Frankly, Sen. Clinton embarrassed herself with that graceless speech. On the other hand, she further buried her infinitesimally small chances of being on the ticket. So, we all benefit.

is the energizer bunny running for veep? i thought you had to be pregnant to rate a shotgun marriage. Obama'll do what he wants but my vote is no, no, a thousand times no.

You know, the difference between the candidates as far as personal style is concerned, couldn't really have been made more clear than by the speeches they gave tonight. Clinton's was pretty good, except for the fact that she gave it the night she lost the nomination. It would have been nice if she'd acknowledged that in some way. I'm totally not sure what she was doing with that.

Obama did what he normally did, give a really good speech. Best speaker in politics for a while.

Hillary moved her way down the food chain tonight ... she chose not to evolve.

I'm not sure if she thought that would get her the VP nomination, but if she wanted that spot, I doubt this was the way to get it.

I want to give Clinton the benefit of the doubt and all that stuff. She's making it hard to do so. I hope the superdelegates flood to Obama tomorrow and make it crystal clear that it's done and it's time for Clinton to acknowledge reality with grace and then start campaigning for the party's ticket with vigor that is equal to--and integrity that is greater than--what she has shown thus far.

Even though its over I come from seeing Obamas speech and Salon has "Clinton Wins". And this war room article like its even a question anymore.

I guess Salon thinks that the only way a race over is for HRC to concede.

But over it is, whether she chooses to acknowledge it or not, it is so.

Obama, BTW, handed McCain his ass in his speech. Damn this is gonna be an exciting election!

... Mortimer Duke screaming "Turn those machines back on! Turn those machines back on!" every time Hillary speaks.

Please. Just. Stop.

was only aimed at the 10% of democrats that she is trying to convince had their votes taken away by Obama. She wants them to sit out the election so he loses so she can run in 2012. That's all. How are people so blind not to see that? OF COURSE SHE WASN'T GOING TO CONCEDE. That would help Obama. She doesn't want him to win, she wants McCain to win. Clinton supporters, stop pretending otherwise.

Obama has not won anything. He has an arbitrary number of delegates, at least four of them stolen from Hillary, who is ahead in the popular vote. This is almost undoubtedly going to the convention, as it should. Obama has been on one long downhill slide ever since February. It's the voters who want Hillary Clinton and last I heard, the voters still wear the pants. Not, of course, by the lights of the treachery laden DNC or the equally treachery laden MSM, or the truly nasty blogger boyz. Time to wake up and realize that Obama is toast vis a vis the GE if the strong arming continues even one more moment. By and large, Hillary supporters will not accept having the nomination handed to Obama on a purloined silver platter. A large proportion of them will vote against him out of pure anger and disgust, rest assured.

I'd have a lot more respect for Sen. Clinton is she had conceded tonight and lead a rally cry for Sen. Obama and the Democratic Party as a whole. The Clintons are looking rather boorish at the moment. And that's a real shame.

After watching Hillary and Obama's speeches back-to-back, I was struck by the extreme difference of styles. Hillary's speech was all about Hillary, and Hillary's supporters, and Hillary's journey with her supporters. Obama, by contrast, showed tremendous respect to Hillary's achievements, tore into John McCain, talked about the problems facing America, and spoke very little about himself.

If I was at all on the fence -- which I'm not -- I don't think I'd have any trouble choosing which candidate I wanted to represent me as the Democratic nominee for president.

For your own sanity if nothing else, wake up. Sen. Obama is our Democratic nominee.

This has been true since Wisconsin, of course. But, now, you can no longer deny it and remain in the reality-based community.

Alex, please... you've made it quite clear in the tenor of your writings, regarding Senator Clinton, that you either despise or hate the lady. But enough, already. Can you not find something less hateful to do with your time. What do you say? We get the fucking picture (a while ago, for Christ's sake) already.

I really do. Its gotta be damn hard to take. Its got to be an incredible disapointment- and she isn't Bush, I do believe she has a heart and cares. Its just her moral compass that makes her do things that just aren't good.

But not conceding the obvious with more class really keeps me from fully embracing her. It seems to me that at some point not admitting you've lost gets to be alot like not being able to admit you were wrong. I just gives the impression of arrogance.

So, hopefully she'll come to her senses and accept it gracefully, but it looks like she will convince herself otherwise.

I was really prepared to be gracious tonight.

Of course KateTex is spouting her usual nonsense (Take four delegates away from Obama. Notice something? He still wins. Silver platter my ass. He beat her by the rules.) But I expected Clinton to somehow be classier than this tonight.

My Republican friends are laughing, pointing out that this is how they've been describing the Clintons for decades now.

Obama extended an extremely gracious olive branch to Clinton tonight, despite the fact that she basically spit on him in her speech.

Hillary Clinton has lost. She needs to accept this and move forward, because she and Obama have much in common.

Predictions on how Joan Walsh will spin this as Clinton doing the right thing, and Obama not doing enough to bring her into the fold?