* sigh*

While Senator Clinton fought a good fight, it's about time.

Now we Democrats can move forward and keep McSame from enacting Bush's third term!

I'm not buying it. I'll believe it when she ends her campaign and releases her delegates.

Not suspends. Ends. I hate that I feel like that about a fellow Democrat, but (news flash to Joan Walsh) there are some bruised feelings on this side of the Democratic party as well that need to be healed.

I agree, but I'll be shocked if she does anything more than suspend her campaign. She's jockying for some kind of deal, whether it's the VP spot (ugh) or something else, and she'll hang on to those delegates as long as she possibly can.

She must think of this election and of the future. She either has a future, as a candidate, or she does not.

If she continues her campaign of destruction of a fellow Democrat in the fruitless quest, she will destroy herself. She will never win another election, not for Senator, not for nothing.

If she concedes and does not help, again, she is finished.

If she concedes with grace, and helps Obama, she restores herself in my eyes.

It's up to her.

Maybe the next lion of the Senate is gearing up in New York. Let's cross our fingers and hope for some unity, some new priorities, and the Clinton-Kennedy Health Care Act of 2009.

Hillary suspends her campaign out of necessity - it's hard to keep supporters and staff enthusiastic when you're $20 million in debt and there's no conceivable path you can win. She'll spend the next few months offering only the most tepid "support" of Obama and secretly hoping he implodes before the convention. Come the fall she'll be worthless to Obama so far as campaigning, because 1) she's already said McCain is more qualified to be president and 2) Hillary and her husband are so unhinged, Obama would be nuts to ask those two to speak on his behalf.

Throughout this campaign, the Clintons have confirmed every single right-wing meme about them. They truly are a couple of delusional narcissists who will say or do anything and throw anyone under the bus in pursuit of political power. I hope their devotees will at last see the Clintons for what they really are.

I think she is intelligent enough to read the "signs of the times."

She has to find a way of positioning herself to campaign for Obama and to get her supporters to back him as well. If she can't do that, she will go down as a spoiler.

After 2 years off, she's finally going to return to the job we pay her for. How about that?

Shows how much she cares about the citizens of New York that she'd just completely ditch the job we voted her to do. Screw her. I won't be voting for her again.

Well, thank god we finally got rid of her! Now, we can turn our attention to figuring out whether Obama is qualified for the job or not. Of course, if we come up with "not," we're in a fine pickle, aren't we? As a woman and a feminist, I do have to wonder how much longer women will be asked to step aside for lesser qualified men.

Time to grow up, people.

Obama will be the nominee. He is, on most issues, 180 degrees opposite John McCain. He is the only sane choice for any Democrat.

If you stay home or vote for McCain, you will be responsible for further damaging this country.

Your bruises will heal. Time to let it go.

Not just the end for the presidential campaign, but for any hope she may have had for being re-elected senator. This campaign has been like Night Of The Living Dead movie that is finally ending.

they would have been shown the door a long, LONG time ago.

Why this constant near adulatory consideration for this candidate? There is nothing magic about someone who happened to be married to a president. Especially somebody who has achieved virtually NOTHING, who is on the WRONG SIDE of history with her war voting, and who is so abrasive and charmless.

Well, thank god we finally got rid of her! Now, we can turn our attention to figuring out whether Obama is qualified for the job or not. Of course, if we come up with "not," we're in a fine pickle, aren't we?

Yes. It would have been nice if we'd spent more time discussing substantial policy and qualifications issues, rather than yelling at each other about nonsense such as what one's pastor said years ago.

hard.

hitting.

journalism.

He's qualified, more so than Senator Clinton.

Look at the way he ran circles around her and managed scandals, while she remaind flat footed, ham handed, and generally unprepared for a fight.

Goodness I'd hate to think how her chronic exhaustion might make her mispeak on a three am phone call.

No, we need a person with the skills to lead on day one, and that person after this exhaustive campaign was clearly not Senator Clinton. Not that she wouldn't have been better than McCain, but clearly Obama was the stronger candidate, and better organized politician on the ground.

Politics is about convincing one to your side, something Senator Clinton did an excellent job at, but which Senator Obama did a little bit better.

She's not being asked to step aside, she's being asked to accept reality. There's no shame or scorn in that, out of respect for her, people have held their tounges far more than they would have for another candidate.

Billary is giving me a headache.

I don't even think "the media" understands ...

WE'RE SICK OF BILLARY!

NOW QUIT AND GO AWAY!

And BTW, Dear Mrs. Clinton ... see a shrink .. please!

You've got a severe case of NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER.

Well, that's the thing. Both Hillary Clinton and her husband have helped a large part of the Democratic party get where they are. They have campaigned tirelessly for other Democrats, and though the strategies of Carville and Penn and McAuliffe proved to not be working for the party in the long run the Clintons had a lot of goodwill towards them and not without good cause.

This is of course what makes Bill Clinton's words ring hollow when he says that his wife was not given her due respect, and was not treated as a serious candidate. Hillary Clinton has been treated with extreme deference, with merit perhaps, but far beyond that which Edwards received, and far beyond what any other candidate would.