1.0 link 101618 <![CDATA[Hillary Agonistes: Why Doesn't She Concede?]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/13/hillary-agonistes-why-doe_n_101618.html As the odds get longer and longer, the obvious question is: Why doesn't Hillary Clinton gracefully concede defeat and throw her support behind her party's defacto nominee, Barack Obama?

As my colleague at Salon, Walter Shapiro puts it: "What motivates her? Is it ambition, pride, feminism, vindication, public service or ideology? Or is it some combination of all of them?"

Mary Sanchez, writing for the Kansas City Star, is more blunt: Hillary should scram:

'A lady always knows when to...
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