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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
She's Still Here! — He thought a little thing like winning would stop her? — Oh, Bambi. — Whoever said that after denial comes acceptance hadn't met the Clintons. — If Hillary could not have an acceptance speech, she wasn't going to have acceptance.
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Roger Simon / The Politico:
Obama's first test: Handling Hillary — Barack Obama would like to remind you of something: He won and she didn't. It's about him now and not her. He has made history, and she is history. — Not that Hillary Clinton admitted to any of that in her nonconcession concession speech Tuesday night …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Next on Agenda Is Clinton's Role — Senator Barack Obama heads into the general election with obvious advantages: He is a Democratic candidate running in a sour atmosphere for Republicans, in a contest where voters are hungry for change and coming out of a campaign in which he filled arena after arena with supporters.
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Michael Crowley / The Stump:In the Clinton Bunker — How fitting that, on the night Barack …
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Greg Veis / The Plank:Former Clinton Speechwriter on Obama's Speech
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Aaron Timms / Sydney Morning Herald:Out of the gutter, into the White House
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Matthew Yglesias:
Clinton's Speech — I probably shouldn't write any more about this woman and her staff. Suffice it to say that I've found her behavior over the past couple of months to be utterly unconscionable and this speech is no different. I think if I were to try to express how I really feel …
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Michael Tomasky / Guardian Unlimited: No shame, no gain — US elections 2008: On a night when Obama …
Associated Press:
Text of Obama's speech Tuesday … Text of Democrat Barack Obama's prepared remarks for a rally on Tuesday in St. Paul, Minn., as released by his campaign: — Tonight, after 54 hard-fought contests, our primary season has finally come to an end. — Sixteen months have passed since …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
FRIGHTENINGLY SAD — Here at TPM HQ we're watching John McCain's prebuttal to Sen. Obama's speech tonight. — And, man, I'm curious to hear what other people think, but I really feel like he would have served himself much better by just going to ground for the evening.
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Noam Scheiber / The Stump:
That Outrageous, Delusional Clinton Speech — I'm sure plenty of people had strong reactions to that speech Hillary just gave. For my money, the two most outragerous sentiments expressed were (and this is from my rough contemporaneous notes): — 1.) “What does Hillary want? ...
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Jackie Calmes / Wall Street Journal:
Clinton's Road to Second Place — WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Clinton, once positioned to be Democrats'"inevitable nominee," won't be. On Tuesday, Sen. Barack Obama won enough delegates to claim the party's presidential nomination. — Inside the Clinton campaign and out, the finger-pointing has begun.
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:From Greek mythology, Obama learned a lesson
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Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Pelosi, Reid, Dean To Go Public: Democrats Need To Endorse — In the absence of a concession speech from Sen. Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night, top figures in the Democratic Party are set to go public, urging all uncommitted officials to declare their presidential affiliations.
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Wall Street Journal:
Ed McMahon May Lose Beverly Hills Home — Ed McMahon, the longtime sidekick to television star Johnny Carson, faces the possible loss of his Beverly Hills home to a foreclosure action initiated by a unit of Countrywide Financial Corp. — Howard Bragman, a spokesman for Mr. McMahon …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Clintons Threaten — The speech tonight was a remarkable one for a candidate who has lost the nomination, though not remarkable for a Clinton. It was an assertion that she had won the nomination and a refusal to concede anything to her opponent. Classless, graceless, shameless, relentless.
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Randyj / TIME.com:
NBC: Clinton Seeking a Private Meeting With Obama — Andrea Mitchell says on MSNBC: … Suggests the meeting could happen on Wednesday, either in Washington or New York.
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Spiegel Online:
‘We Have Done Terrible Damage’ — Should Barack Obama win in November, many think that Republican Senator — and Bush critic — Chuck Hagel could become part of his cabinet. SPIEGEL spoke with him about the current administration's mistakes and the disarray in his own party.
Danielle Pletka / Weekly Standard:
Obama's Pander Pivot — Today he becomes a hawk on Iran. — TODAY, SENATOR BARACK OBAMA will speak before the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), where he will execute a maneuver likely to become familiar to the American people in the months ahead: the pander pivot.
SteveK / TVNewser:
“Russert Has Spent 20 Years Building Credibility. All Of A Sudden He's Taking Questions From [A] Daily Kos Blogger?” — Tonight may be the last of the primaries, but the discussion of the cable news coverage will no doubt continue for months to come. MSNBC has bore the brunt of much of the criticism …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
In Defeat, Clinton Graciously Pretends to Win — NEW YORK “What does Hillary want?” — Hillary Clinton put the question to her supporters here Tuesday night, moments after her opponent, Barack Obama, clinched the Democratic presidential nomination. — What Hillary did not want to do was to concede defeat.
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