How it went down...

We've all heard by now that Hillary has agreed to concede on Friday (in private, publicly on Saturday - whatever) but according to Carl Bernstein, here's how it went down: Last night, despite a rock star speech from Obama and reporters shoving each other out of the way to be the first to proclaim the historical implications of the day, Hillary apparently still thought she could somehow win this thing. Maybe, if she waited long enough, something bad would come out about Obama or she could somehow sway the superdelegates come convention time. Was this crazythink the result of living in a campaign bubble or is this woman so power hungry she couldn't let go of the vision? No matter. This morning Hillary's strongest congressional supporters phoned her en masse to disabuse her of her delusions. Their message was simple. Get out by Friday and get out with grace and a strong endorsement of Obama. It's time for the party to unite.

How would she respond? Really well, actually. She marched down to the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee to convince them of her heartfelt belief in Obama's commitment to Israel. Obama, unfortunately, has had trouble with our people (the Dimpled Chads are Jews! Well, Rach is a half) and this vote of confidence should really help him. We shall see in the days to come how good of an Obama cheerleader Hillary can be (and how big of a pain in the ass she is about the VP spot) but this speech today was an important and laudable first step. I say for now we give her the benefit of the doubt (she's got plenty of time to screw that up).