Matthew Dowd

Sad, sad night for team Clinton. It's over, but have they accepted it? We'll see. In the meantime, I sure wish "WestCoastMessenger" was still posting on here so I could smack him around severely.

LOVE the line "No exit strategy"

I sure hope Hillary starts smelling the coffee very soon. She lost and needs to bow out graciously. She now needs to send a strong message to those who support her that they MUST now support Obama in November. Something tells me that she will not go out graciously and with dignity. She may end up ensuring that John McCain wins... I hope Hillary does the right thing and supports the real winner --- OBAMA!

You dont have to be a GOOF about it dowd.

Its like your entire article is GLOATING like a 15 year old.

Congrats to senator Obama. He ran a brilliant campaign.

But its journalists like you Dowd who dont make it easy for us Clinton supporters to support Obama.

You just make us hate him more when you mock Hillary.

The math has been the same for 2 months. His ability to stand back up after the media and the Republican Clintons hit him time and time again was already a known. It has just taken this long for the media to crawl off his back.
Will Clinton leave now? Nope. It has never been when to leave..she has always been the embarressing drunk that won't leave a party until someone man handles them out of a house. In Denver when it is finally over and she has no recourse, then she will leave.
Will her Senatoral seat still be avaliable? I wouldn't bet the house on it after her racist pranks recently. People tend to have longer memories than politicans wish they had. Her total disregard for the democratic party will also come back to haunt her when a fellow democrat runs against her and uses her own actions.
She has damaged Senator Obama and we will see come November how badly though any hopes she may have had regarding running in 2012 if he loses are long gone now. She has shown a side that decent people won't support.

Sen.Obama has defeated the shameless media and the Republicans who voted for HRC. I take a look at the Americans news via my mobile internet phone from Holland in Europe , where I live now. For the past days, everything I saw on CBS news as I logged in, as their top stories, were incendiary attacks against Sen.Obama. It was awful! Today CNN mobile hasn't even posted the election results, Yahoo shows a smily HRC with a Clinton won Indiana,CBS called Indiana early for HRC , it is really a media conspiracy..Anyway, we are very happy here that he will be the nominee, there is just no way around it!

The biggest difference in the 2 of them? Tonight Obama congradulated her on her win in IL. while she was just a narcisstic embarressment to all women and said nothing about his win.
1 adult and 1 child in this race and it isn't hard to figure out who was the adult. Those type of actions cost her.

It is time for democratic party to do in depth analysis for November. First look at the states they lost in last two elections. They need a candidate who can win the states won by democrats traditionally and also can capture couple of republican states. They must treat Florida and Michigan fairly. If a state allowed republicans to vote in a primary, try to understand republican factor to affect the outcome. I can see that republicans are very anxious to see
Obama as the democratic candidate who is very much to the left. The country is not ready to elect such a person. The person must appeal middle of the road population. I agree that both Senator Clinton and Senator Obama should sit down with key democratic leaders and make a decision which is good for the party.

Deanna. You may want to re listen to her speech. She congratulated Senator Obama for his win in North Carolina.

I wish you Obama folks would be more gracious about all this. Is every Obama supporter a teenager?

Lets face the facts. Obama will be the nominee. Lets move on and unite as a party around him.

You aint going to do that by continuing to bash Bill and Hillary Clinton.

The majority of media blattherheads are Republicans and they have done their best to ensure that McCain would go up against the weakest candidate and that has ALWAYS been Clinton. I mean lets be real here, McCain can't even remember which country we are at war with! BUT with ALL the Clinton baggage that they would rehash and all the new to come, with the 109 million income and who knows what regarding Bill's museum, they were frothing at the mouth to get Clinton. Guess they can just all figure now what we have known all along. No one really has much respect for most of the talking heads ROTFLMAO

NO in the SECOND one she gave she did but the first one? She did NOT.

NO in the first one she gave? She did NOT. In the second one? she did.

This is what kills me. If someone is honest about Clinton we are bashing her. BUT until she stops and steps down? I will continue to be honest about her and if you see that as bashing? Go talk to Obama about bashing. He has been in THAT seat for 2 months now at the hands of Hillary.

Hillary Clinton needs to step down before anyone stops. She cannot be trusted.

As soon as she leave the race, I will be leaving with her and joing the race with McCain. Hillary 2008 or McCain 2008. Have fun Obama supporters winning without us traditional, ignorant, uneducated democrats. Pontificate some more about the wonderful Barack...give your diatribes about cheating Bill-no one is listening--that sound you hear is us lifelong dems joining John McCain's fight.

Hillary Clinton does have an exit strategy.
She can quit now and still be President some day....

HC has enough contribution already for the Fall election. If FL and MI delegates are not seated, I hope she will consider running as an independent.

I hope all the pundits, including those at ABC, will start to wake up from the deep sleep they have been in since 2001 and Bush's "victory". When Gibson defended his actions after the ABC debate by saying "it was about electability, the voters care about that" it was the last straw. Both that and the belief that you have to subject a candidate to withering examination of non-issues are not what politics should be about. They foster ignorance of the issues and pursuade voters that true issues are not important. These ideas were pushed by Rove and his ilk for a specific purpose, and the good of the American people had nothing to do with it. Clinton then adopted them, and so did you. My 30 years of ABC news viewing ended after the debate, and I can truly say that I feel better informed now.

One of the sanest pieces of commentary I have seen on this site in quite some time

Brian: Good riddance to you and your ilk. You've unnecessarily prolonged this nomination with your blind support for a contrived candidate. I'll take intelligent, thoughtful, progressive voters to uninformed, fear-driven, reactionary voters any day. Happy sulking.