Opinion: Hillary we may or may not have hardly known ye, but it’s still too soon to tell...
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Drudge, the WashPost and CNN’s election center all have variations on the same story: Hillary Clinton is set to throw in the towel Friday (or Saturday), suspend (or terminate) her campaign and express (or pledge) her support to Barack Obama. Here’s the gist from the tireless Nedra Pickler:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton planned to throw support to Democratic rival Barack Obama Friday and call on Democrats to unite against Republican John McCain, her campaign announced Wednesday. ‘Senator Clinton will be hosting an event in Washington on Friday to thank her supporters and express her support for Senator Obama and party unity,’ her communications director Howard Wolfson said.
As possibly the only person in America who grew more fond of Hillary Clinton the more stubborn and difficult she proved to be, and as somebody who has been frankly baffled at the way my colleagues in the MSM all seem to want her to go away (you’re in the news business, people; why would you want the story to end?), I say, fare thee well, Hillary Clinton. Age can not wither nor custom stale the infinite awesomeness of the 1990s, when the Clintons were in the White House and all was right with the world...