Hilary Rosen became persona non-grata in this technologist's household for her years at the RIAA. She almost single-handedly killed creative freedom of expression thanks to the war she waged against the fair use of copyrighted materials. We really don't like her legacy at all.

So when I heard the former lobbyist had joined the Hillary Clinton campaign, I wasn't shocked. It made perfect sense. The lobbyist and the lobbyist loving politician. WTF.

Yet, grock how the woman grated the crap out of me every time I'd see her on CNN vigorously defending Hillary Clinton's shenanigans on the campaign trail. Last night though, she had a quick appearance during the election coverage and I noticed something different.

People were discussing Hillary Clinton's non-concession speech and you could see that Rosen was really more than pissed, she was truly disappointed. So when I read her post on Wednesday's Huffington Post, I wasn't just blown away for how candid it was. I really got that it was heartfelt and sincere :
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Hillary Clinton squandered last night the opportunity of a lifetime.

She could have taken that moment to praise her supporters, praised Barack Obama as the rightful nominee of the Democratic Party and put herself as the bridge builder who would bring party unity to the convention floor in Denver and Obama as the new President of the United States in November.

Hillary Clinton had the opportunity to become a sheroe on her last 5 minutes as candidate for the nomination. She had the opportunity to become a larger than life figure, and example of resilience, smart, wit and grace under pressure.

Instead she chose to be the The Bitch.

Bitches have some or all of the following characteristics.
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Last night was a truly historic moment and Hillary Clinton made history for all the wrong reasons. Instead of conceding to Barack Obama, instead of declaring him the rightful winner and instead of turning her followers' attention to him as the legitimate nominee, she chose to turn the moment into a show of force against Obama.

Jeffrey Toobin of CNN described it as a moment of "deranged narcissism" while Carl Bernstein described it as "another Clinton foundling drama".

What's makes the picture of a derange narcissist worse is the arrogance with which many a defender would describe her "non-concession" speech : that she needs to take her time, that she needs space, that she's earned her right not to concede immediately, that Obama needs to watch out and make sure he doesn't hurt her feelings or slight her or say the wrong thing, etc. etc.

And let's not even get into the psychopathic ruse of claiming she's won 18 million votes in the course of this election.
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The News Hour with Jim Lehrer twitter alerts are a must for anybody who wants to have the immediate scoop on what's happening with the elections. They just dropped this number : 27 superdelegagtes in one day.

Baratunde rounded up that nugget by twittering that Obama needs only 10 more delegates to reach the "magic number" of 2,118 delegates.

Town Hall is saying that John McCain is calling it for Obama by effectively scheduling a speech tonight. I think Red State beat McCain to it by first, real "Obama is a radical" kind of post.

By the way : I hear, but have not confirmed, that Hillary Clinton only picked up one superdelegate today.

1. Get a former CIA Psy Ops agent to do the dirty work of smearing your opponents wife even with the fear of a taped racist rant that doesn't really exit.

2. Have your husband say on the campaign trail it's his last day of doing anything like this, especially after it was reported it cut into his boinking time with Gina Gershon.

3. Have your campaign manager say the morning after on TV that you'll concede "if the right amount of numbers are in today or tomorrow".

4. Then have your other campaign manager go on the record as saying you are not conceding at all.
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AP is saying Clinton is indeed getting ready to concede. Yet word in the blogosphere is that she is not conceding but may be suspending her campaign. Others are betting she's taking it all the way the convention floor for those meager 4 Michigan delegates she claims were "stolen" from her.

Stay tuned. I'll be updating throughout the day.