I heard a major part of her speech, and it was fascinating. It would have been close to a perfect speech if she were the actual nominee.

She is not only still in--deep--denial---but she's encouraging her supporters to share the delusion.   Which is guaranteed to make the eventual comedown even harder for them to take.

Not the best way to unify the party behind Obama. And I'm sure he realizes this. Not much he can do about it right now, however.

As usual, her speech came down to:   me-me-me-me-me. Ambition unslaked--by a lot.

Hope he does not let himself be pressured by the e-mail campaign she just about requested to put herself on the ticket.

Bad mistake.

1) We should assume, I believe, that the vast majority of her supporters are thinking persons, capable of realizing what a McCain presidency would mean to them--and will therefore support Obama in the fall, regardless of what many may say now about jumping to McCain.

2) It's a 2-fer. With Hillary you get Bill--and therefore constant second-guessing from two people who each think they belong in the president's chair.

3) As we've noted before, having Hillary on the ticket--at all--is a real good way to unite an extremely fractious Republican party.