So much for going gracefully. USAToday:
Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters -- including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.""There's a pattern emerging here," she said.
H/T: The Plank
UPDATE: And Josh Marshall is absolutely right - whatever the terms and conditions, please do not think that Obama's 1.5 million small donors will be repaying either your personal loans or your $5+ million debt to Mark Penn. you gave the money to yourself to help yourself, and there's no reason you should expect anyone other than your own friends (if that!) to help you repay it.
UPDATE II: More nonsense, this time via TPMe:
"Do you know difficult it is for women to stand up and say we are the best at anything?" Clinton said last night at a "Generations of Women for Hillary" fundraiser in Washington. "The Democratic Party has to know that women are the core, women have to be at the table and women are going to be heard as we continue in these contests until they finally end."
Sen. Clinton, do you know how ridiculous this sounds to the generation of young women coming out of college today? Do you not realize how much the world has already changed? How much you and your generation have already changed the world? Please do not project your own ideas and beliefs, no matter how widely they might be shared by those around you, out on to the entire world. Look around you. Yes, there is still much work to be done, and there always will be. But look at the success you and your cohort have achieved!
More specifically, who precisely do you think believes or has said that women don't deserve a seat at the table in the Democratic Party? Who has said that women's voices should not be heard? I'd really like to know, because to my knowledge no one in your party in this campaign has ever said such a thing. Unless, of course, you interpret suggestions that you should go away as suggestions that all women should go away. But you of course are not all women. You are one woman, nothing more. Your campaign may be symbolic, but symbols can only be taken so far.
You may not realize it, but you are doing a disservice to the movement you claim to represent. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the basic premise of feminism that all women should be treated equally as individuals? That it was a mistake to make gross generalizations about anyone based on their sex and gender? Wasn't the point to get beyond simple categories to recognize that everyone should be valued equally as an individual? If so, then why are you acting as if all women are the same, and as if your unique situation is somehow representative of the situation of all of the women in the Democratic Party?
This is as nonsensical as your "I'm a hard-working, blue collar girl" narrative that you picked up these past few weeks. You are a United States Senator. You are one of the most powerful people in the world. On a planet of 6.6 billion people, you are among a very, very tiny handful of elites. Even among the world's elites, you would be considered an elite. You are rich and powerful beyond most people's wildest dreams. Relative to the people you claim to want to represent, you are no more disadvantaged than you are working class. You are quite literally privileged in every sense of the word. To claim victimhood renders the concept meaningless. Life isn't perfect, and it never will be. There will always be challenges. But you, a victim? Please just stop. Please just go away. You aren't helping anyone with this. Please just stop.
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