Martha Coakley concedes. She has graciously given Scott Brown her congratulations. It’ll be hard in these circumstances to delay seating him, no? At some point the gamesmanship just doesn’t work.
And not to rub salt in the wounds, but sometimes a concession speech is the candidate’s finest moment (e.g., Al Gore). This deadly dull, rambling speech isn’t one of those.
‘How can we get the country through this time of crisis?’
The only “crisis” in this country is the idiots in Washington.
Someone should point out to Obama that it was one of Lincoln’s VPs who was impeached, not the spouse of his VP.
However you slice their superficial differences (gender and racial identity, and the tactics each uses to hide his/her true beliefs), this would be no balanced ticket in the ideological or philosophical sense. Both want more government—in your face, with its hand in your wallet, doing what’s “best” for you whether you like it or not.
Actually, I think Obama is preparing the way for Dennis Kucinich as Sec. of Defense, and Mike Gavel at Homeland Security.
I also love the modesty of best “possible” government being him, leaving open the possibility that Aristotle’s best regime might not be an Obama presidency.
You know, I think that jumping up and down etc. would have been a bit more obvious – not least of all to the Hillaryites. And “if we can work it out” is such a vast hedge you’d need Mitt Romney’s landscapers to keep it trimmed.
If we can work it out, COMMENTARY will be paying me $1,000 per blog comment.
Whenever we need an obscure trivia question, the members of my family have a long-standing tradition of asking, “Who was Lincoln’s first vice-president?” Oddly enough, despite his apparent greatness, nobody today remembers Hannibal Hamlin.
I agree with CK’s point. Why in the world would Hillary want to rescue Obama from his fate?
I worked with a German woman once who explained to me that in large German corporations when they want to get rid of a semi-incompetent executive but the case is not good enough to recommend firing, they promote the person instead. By promoting somebody to their level of incompetence, enough ammunition is provided to justifying firing them.
In this vain, either Hillary will come to the conclusion that Obama can’t win without her, in which case she will refuse the VP slot to guarantee his defeat. Or, she will refuse the VP slot, even on the assumption that he will win, knowing that he will so botch things up and she will be waiting in the wings to pick up the pieces of the DP party after his debacle.
Stay clear Hillary, of dubious DP nominees bearing VP invitations.
Hillary is the best judge of what her ambition requires. We can only guess.