Tuesday, June 03, 2008

BREAKING AP: Hillary won't concede tonight

UPDATE: 11:34AM Good God, Chuck Todd is now saying that this may be about Hillary demanding to be VP. Yeah, that's what Obama needs. The Drama Queen family around his neck for the next 8 years. More from Todd: "This is about her tonight, this is about Senator Clinton tonight, and I think the campaign is making that pretty clear." Uh, no it's not. It's about Obama becoming our nominee. Only in Clinton-world alternate universe, the one where everyone has goatees, is the night one guy wins really the night about the other guy losing. This is ridiculous. After one team wins the Superbowl do the cameras switch to the losing team for the rest of the day because, yo know, it's really their night? What is this "poor Hillary" crap that we're seeing, yet again? She can't handle losing, she's very fragile, you know, so we need to give her more time - AGAIN. Because 3 months hasn't been enough time for her to heal. She needs to steal the night that he seals the nomination. I can't believe the pundits are actually buying this shit? What she's doing is stealing Obama's victory night in an effort to again screw him.

11:23 AM UPDATE: MSNBC just reported that Hillary's campaign manager Terry McAuliffe says the AP story is 100% flat-our wrong, Hillary will not acknowledge Obama's victory tonight. Gee, no one could have predicted that. Clinton just released a statement: "The AP story is incorrect, Senator Clinton will not concede the nomination tonight." That means even if Obama gets 2,118 tonight - that's obnoxious.

There's a breaking AP story out that is claiming that Hillary WILL concede tonight, but then the article notes that she's not conceding at all:

"The former first lady will stop short of formally suspending or ending her race in her speech in New York City."
Oh, so she's not only NOT conceding, she's NOT EVEN SUSPENDING HER RACE. Don't believe me, listen to what NBC's political director, Chuck Todd, just said about this:
For the next 48 hours, she is going to sorta control the movements of this campaign a little bit....My guess is we're seeing a two-part strategy here. She will acknowledge Senator Obama's lead. She will acknowledge his likely nomination. But, it looks like, she's not dropping out. The drop-out might actually happen a couple days later
What is the matter with her? And what is the matter with AP and the media? This is exactly what I predicted would happen. She'll pretend to drop out, but she won't concede, and the media and our party leaders will be fooled into thinking "well, you know, for all intents and purposes this is a concession." AP even cites two Clinton officials saying just that:
But for all intents and purposes, the two senior officials said, the campaign is over.
No, read your own story AP. Hillary is going to concede that Obama has the delegates he needs. All she's doing is conceding a fact we all know. What she's not saying is that while Obama has those delegates tonight, probably, he can still lose those delegates before the August convention. That's why she's not conceding. She's still lying in wait.

If the race is over, then end it. My God, she's not only NOT ending the race, she's not even SUSPENDING the race. What has the Clinton team done in the past four months to give anyone any reason to trust their private assurances that it really is kind of sort of over you know nudge nudge wink wink over even though Hillary won't even suspend her race? This is going to bite us in the ass. If she doesn't concede once Obama reaches 2,118 then her followers and her funders don't get on the Obama bandwagon.

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