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June 4, 2008
Hillary Loses Race - Refuses to Quit
With the Democratic primaries over, at long last, Obama has cinched the Democratic nomination. Obama announced that he will be the Democratic candidate last night.
Hillary, as I have always predicted, refuses to concede the election that she has clearly lost. CNN's Jeffrey Toobin calls it "deranged narcissism". Her non-conession speech is here. Obama tried to call Hillary twice after his victory speech and got only her voicemail.
Instead, gives a speech that's clearly not a concession speech, in spite of the fact that she's already lost. She muddles on in a pathetic, sad charade. If she was once seen as a Machiavellian candidate, she's now viewed as Quixotean. They say 'quitters never win', and 'winners never quit', but if you never quit, and you never win, then you're a fool, an idiot, or worse.
It's possible, I suppose, that she's just holding out to get Obama to help with her campaign debts or possibly as a bargaining chip to get on the ticket as Vice-President, an office FDR's VP said was "not worth a pitcher of warm p1ss.� But it won't work. Obama won the party's nomination fair and square and he'd be a fool to choose her as his running mate. Jimmy Carter called it "the worst mistake that could be made".
What a sad spectacle for a political family that was once so powerful in the United States. How far they've fallen.
Posted by Rob Kiser on June 4, 2008 at 10:00 AM
Comments
"It's part of the national media's attempt to nail Hillary for Obama. It's just the most biased press coverage in history. It's another way of helping Obama."
Posted by: Bill Clinton on June 4, 2008 at 11:39 AM