Would she be doing the exact same thing, if she was debating doing an independent run? Since, she wouldn't be running in the primary anymore, but rather would be running as an independent?

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Most of the seventeen Democratic senators who have remained uncommitted throughout the primaries will endorse Barack Obama for president this week, CNN has learned.

Sources familiar with discussions between Obama supporters and these senators tell CNN's Gloria Borger that the senators will wait until after the South Dakota and Montana primaries to announce their support for Obama.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/200 8/06/02/sources-most-uncommitted-senator s-to-endorse-obama/

Admit it Todd you just want to see her grovel and fawn all over Obama like you folks do. Pathetic.

Whatever else happens She is not going to run as an independent. I'd bet my next paycheck on that.

If Obama reaches 2,118 some time this week, I think Hillary should then endorse Obama as the Party's Nominee in a joint appearence with Obama.

Democrats need to keep our eyes on the prize next November.

... from Tom Edsall:

Hillary Clinton has summoned top donors and backers to attend her New York speech tomorrow night in an unusual move that is being widely interpreted to mean she plans to suspend her campaign and endorse Barack Obama.

Obama and Clinton spoke Sunday night and agreed that their staffs should begin negotiations over post-primary activities, according to reliable sources. In addition to seeking Obama's help in raising money to pay off some $20 million-plus in debts, Clinton is known to want Obama to assist black officials who endorsed her and who are now taking constituent heat, including, in some cases, primary challenges from pro-Obama politicians.

[...]

Earlier in the day it was reported that Clinton staffers were being urged by the campaign's finance department "to turn in their outstanding expense receipts by the end of the week," another sign that the run at the White House was nearing an end. In addition, Politico wrote that members of Clinton's advance staff had received calls and emails Sunday night, summoning them to New York City and telling them their roles on the campaign are ending.

Why do you call for all the expense reports to be in by the end of the week if the end of the week doesn't reflect a significant change in circumstance?

If HRC does endorse this week, it'll go a long way to showing up everyone who thinks (as I do) that she has been campaigning for the last two months as a kind of denial filled, pesronal power trip.

Show me up HRC.

I expect an official endorment ceremony is coming sometime next week, but it wouldn't shock me if it comes as early as this week either. I'm guession it will be either somewhere in Pennsyvania or Ohio.

and long overdue.

Then we will see who is on which side of the party line.

It will be interesting to see what sort of diaries and comments result in penalities on MyDD afterwards.  So many (even today) are direct attacks on the presumptive Democrat nominee, TexasDarlin is a blogroll reference for GOP attack blogs, Jerome himself has taken to tinderbox shark jumping.

Thanks for the moderate diary, Todd.  Look forward to campaigning with you Wednesday.

-chris

so much will not always be drowned out in so many hearts and minds by the fact that she didn't win the nomination.  I am an Obama supporter, but I will always be grateful to Hillary for what her career, thus far, has meant to the world in which my children will grow up, particularly for my daughter.  Yes, the nomination and likely subsequent presidency would have been a first for women, but not attaining it doesn't undo everything else that she has done.  My daughter's life will be improved because Hillary has served.  So will my son's.

She's not done yet.  What if she gets a cabinet post or goes on to become the first female to lead the senate?  What if it is Hillary's bill that eventually reaches Barack's desk in the Oval Office to be signed providing health insurance for all?

I'll believe it when I see and hear it.  She probably should have dropped out after Wisconsin.

Better late than never, though.

...at least in terms of stopping all of the infighting and letting us focus on defeating McCain.  The whole thing was so frustrating because the two candidates disagreed more on methods than the actual goal they were trying to achieve.

I can't imagine that any Clinton supporters are feeling good right now as close losses are harder to get over.  Here's hoping we'll be working together soon.

I thought this was a post on the tv show "Arrested Development".  

it could go a long way towards clearing the air and putting the joint ticket back into the realm of possibility.

"According to CNN's Candy Crowley, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will remain uncommitted until Clinton officially drops out of the race."

Typical spinelessness from Reid.
Clinton's tenacity would be well applied as Senate Majority Leader, though getting the rest of the Seante to agree to that would not be easy, since she is relatively junior.  

But Christ, Reid is a fucking wimp.  I would love to see him go.

I think if Hillary does end this gracefully, I will have to start being magnanimous to her supporters again.  Ok, I guess the black hat did not really suit me that well anyway.

Is located at Baruch College.  If that's not telling, I don't know what is.

Look it is only a matter of time until Obama is the nominee - I have thought that for quite some time, even when others still felt that Clinton could achieve the nom (although screamed illogically for her to get out of the race @@).  The first question, for me will be can I choke on having to vote for this man, knowing how devastating the GOP can & will be? Like I said I tried prior to the NJ primary to like him & the more I learned the more I grew to firmly DISLIKE him. To top it off I would have been more comfortable with other candidates (nay I would have actually LIKED other candidates <---note the plural) & I really can't formulate an honest argument in his favor, except to say "he isn't Republican & McCain." At the same time with SC at stake I feel the personal obligation to vote for him & pray to God I am wrong about his chances in the G/E AND more importantly his ability. But in all honesty I am not sure it is a pill I can choke on - I will say the fact that Clinton will probably (in my opinion) not even be asked to be VP just finishes off the way his campaign has treated her which has only cemented my firm dislike.  The audacity this man & his campaign exhibits by NOT recognizing what she would bring to his campaign & how she could help him govern (b/c I  think he overestimates his capability) I find personally repugnant.

If some of her supporters are actually buying the conspiracy theory about Obama stealing the nomination in the rules committee, you could see the same thing when she drops out.