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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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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.
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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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 outrageous sentiments expressed were (and this is from my rough contemporaneous notes): — 1.) “What does Hillary want? ...
Michael Powell / New York Times:
Barack Obama: Calm in the Swirl of History — He gives the appearance of a strikingly laid-back victor, this presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. — On the day before the night he made history, Barack Obama shot hoops at the Back Bay Club in Chicago, and called the odd superdelegate or two.
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 …
Michael Crowley / The Stump:
In the Clinton Bunker — How fitting that, on the night Barack Obama finally claimed the Democratic nomination, Hillary Clinton delivered her non-concession speech from a concrete bunker. To reach the Baruch College gymnasium where Hillary spoke with such surprising defiance her supporters …
Michael Tomasky / Guardian Unlimited: No shame, no gain — US elections 2008: On a night when Obama …
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:Obama Clinches Nomination; First Black Candidate to Lead a Major Party Ticket
David Paul Kuhn / The Politico:Exit polls show challenge for Obama
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Greg Veis / The Plank:Former Clinton Speechwriter on Obama's Speech
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HillaryClinton.com:Hillary's Election Night Remarks in New York, NY
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HillBuzz:
What's on the Michelle Obama Rant Tape? — Here's what's known so far: — The Michelle Obama Rant Tape was filmed between June 26th - July 1st 2004 in Chicago, IL at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Conference at Trinity United Church: specifically the Women's Event.
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Andrew Malcolm / Top of the Ticket:
BREAKING NEWS: Dean, Pelosi, Reid set Friday deadline for superdelegates' choices, move to force end to Clinton bid — With the final primary concluded barely hours before, top Democratic Party leaders in Washington early this morning ratcheted up the pressure to force all remaining uncommitted superdelegates …
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Matthew Yglesias:
Awakening By Talking — Rich Lowry gets frighteningly reality based: “Part of the success of the surge is that we were talking to Sunni tribesmen and former Saddamists who were doing terrible things in Iraq. When conditions were right (they got sick of al Qaeda, the Shia were killing them, we were there in force), we flipped them.
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Obama pivots on Iran? — Barack Obama will make an appearance today at the AIPAC conference, attempting to convince the pro-Israeli lobby that he fully supports Israel and stands against her enemies. That will take a nifty bit of pivoting, as Danielle Pletka notes in today's Weekly Standard.
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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 …
Marc Ambinder:
Clinton Supporters Offer To Help McCain — Matt Burns, the spokesman for the GOP convention in St. Paul e-mails to say that the RNC's convention office in St. Paul has received numerous telephone calls in the last few hours from people who identify themselves as Clinton supporters asking how they can help Sen. McCain.
Pete Abel / The Moderate Voice:
A Grin, A Smirk, A Moment — Three images from last night's TV coverage will stay with me for years. — 1. McCain's reptitious, ill-timed, and creepier-than-usual grin ... like the Cheshire cat on sedatives. — 2. Clinton's defiant smirk, as her NYC supporters shouted “Denver, Denver, Denver.”
Mark R. Levin / The Corner:
What's Behind Hope and Change — IMHO, Obama needs to be exposed for his ideological extremism, which Obama generically packages as hope and change. McCain would be in a far better position to do so if he wasn't competing with Obama by embracing similar rhetoric.
Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs:
AIPAC, one year later — Last year at the policy conference of the American Israel Political Action Committee, what's since become manifest was just emerging: Obama has an extra bar to clear with parts of the Jewish and pro-Israel communities. — There, he stumbled a bit …
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