Slog - Comments on Clinton: I Won't Back Down http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down The visuals, and some of the body language, smacked of a concession speech: Hillary, Bill, and Chelsea all on the stage. Clinton thanking her family, her supporters, every last person she could think of, all with a tone far less than triumphant. Chelsea looking decidedly non-euphoric, Bill looking grim. But the actual language was the opposite of the body language—and well divorced from the reality of what's been happening tonight. With results still not in from Lake County, and the race in Indiana still too close to call, Clinton declared victory and suggested she had a mandate to fight on... Copyright 2008 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:25:49 -0800 Wed, 07 May 2008 00:12:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by infrequent won't back down sends a strong message, too. unfortunately, it's by tom petty and the heartbreakers....

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016800 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016800 2008 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:28:05 -0800 Comment by MplsKid . . . and that is why Hillary Clinton should be the nominee.

Ooops! Got ahead of myself there.

]]> MplsKid http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016801 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016801 2008 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:29:56 -0800 Comment by easy I feel kinda bad for her. I can't imagine fighting as hard as she has, and being so close to something so historic, and just missing. I'd be really pissed at Obama for not just waiting 8 years.

]]> easy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016804 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016804 2008 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:31:05 -0800 Comment by Clint If he waited eight years, people would be so fed up with the democrats that he wouldn't have a chance. This way, he can be president.

]]> Clint http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016805 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016805 2008 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:36:30 -0800 Comment by tsm Pfffft. No one is automatically entitled to the presidency, @3. No one.

]]> tsm http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016808 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016808 2008 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:38:23 -0800 Comment by eclexia She didn't "come from behind" in Indiana. If I recall, she came into the state with nearly a 10-point lead. And managed to work it down to below 4, depending how Gary goes.

]]> eclexia http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016809 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016809 2008 Tue, 06 May 2008 20:38:32 -0800 Comment by MplsKid Uh, I hadn't scrolled down and learned that ECB is calling for Hillary to concede . . . never mind my earlier post.

In any event - hoorah! On to the general!

]]> MplsKid http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016832 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016832 2008 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:08:25 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi I hold my breath at the gas pump, to keep from inhaling those damn fumes.

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016875 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016875 2008 Tue, 06 May 2008 21:35:24 -0800 Comment by Mr. X Most people give this kind of speech the day before they concede, but HRC being HRC it'll take a few more agonizingly unpleasant weeks.

]]> Mr. X http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016977 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/clinton_i_wont_back_down#c1016977 2008 Wed, 07 May 2008 00:12:59 -0800