Harold Ickes is on MSNBC right now denying ALL of this. He's completely vague in what exactly WILL happen, but he says AP is wrong.

Total yo-yo kinda morning!

ran an amazing race and is an important leader of our Democratic Party.

I think of what John Edwards said about her a few weeks ago:

"What she has shown ... is strength and character, and what drives her is something that every single one of us can and should appreciate," Edwards said. "She is a woman who, in my judgment, is made of steel, and she's a leader in this country not because of her husband but because of what she has done."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/14/e dwards.obama/

She is a leader because of herself.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsm emo.com/2008/06/hillary_campaign_she_wil l_not.php

Hillary Campaign: She Will Not Concede Tonight
By Greg Sargent - June 3, 2008, 11:23AM

The Hillary campaign rushes out this response to the Associated Press story reporting that Hillary will concede tonight:

   The AP story is incorrect. Senator Clinton will not concede the nomination this evening.

Washington Post site has Clinton denial also.

I do think it will happen, soon, don't get me wrong.  

To add a little more mystery:

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsm emo.com/2008/06/senators_failed_to_reach _endor.php

Senators Failed To Reach Endorsement Decision; Privately Discussed Joint Ticket
By Greg Sargent - June 3, 2008, 11:02AM

As I noted below, a bunch of uncommitted Senators met yesterday to discuss how or whether to go public with an endorsement, but Obama advisers don't expect a group of them to endorse today.

Now there's more confirmation of this. The Rocky Mountain News talked to Senator Ken Salazar about what went down at the meeting; the Senators reached no endorsement agreement, and furthermore...

   "I could make the argument for either one of them," Salazar said about Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton. "Many people can make the argument that maybe the best thing would be for both of them to be on the same ticket."

   Salazar said the possibility of a joint ticket was discussed at today's meeting. "There was some of that discussion, but there's no conclusion," he said.

and Obama's alone.

Barack Obama has won the nomination and the responsibility and the privilege of picking the VP.

No other nominee has been told who his running mate will be.

do you want to suppress vote in SD?

Even with the retractions, I agree, the campaign is 'over'.

However, I don't concede that Hillary 'lost'.  The difference in the delegate count is what it is, but the difference in the popular vote count also is what it is.  This has been a contest of not simply two candidates, but of two groups, two ideologies, largely split along concepts of age, sex, race and levels of political understanding.

One candidate 'out gamed' the other. Hillary should not simply be put out to pasture as some of Obama's less experienced or more inclined to hate the Clintons supporters wish.  But it should be her decision whether she is part of the Democratic 'conversation' from here on out, not the decision of Obama or his supporters or even the Democratic leadership.  The rank and file Democratic voters have spoken and given that message.

The campaign won't officially be over, but I believe Clinton will more or less declare it to be unofficially over.  She needs to try to retire her campaign debt, and she can't legally retire more than $250,000 if she drops from the race.  I think she will acknowledge that for practical purposes the race is indeed over.