If at first you don't concede...

It's my favorite museum in Washington. It used to be the US Pension Office designed for Union Civil War veterans. It was designed to accommodate soldiers with canes and wheelchairs.

It is the first modern office building in world history. Prior to the Pension Office, most offices were held in townhouse style buildings. The Pension Office had an elaborate message system and was designed to handled hundreds of employees at a time.  It is also the first major office building to accommodate the handicapped. Great site for this rally.

Nothing the media does in covering HRC would surprise me any longer.  This is just one more element of the ridiculousness.  

The type of speech here is why some of us didn't like the HRC campaign (style or duration).  It seems unlikely that  she can give a speech that seems sincere that "enthusiastically make the case of why it is so important that her supporters to get behind Barack Obama" when she's spent the last  ~5 months saying the exact opposite ("the kitchen sink strategy", as opposed to why we should vote for her).  While I believe she can make a legitimate argument on "why it is so important for Democrats now to come together and take the campaign against John McCain into the fall" that will likely just come off as party politics.  That may be sufficient to bolster the party base, but it'll have to be a very good speech focusing on the latter, and the absence of a convincing former (which I don't believe at this point she can deliver) will mean her independent supporters will be less inclined to be convinced.

Anyone else think it's funny that the cable news networks are stalking Hillary Clinton's home to get the shot of her leaving for the National Building Museum?

Watch it live here: http://www.cnn.com/video/live/live.html? stream=stream2

Crowd is already fired up :) I expect a fantastic speak from a fantastic politician.

(Mic check, 1,2,3,4.. what do you think?) ;)

It's funny in a typical MSM kind of way, lol

But I'm glad they did it. I'd never seen her D.C. home before, and think it's a lovely example of stately, traditional georgian architecture.

what!? She's not gonna endorse him? Sigh...it never ends for her.

please.

Hey, I have an idea.  Everyone should watch the speech first.  Then you can start lamenting about what it was lacking.  Just sayin'

Let's hope the crowd is able to keep cool.  I see people using papers as fans already.

It really does bring out the difficulties these celebrity politicians face.  We can criticize them for living in a bubble sometimes, but really, what other choice do they have?

Man....the world awaits and she's 20 minutes late and hasn't even left her house yet? I wonder if Bill's trying to talk her out of it at the last minute (just kidding);)

hey frankleyO

what your comment says really?

"row faster"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMBeKmViV lA

all of this is the people on TV and just people, on TV.

There are some folks on TV who spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff and have interesting opinions on what will happen before it happens.

There are some folks on blogs who spend a lot of time thinking about this stuff and have interesting opinions on what will happen before it happens.

Niether group knows a damn thing about what will happen before it happens.  Some just have cameras pointed at their faces.

-chris

How do you even accrue $30m in debt?

Under federal law, a campaign can only be lent money by the candidate unless its secured by verified campaign assets: furniture and computers, anticipated matching funds, market value of the mailing list. Theres' no way a campaign could have a mailing list worth $19m (allowing for the 11m she lent herself).

The only logical explanation is that its debt owed to vendors. A lot of that would have to be PSB (Penn's firm). Why not just forgive the debt, and Hilary could forgive the debt owed to her by the campaign, rather than have Obama raise money that could otherwise go to electing Democrats.

This has got to be one of the most difficult days in her political life.  I feel for her.  And I am nervous and sad for her.

Tuesday night was kind of a reasonably bitter
"damn right I'm pissed off I lost..."

Today, will be something else. It will be elevated. It will demonstrate that IF she would have won..we would be ok. It will dispel the BS from the sexist media..it will demonstrate to Obama supporters why so many supported her.
It will also sound the death knell for the GOP in 2008...

The Party United, can never be defeated!

CNN and MSNBC allow Buchanan to come on their programs and yap? No one cares what that racist thinks.

Yes.  It's one thing to concede with grace when your opponent has won fairly and squarely.  And I have to say there are more than a few Dems who are not convinced the Obama has won this thing fairly and squarely.  Giving him Uncommited delegates, for instance, smacks of entitlement.

Also, I think now that the pundits and Dem elite are getting what they want, they ought to leave Hillary alone.  It's not on her shoulders to win this thing for Obama.  He's the candidate; he's got to win it.  He's got to attract unconvinced Dems and Independents.  For months, they've been pressuring Hillary to give it up.  They got what they want, and now it's sounding like they want her to win the freakin' election for Obama.  He's the one.  He's the one who will stop the sea levels from rising. He's the one. Yes, he can.

I think Wolf Blitzer should ask Donna Brazile why she likes to present herself as an expert when she was part of the biggest clusterfuck in political history.

This is just like Gore's 2000 concession speech. I want to yell, "Don't do it Hillary." MSNBC's thought that America would implode if the votes were fully counted in Florida in 2000 were just as silly as MSNBC's thought that the Democratic party would implode if all the votes were counted in Florida in 2008 and a citizen in Florida was considered a 100% human being.  Conventions are where such close races should be worked out. That is what conventions are for.

anyone want a funny video to watch instead of pre-game?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC8qBFl6I ps

Hillary thank you!

A great day. She is cementing her place even tighter within the Democratic party. She's is not going anywhere. She's got half the party. Real unity will only be achieved once this is recognized. Politics is the art of compromise as Mr. Obama is about to learn.

Now PMSNBC is saying HRC has reinvented herself. Even in conceding they have to stick her. Why iss it so important for some to get that one last kick?

Gotta hand it to Hillary for building this up to such an extent.  The irony of it all is that as frustrating as it is to Obama supporters, the more tension there is around this, the more effective it could be in terms of helping us win the White House.