Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday, based on an Associated Press tally of convention delegates, becoming the first black candidate ever to lead his party into a fall campaign for the White House....How dare AP pay attention to Obama clinching the nomination when tonight is really about Hillary. Tonight is HER night. How dare Barack Obama actually win this thing on the same night that Hillary is planning to steal the limelight from his victory with her own victory celebration? Everyone knows that when you lose the Superbowl, YOU get all the endorsements. And when you lose the World Series, YOU get all the interviews and all the press attention. It's the loser's night, election night. I mean, don't you all remember when Bill Clinton got the Democratic nomination in 1992 and 1996? Bill was such a gentleman and ceded those evenings to his Democratic colleagues who lost the nomination. This is her last night to celebrate, the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza just said on MSNBC. Uh, no it's not. Her last night to celebrate was the night of her Puerto Rico victory. Or she can can pick a random night later this week to celebrate whatever it is she wants to celebrate. You don't get the right to claim the evening your opponent wins the nomination as the night that YOU want to celebrate, so he should go away. It doesn't work that way. And it's incredibly arrogant of her, and naive of the media (and somewhat pandering and oddly protective as well), to suggest it does.
The AP tally was based on public commitments from delegates as well as more than a dozen private commitments. It also included a minimum number of delegates Obama was guaranteed even if he lost the final two primaries in South Dakota and Montana later in the day.
Simply pathetic.
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