Wow! Fineman on KO...

[Doityourself]

Some dieharders around Clinton called the Senate and told some senators like Schumer and others to call her and tell her to let it go! All and all 8 senators gathered by phone to talk to her...

Also, per KO, 23 congressional members had to tell Clinton they had to move on and she needed to release them...which she wasn't doing.

Man oh man..if not, she probably wouldn't have given up!

[LakeSamish706]

1. What the hell, why would she still be reluctant to get out? n/t

[lisa58]

2. I'm Wowing too!

they know this is bordering on (dare I say it?)

[malaise]

3. She's conceding on Friday and endorsing

Barack Obama...at last...PHEW!!

[my2sense]

4. She was in deep denial......

[Doityourself]

5. I'll say..I also think she had a split in her top aides..some wanting to fight on & others, saying

let it go...

[my2sense]

6. That sounds right

but you would think she would have chosen to remove herself without being booted out. I'm just glad she is moving on.

[malaise]

7. Rosen said she was not a bargaining chip

She was a Democrat. Pity she didn't have the sense to leave before the elected Democrats told her to get out of the race. It was always going to come to this.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. An Intervention..... what we have been talking about for weeks or months

Sounds like it was very strongly done today by even her allies.

[malaise]

12. What the hell did she expect

She read this as badly as she read her vote for the illegal war

[Ichingcarpenter]

18. I don't expect much this Friday

She could have nailed in last night and enhanced her legacy forever, even gotten her VP spot maybe. We all said it could make or break her career on what she did. She did not chose wisely

[Ichingcarpenter]

22. Two events announced now, one on Friday and one on Saturday

Well, I expect Friday will be Hillary and Saturday Hillary and Obama?

[roguevalley]

32. people have said that she badly misunderstood her level of support.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. She's done harm to women

She's behaved like a dithering teenage girl, hormonally afflicted, who's been told to clean her room, pitched a fit, and then goes into a sulk because she's told she'll be grounded if she doesn't clean that goddamn room RIGHT NOW.

Her behavior reinforced every bad stereotype that's hounded women for far too long - that she "needed room" to be able to absorb the shock of her defeat. What utter bullshit. When did any male candidate ever "need room" to concede graciously and bow out?

It's time for the Clintons (and, sorry, Bubba, but you're not going to be able to cull the new batch of White House interns) to exit stage left and be party elders. Their party is over.

[aquart]

11. I have nothing polite or clean to say here.

But yours is the mind that needs to be washed out with soap. And Chlorox. Maybe lye. Drano. Raid Ant and Roach Killer.

[Carolina]

33. lye and drano, you're one twisted person

HRC's petulant, childish behavior in her quest for power reflected poorly on her and indeed by extension, on women.

Lousy campaign, kitchen sink, never taking responsibility, never admitting errors and not facing reality with grace. HRC = the Glenn Close character in Fatal Attraction.

[Fleshdancer]

14. I disagree

She's behaving like someone who had the political battle of her life and is now taking a few days to decompress and to think about what she should do next. Is this a "female" thing to do? I know I do this during hard times, but if this is a trait unique to women, then I think it should be celebrated, not mocked. After the past 8 years of knee-jerk republicanism, I can't be the only one who thinks this way.

Disclaimer: I voted for Obama.

[alstephenson]

16. I agree with you, GloriaSmith. eom

[angstlessk]

15. tangerine...get over yourself...Hillary lost..and she is trying to figure out

how the presumptive nominee in 2007 can bow out gracefully in 2008...it is JUST THAT!

[leeroysphitz]

23. Hey, Tangerine LaBamba. GDP is still open and is the proper place for ugliness of this sort.

Please do not use GD as your litter box.

[seabeyond]

30. i think so too. finally get a woman out there, she whines excessively about sexism

uses her gender and doesnt know how to bow out gracefully..... i too have issue about this particular female being our representitive

[Carolina]

35. I agree with you

totally, completely and unequivocally :hi:

[annabanana]

37. She hasn't hurt anyone but herself & Bill. . . .

She might have if she stayed longer...But it's over now. It is not such a tragic blow to womankind. We are stronger than that.

[robinlynne]

44. I don't think so. 50% of the world is women. One woman does not women represent.

[aquart]

10. Were they all men?

[Doityourself]

13. I don't have the list, but I doubt the 8 senators and 23 congressional members were all men..this

was not beating up on the girl, it was necessary. Some of her top aides called the senate and asked for an intervention...her own people. It isn't sexist..please dont try to bake it into that!

[Carolina]

36. no, Barbara Mikulski in the Senate and

Nancy Pelosi in the House. There were likely others but I heard those two names mentioned for sure.

[City Lights]

19. No. One of the names mentioned was Mikulski. nt

[City Lights]

28. Andrea Mitchell just mentioned Diane Feinstein too. nt

[Snarkoleptic]

17. All and all 8 senators gathered by phone to talk to her...

Maybe it was voice deity Jim Ward from the Stephanie Miller show making a prank call.

[Canuckistanian]

20. This is a historic moment

Not as historic as Goldwater calling on Nixon, but close.

[Ichingcarpenter]

21. That was a funny bit with Obama's speech and McCain's

Now Rachel Maddow is on with Keith.

[malaise]

24. Time to move on

[DemoTex]

25. Sounds like an INTERVENTION.

A big damn political intervention.

[Ichingcarpenter]

27. A major Clinton Supporter on Abrams is saying it didn't happen

there was no pressure.

[Doityourself]

29. I believe there was...it came from more than one source...

[Ichingcarpenter]

31. This was Clinton's Press Secretary that said it.

Man is she in denial, because they had another newsbreak just as she said it.
That proved it happened.

[bullwinkle428]

26. This kind of reminds me of Nixon in '74, when fellow Repubs

led by Barry Goldwater, I believe, essentially told him it was time to go...

[Stinky The Clown]

34. Fineman has been wrong far more than he's been right.

He knows less than Matthews.

[Doityourself]

38. Well, it's been on mulitple channels and reported by multiple people..so I think Fineman got this

one right, unless all the major news channels,the WSJ, NYT and other news sources are lying or confused.

[Ichingcarpenter]

39. Reported from more than one source

Doesn't matter it is over on Saturday and that's what counts.

[stillcool]

40. She still may not.

I don't know how many times I have heard that the Junior Senator from New York was going to be gracious, and so the right thing. She lies.

[malaise]

41. Anderson Cooper actually made a good point

When you lose the nomination you don't separate your votes, you concede and endorse your party's winner.
She fugged up big time.

[stillcool]

43. Ever since the "catastrophic event"..

strategy for continuing her campaign, I've had a feeling that she would stay in it till the end. If her last hope were to come true, and something should derail Obama's candidacy, she would not need an active campaign..unless she has no faith that the Democratic Party would tap her to be the nominee.

[robinlynne]

45. I read this was the first time in US HISTORY this happened.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

42. Wow! Reminds me of Republicans who marched to the White House to tell Nixon

the gig was up. Either resign or be impeached. Very sad indeed! Hillary could have been great...and she still can if she does the right thing. :(