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8:20 AM ET, June 4, 2008

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Matthew Yglesias:
Clinton's Speech  —  I probably shouldn't write any more about this woman and her staff.  Suffice it to say that I've found her behavior over the past couple of months to be utterly unconscionable and this speech is no different.  I think if I were to try to express how I really feel …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
FRIGHTENINGLY SAD  —  Here at TPM HQ we're watching John McCain's prebuttal to Sen. Obama's speech tonight.  —  And, man, I'm curious to hear what other people think, but I really feel like he would have served himself much better by just going to ground for the evening.
Michael Tomasky / Guardian Unlimited:
No shame, no gain  —  US elections 2008: On a night when Obama made history, Clinton's reaction was dangerously abrasive and selfish  —  The lead story tonight - my “lede,” as we spell it here - should have been about the remarkable fact that a black man has been nominated by a major party …
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
FRIGHTENINGLY SAD — NOW ON VIDEO!
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Next on Agenda Is Clinton's Role  —  Senator Barack Obama heads into the general election with obvious advantages: He is a Democratic candidate running in a sour atmosphere for Republicans, in a contest where voters are hungry for change and coming out of a campaign in which he filled arena after arena with supporters.
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CNN:
Republicans begin to highlight Clinton's criticism of Obama  —  NEW YORK (CNN) - Hours before the polls closed Tuesday in the final two Democratic presidential primaries, the Republican National Committee began circulating a video of Hillary Clinton questioning Barack Obama's qualifications …
Gerard Baker / Times of London:   Can Obama make American dream come true?
Aaron Timms / Sydney Morning Herald:   Out of the gutter, into the White House
Big Tent Democrat / TalkLeft:
Making History and Denying History
Charles Hurt / New York Post:
HILLARY'S ONE CHANCE AT REDEMPTION
Discussion: The Stump
Associated Press:
Text of Obama's speech Tuesday … Text of Democrat Barack Obama's prepared remarks for a rally on Tuesday in St. Paul, Minn., as released by his campaign:  —  Tonight, after 54 hard-fought contests, our primary season has finally come to an end.  —  Sixteen months have passed since …
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Noam Scheiber / The Stump:
That Outrageous, Delusional Clinton Speech
Discussion: The Daily Dish and BlueOregon
Associated Press:
Text of Clinton's speech Tuesday
Discussion: BBC, The RBC and MyDD
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
The Clintons Threaten  —  The speech tonight was a remarkable one for a candidate who has lost the nomination, though not remarkable for a Clinton.  It was an assertion that she had won the nomination and a refusal to concede anything to her opponent.  Classless, graceless, shameless, relentless.
SteveK / TVNewser:
“Russert Has Spent 20 Years Building Credibility.  All Of A Sudden He's Taking Questions From [A] Daily Kos Blogger?”  —  Tonight may be the last of the primaries, but the discussion of the cable news coverage will no doubt continue for months to come.  MSNBC has bore the brunt of much of the criticism …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and YID With LID
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
She's Still Here!  —  He thought a little thing like winning would stop her?  —  Oh, Bambi.  —  Whoever said that after denial comes acceptance hadn't met the Clintons.  —  If Hillary could not have an acceptance speech, she wasn't going to have acceptance.
Discussion: Don Surber
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
From Greek mythology, Obama learned a lesson  —  WASHINGTON - To understand how Barack Obama won the presidential primary, you have to look at what he learned when he lost.  —  Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton solidly in the Iowa caucuses in January, but five days later she beat him, painfully and unexpectedly, in New Hampshire.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
This Moment  —  If I needed reassurance that this man is the most formidable force in American politics today, his speech tonight confirmed it.  It was shrewd - with an artful positioning on Iraq.  It was graceful - with respect for McCain's service and Clinton's tenacity.
Discussion: Jay Currie
Sam Stein / The Huffington Post:
Pelosi, Reid, Dean To Go Public: Democrats Need To Endorse  —  In the absence of a concession speech from Sen. Hillary Clinton on Tuesday night, top figures in the Democratic Party are set to go public, urging all uncommitted officials to declare their presidential affiliations.
Fouad Ajami / Wall Street Journal:
Why We Went to Iraq  —  Of all that has been written about the play of things in Iraq, nothing that I have seen approximates the truth of what our ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, recently said of this war: “In the end, how we leave and what we leave behind will be more important than how we came.”
Discussion: GINA COBB
Kos / Daily Kos:
State of the race: 6/3  —  No matter the blatherings of a Clinton campaign in its last throes (for real, not like the Iraqi insurgency), fact is Obama has weathered attacks from Hillary Clinton, former president Bill Clinton, half the Democratic Party, John McCain, the RNC …
Discussion: The Daily Dish and Wonkette
 
 
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
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Dark, Perhaps Forever
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Rupert Cornwell / The Independent:
The Big Question: Where did Hillary Clinton go wrong in her campaign …
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The GOP is eager to use video of Hillary to attack Obama and promote McCain.
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