Hillary quits by this weekend?

May 8th, 2008 at 09:42am Pat Cunningham

  

Freeport’s own Dan Balz, writing in today’s edition of the Washington Post, reported THIS about Hillary Clinton’s grim prospects of winning the Democratic presidential nomination:

“I sent a message to one of her most loyal supporters early Wednesday morning asking what are her realistic options? ‘She has only one option,’ he replied. ‘Gracefully exit and help unify the party to beat [John] McCain.’ How quickly, he was asked. ‘I would advise them to figure out how to do it as soon as this weekend,’ he replied.”

This is but one example of how the media narrative and the prevailing political winds have changed in the past two days from according a bit of lingering viability to Clinton’s candidacy to declaring her hopelessly out of the running.

Another sign is the cover of Time magazine (above), which hits newstands tomorrow.

And then there’s the abject desperation evident in Hillary’s REMARK yesterday that she enjoys greater support than Obama ”among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans…who had not completed college.”

Make what you will of that coded language, but it’s not the kind of stuff you’d expect to hear from a viable presidential candidate in the Democratic Party. She sounds like George Wallace, circa 1968.

She’s finished.

UPDATE: Pollster John Zogby WRITES that as many as 30 super-delegates will endorse Obama “probably today, but certainly within 48 hours.”

Entry Filed under: 2008 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama