change. Frankly it speaks to his small anatomy, and insecurity.

I am sure she is going to say, but I win...
Only my votes count...Votes from caucuses don't count. I won the big states...Only the big states matter...
This is outrageous...

A couple of points and a comment.

The TV pundits will be able to engage in a boring over/under game of how many votes does Hillary Clinton get, and what is the meaning of the actual number of votes?

In conventions of 20 years ago, with more than one nominee, there was a lot of time wasted with the nomination speech, the "spontaneous" demonstration parade of delegates after that nomination speech, and the string of "I second the nomination speech" done by the favorites of the nominee even if the nominee had no hope of coming in first or second. That frivolity can chew up hours of prime time. Has it gone the way of the dodo in this era of a certain nominee?

Comment: 48 hours after these nomination speeches take place, no one will give a damn what happened with the Clinton vote.

I think BronxInTN calls it right.
And I have a hard time reading some of the paranoid comments about Hilary somehow getting the nomination. Not going to happen. And if she did somehow politic, manipulate and scheme her way to the nomination anyway, I think I'd have to vote for her. After all, who wouldn't vote for Wonder Woman (and that's what she'd have to be to pull that off).

This is a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. I've always lived with the idea, that I might as well of done something to be damned about.

If he doesn't allow her name to be nominated, then the PUMAS will go bonkers at the convention, stirring up all sorts of $#!+. So this is supposed to shut them up.

The problem is, last week Obama authorized the FULL count of the Michigan and Florida delegates. All she needs to do is to extort some super-delegates into changing there votes, and Holy $#!+ Batman.

scobiewon the problem with that is all her super's (well a majority I would say" have now backed Obama and will vote for him. Michigan and Fl were both given full votes also in the hopes of party unity. MY GOODNESS if people don't see this guy is going OUT OF HIS WAY to make things right than who does. For that matter SO IS HILLARY. They both realize what is at stake and I commend them for their work. LET'S TAKE THE WHITE HOUSE.

P.S.F*&@ PUMA

I have never seen such paranoia; outside of the Republican Party anyway. Answer this, oh tinfoil-hat wearers: if Sen. Clinton is such an all-powerful, magnificently omnicompetent politician - why didn't she WIN the primaries? Why would she put herself in the position of getting the nomination under such circumstances as to guarantee a loss in November?
The only way for Sen. Clinton to get the nomination now and still have a chance of winning the presidency would be if Sen. Obama's campaign literally collapsed between now and the convention. I really don't think that's going to happen. And as a supporter of Sen. Clinton during the primaries, I don't want to even think about such a mess.
If this is the way you guys act when your candidate wins, I really don't want to contemplate what would have occured had Sen. Obama lost! AmericaBlog at its most rabidly anti-Clinton would be civilized in comparison.
You guys won - learn to live with it!