2008 All Over but the Speechifying: Hillary Clinton to Concede Tonight (UPDATE: Or Not)
posted by on June 3 at 8:15 AM
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials said, effectively ending her bid to be the nation’s first female president.
That only took 17 months. By comparison, the indispensable Ben Smith points out, the general election is only going to last a breezy five months.
UPDATE: Or not? This just landed in my in-box from the Clinton campaign:
The AP story is incorrect. Senator Clinton will not concede the nomination this evening.
If I can try to parse and translate here, I think what this means is that Clinton is going to admit tonight that Barack Obama has the delegates to win the nomination. That is, by most normal definitions, a concession.
However, “concede” has a more particular and final ring in the language of politics and so the Clinton campaign is pushing back against the idea that she is formally “conceding”:
The former first lady will stop short of formally suspending or ending her race in her speech in New York City.She will pledge to continue to speak out on issues like health care. But for all intents and purposes, the two senior officials said, the campaign is over.
Fuck all of you. I'm proud of her.
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I still need to see it to believe it.
... this is a stretch. it implies that she won't run in 2012 or 2016.
source?
Oh, nevermind. I see it.
So it depends on what the meaning of "conceding" is? I can't wait until we're finally through with all this Clintonian parsing of language.
@Update
WOOT!
Dang, tsm beat me to it.
If you don't look at her or believe she's real, she'll have no power over you, and fade away.
Ding dong, the witch is dead!
What the fuck? What is this, the 3rd or 4th time this exact story has been written and it has been false?
I'm beginning to think Hillary's campaign starts the rumor just so they can get the press to announce that she's NOT quitting the race.
Whaaat is she doing? Or not doing?
She is truly reality deprived. She thinks she can control her loss, mystically turning it in to a win. Kind of like she did with health care a decade and a half ago.
Well Trevor, she obviously has some control here or else she wouldn't be here.
Reporting has been brought down to the level of psychics. Politico and Drudge and the rest including Slog rush to put up stories and if they beat the rest they let us know they were first. If they are wrong, the story fades into cyberspace.
Now the mainstream press runs stories all time without naming sources.
But like psychics if they are right 2% of the time they give themselves an award.
McG, is clinton going to get the nomination or not?
Well that's about the least surprising update ever.
It just shows the media bias that they want to call the shot and write her off. Take it to the convention Hillary!
The problem is, people keep saying her name three times in front of a mirror. That gives her two more weeks of faux campaign strength.
It's not an urban legend, people. 'Ware! 'Ware!
It's about her debt. If she quits without an agreement to cover her debt, she stands to lose eleven million dollars of her own money. This "I'm in/I'm out" dance may be a negotiating traffic, which may indicate that the Obama camp is not going to pay off her debt for her. Heh.
Also wasn't Obama going to announce that the campaign was over today?
Is this just one more pathetic attempt to preempt/ steal the spotlight from someone she, as a Democrat, should have been rallying behind for the last three months?
"The former first lady will stop short of formally suspending or ending her race in her speech in New York City."
Because you never know... Something tragic may happen to Obama yet, and then she would have to be able to step in...
It depends on the meaning of the word "concede," right?
What we're about to see is if the Clintons (yes, both of them) are willing to put the good of the party (and the country) ahead of their own personal objectives. How--and if--she concedes will tell us a whole lot.
Uhhh...she's a Clinton. So why should it come as a surprise that she's wrestling with the definition of a word that could spell her political doom?
"Concede" = "Sexual Relations"
Get it?
In other news, some so-called Democrats prefer feeling self-righteous to seeing Democratic policies advanced.
RFK didn't get assasinated until June so, you know, anything could happen...
I'M HERE FOR YOU, AMERICA!!!
Andy Niable is exactly right. This is her chance to redeem herself. If she goes out there as a mouthpiece for health care, she can do a lot of good. But that concession needs to be 100% real; she cannot continue to attack her party's nominee, and she cannot continue to claim that she's "really" won it.
I want to hear the words "I lost" or at least "you won".
Congratulations to Barack Obama, our Democratic Nominee for President of the United States. We've never had a better candidate in my lifetime, and I'm looking forward to campaigning in full force for him this fall, and hope that my fellow Americans will do the same.
Onward, forward, upward. Progressive politics will reign.
Number 26 is right. It'd be a shame if anything happened to the presumptive nominee. Wouldn't America prefer to have an experienced, battle-tested, ready from day one understudy, ready to step in at a moment's notice, just in case.
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