Vilsack says it's over

[Jed K]

"Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, one of Hillary Clinton's most ardent supporters, said Sunday it's time for Hillary Clinton to acknowledge she has lost her bid for the Democratic nomination.

Vilsack, who was briefly a presidential candidate himself last year, told the Associated Press it's 'pretty clear that Senator Obama is going to be the nominee.'

'After Tuesday's contests, she needs to acknowledge that he's going to be the nominee and quickly get behind him,' Vilsack also said.

Vilsack first announced he was running for president in November, 2006, but dropped his bid three months later after the Democrat failed to drum up a significant level of support or raise the necessary campaign funds needed to compete. He endorsed Clinton shortly after and played a key role in the New York senator's unsuccessful Iowa campaign effort.

His comments came the same day the Clinton showed signs she plans to press on after Tuesday's contests — continuing argue she has won the popular vote and that the party's superdelegates are able to switch their allegiances before the convention in August."

Source:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

[JonUK]

Hilary Clinton - the energizer bunny's annoying younger sister....

I am hovering between being annoyed at HRC for her continued Myopia with respect to the Writing on the Wall, and respect for her for her instance that the democratic process be carried out to the bitter end.

Lets face it, the procession of primarys are supposed to take this long, and this is exactly the situation they are supposed to resolve - two candidates virtually neck and neck, neither of whom can clinch the nomination with the primary delegates they have.

Its only the GOP style of 'oops I came 3rd in a primary, better bow out so I don't hurt the party', combined with a media whose only choice other than to cover the nomination is to say 'more die in Iraq' every single day from now until november, that even makes this an issue.

That said, I do want the nomination over, and I do want Obama to win, just so he can start nailing McCain to his own flagpole using every bellicose, senile, flippant and just plain wrong statement he makes....