Thursday
08 May 2008
stand down

“Look, if we had the rules that the Republicans have, I’d already be the nominee.” — hillary clinton, may 7, 2008.
hillary clinton is a fighter.
unfortunately, she’s punch-drunk and doesn’t know enough to stay down. and the people in her corner keep running her back into the ring.
If Clinton presses on to the bitter end, as is her misguided right to do, she will carry the burden of ruining the Democrats’ best chance in years to change Washington, D.C., end the war in Iraq and move the country forward internationally and domestically.
In the longest nominating process on Planet Earth, it is hard to say one state’s results are more important than another’s. When looking for an end point, however, we know it when we see it. Clinton has tenaciously exhausted her options.
Clinton’s campaign is over. She is perhaps the last to know.
it’s odd (but consistent) that clinton bemoans the rules of the democratic nomination process. if only the rules were different. if only barack obama hadn’t come along when he did. if only her inevitability train hadn’t been derailed. she’d already be the nominee.
but she’s not. and she’s not going to be.
hillary’s a fighter, and she went 50 rounds, some of them ugly and bloody.
no one can say she’s a quitter. but the fight is over.
somebody throw in that towel.
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