It depends on what your definition of Concede is, here is what happened.

[Boz]

AP was reporting Terry McAuliffes comments on the Today show.

"Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination"

In a normal world that means she concedes Obama wins.

That is not what he meant, and not what they were referring to, you will note it does not and Terry did not say she concedes to Obama being the Democratic Nominee.

It is the parsing that the Clinton campaign, Both Bills and Hillarys and even his presidency, has done that lead to this.

The definition of is is is and the definition of concede is concede.

She will however concede by thursday, at a DNC fundraiser, but she wont do the right thing tonight and she will spend the next 2 days bargaining.

[VolcanoJen]

1. Why is everyone mischaracterizing the AP story?

The AP story is not based upon what Terry McAuliffe said this morning on "Today." The story is based upon two anonymous Clinton senior officials and sounds like new, reported information rather than what McAuliffe said, or else the story would name him as the source.

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1811421,00.html

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.

Most campaign staff will be let go and will be paid through June 15, said the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge her plans.

The advisers said Clinton has made a strategic decision to not formally end her campaign, giving her leverage to negotiate with Obama on various matters including a possible vice presidential nomination for her. She also wants to press him on issues he should focus on in the fall, such as health care.

[Boz]

2. Thats the revised AP article not the original, note the final line is the pointer beside the wording

[HeraldSquare212]

4. She's going to tell him what issues to focus on? Chutzpah.

[Brotherjohn]

5. I agree, and was about to post as much.

I don't think the AP story says she'll concede... in fact it explicitly quotes Clinton officials as saying she will NOT concede the nomination to Obama tonight. It says she will concede he has more delegates. That doesn't mean she can't hold out hope and keep trying to convince superdelegates to go to her or to switch allegiance.

I think she's going to make a "historic" speech claiming to be the first woman to "win" a presidential primary (based on popular vote and her reasoning), and congratulate Obama for ending up with more delegates, and then hold out the possibility of a challenge to bargain for whatever she wants. The campaign is "for all intents and purposes... over" (AP's words), but why continue campaigning when there is nothing going on until the convention? Indeed, how? She's deep in debt and the only "constituents" she needs to campaign to now are a few hundred superdelegates. And she can (and will) do that by phone.

[havocmom]

3. Clinton + 'istas parsing words again...

equals basically the strategy she outed in her remarks re RFK

Is she holding the door open for a win by default booby prize as the weeks roll by?