Hillary is widely reported to have ‘quit’ or ‘withdrawn’ or has ‘ended her campaign’ and so on.

I’m not an American, at least not a US citizen, though I am of the Americas, so a bit of elucidation would be appreciated. As far as I know Hillary has ’suspended’ her campaign an I think that means staying on the ballot come convention time? If that’s right, what she did seems more like idling the motor, keeping her delegates and seeing what happens between now and the convention.

Some states allow their delegates to vote as they wish, especially on a second ballot, as far as I know, and I think the ’superdelegates’ are not bound by anything – they can vote any way they want even on the first ballot.

If all the above is right, aren’t we looking at Hillary’s staying in the race with the motor idling ready to pick up the nomination if Obama slips, if another skeleton appears, if he polls badly against McCain in the interim and so on?

Wouldn’t quitting have involved her ‘ending’ rather than ’suspending’ her campaign; wouldn’t she have released her delegates to switch to Obama? She did neither.

Ponder, perhaps, that ‘ending’ the campaign was an option deliberately not exercised.

It was a clever speech. She surely cottoned early to which phrases were eliciting boos at the mention of Obama’s name and she used ‘em good and she used ‘em often. If they were already in the script when the booing started she could have avoided repetition. Nah. She reminded the women of America that they had been thwarted and she used code like ‘I intend to carry on’ and ‘I will be in the front lines’ and ‘I’ll be there for you’ and so on.

Her speech hit her partisan supporters’ nerve endings and paid enough measured lip service to Obama to be off the hook if he gets the nomination then loses to MCain. Of course, he doesn’t have the nomination, she’s still on the ticket until the end … note end … of the convention. She can play those good excerpts later though to prove how ’supportive’ she was.

Oh, and there’s Obama’s Boos Problem (I know, bad pun).

Obama has a boos problem within the Democratic party. There were lots of boos from Hillary’s audience at the mention of his name. There are a lot of smart women and others around who can figure that if Obama loses in November she’s the heir presumptive for 2012 when her age is still viable. McCain will be nearing 80. If Obama wins and is two term, Hillary’s hopes are toast. This can be seen as ‘women are toast for a decade’. And for those who don’t figger that out for themselves, is it possible that there will be plenty of Hillary operators to explain it? I think so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

If this is all fakery…..I hope the rumor dies soon. If this is truth….I hope the tape is made public soon. If some media has been sitting on it……we definately need to know why.