Obama wins Democratic nomination, Hillary ignores reality

The speech tonight was a remarkable one for a candidate who has lost the nomination, though not remarkable for a Clinton. It was an assertion that she had won the nomination and a refusal to concede anything to her opponent. Classless, graceless, shameless, relentless. Pure Clinton. Her narcissism requires that she deprive her opponent of a night, or a second, of gratification or attention. And she has now won, in her Bush-like version of reality, 18 million votes. Her invitation for her supporters to email their suggestions to her website is pure theater, a way of keeping herself in the spotlight and maneuvering her delegates to demand a second spot on the ticket. The way she is now doing this - by an implicit threat, backed by McCain, to claim that Obama is an illegitimate nominee if she does not get her way - is designed to humiliate the nominee sufficiently to wound him enough to lose the election...she is clearly intent on getting Obama defeated this fall if she is not offered the vice-presidency. And if she gets the veep nod, the way she has gotten it will allow her to argue that a November loss was not her loss. It was his. And she will run again in 2012. She will not go away. The Clintons will never go away. And they will do all they can to cripple any Democrat who tries to replace them. In the tent or out of it, it is always about them. And they are no longer rivals to Obama; they are threats.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/06/the-clintons-th....
I was waiting for Hillary to get to the point in her speech where she makes the turn and says, "It's been a great race, I love you all for supporting me through these trying times, but now we have to unite behind the Democratic candidate for president, Barack Obama!" Except that moment never came. I couldn't believe it. She didn't concede. Is she mental? Her chances of winning aren't theoretically low now, they're nonexistent. The race is over. She lost. What is there not to concede? What kind of maniacal move is this? Yes, I love hard-hitting, driven competitors that never say die. But there are bounds of reason. One of them is that we fight within the confines of the contest. You have to stop hitting your opponent after the match is over. This isn't even hitting after the end of a round. The other boxer has won and gone home, and you're trying to follow him there while still swinging at his head. That's not tenacious, that's mental.

I understand that she wants to negotiate with Obama, presumably for a VP spot. But what was stopping her from doing that earlier? This handwriting has been on the wall for quite some time now. For her to drag this out so she can negotiate a better ransom now does tremendous damage to her credibility. Who believed her tonight when she said she was still staying in the race because of her voters and not for herself? Please! But the problem is a lot of Hillary's supporters are apparently as deranged as she is. The reality is that there is a sliding scale of voters in any camp. Some of her voters who are on one end of the scale will happily go over to Obama starting tonight. Some on the other end of the scale will never vote for Obama no matter what. The problem is that every day that Clinton drags this out, we lose more people on that sliding scale. You lose the ability to convince people further down the scale that she was not robbed, that Obama is fine and that they should be excited enough to turn out to vote for him in November. In essence, Hillary is holding her voters hostage in an effort to negotiate better terms with Obama. And she's losing the Democratic Party more voters every day she does so. She had an opportunity to speak to a lot of her supporters on Tuesday night and bring them into the Obama camp. Instead, she had that steely look of deranged determination and plowed on. She said next to nothing about unity, other than one throw away line that seemed completely disingenuous. She continued to attack Obama when her followers were looking for clues as to whether they should support him or not.

Now, she wants to be his VP? I wouldn't trust her under any circumstances. People keep saying that if he picked her, he'd have to watch his back. I assume they are mostly kidding when they say this (I've said it in jest myself). But there is a real component to this. I wouldn't trust her to make decisions that were best for the team, or the campaign, or the administration if they won. Hillary Clinton has shown, once again tonight, without a shadow of a doubt that the one thing she cares about most is - Hillary Clinton. That's not someone you want on your team.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/hillary-holds-her-voters_b_105077.html

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[Sehara]

If you think so, then you really deserve McCain, and you should have him! Obama is not black,Obama is not white, Obama is just right!

[WheatusOfficial]

undecidedguy,

Is your name like, ironic?

And also, you are completely wrong about everything in life.

He will not benefit from having her as a VP...She is a liability...THAT'S WHY SHE LOST!

She can broker all she wants...she is irrelevant and so are her soccer mom minions.

[Petekiv]

Hillary and Huma are lesbian scum. Huma hates America and wants to kill all white people. You people are so far behind what's up. Forget weiner, it's hillary/huma lesbians. muslims want to destroy America. Sharia is the first step, then murder all non muslims. Walid Shoebat and James Manning can stop these filthy, bathless pigs.

[Reqrezentin]

@bikermandandy

bitch

[bikermandandy]

@Reqrezentin fucking idiot

[2000ChiTown]

hillary just could not believe or accept that she got her ass kicked by obama.

its over hillary you lose !!! lol

[AlabamaSoldier]

All those people screaming in the background behind Obama and Clinton. Look at them.

Every one of them are idiots.

[Reqrezentin]

Look at the negroes in the background, fucking traitors.

[Axmedkoole]

Hillary vs McCain, MILLIONS still believe McCain would win that.

[NobbyKNobbs]

I bet he doesn't win the presidential election though.

[josephdupont]

Obama lied by saying that he was against mandatory health insurance and that she was for it. that cost her the nomination.

[Ralliman]

she was such a bitch that night.