Better Late than Never???

I guess I'll have to believe all the press reports and a statement released by Hillary herself - finally, she will meet with her staff at her Washington home privately on Friday and then on Saturday, have a public meeting where she suspends her campaign and endorses Obama.

Her most rabid supporters will surely say that Obama pressured her to get out earlier than she wanted or needed, but all the reporting says: Not So! It was the Congressional Democrats, like Charlie Rangel of NY and her Senator supporters, like Shumer and Feinstein, who finally convinced or persuaded her - it was time, it was even past time.

This final misstep on her campaign's part, this final misreading of the true situation - thinking there was some alternative, some way to fight on - perhaps this will help put to rest the notion that Obama OWES her the Veep spot - and that's a good thing. And maybe it will also be a lesson to future campaigns that never-say-die is not the way to go 100%. When Terry McAuliffe introduced her on Tuesday night for her "non-concession speech" as the NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES - that was the last straw for some of the Congressional Democrats who had supported her all along. It wasn't the right tone for the historic night of Obama - an American of African descent - becoming the presumptive nominee.

I've been obsessed with this story and have watched the cable news channels and read the news sites and blogs and I must say - had Hillary been a man, I just don't think there would have been all this discussion of - just give her time, just give her space, she's run so hard, let her deaccelerate. But I'm not old enough to have a detailed memory of some of the past nomination campaigns that this one has been compared to - Carter/Ted Kennedy in 1980 is one, I think. Give Ted time, give Ted space? Did that really happen?