Lanny Davis just appeared on "Morning Joeless," and gave the clearest indication yet that Hillary isn't pulling out until votes have actually been cast at the Convention. He told Mika Brzezinski that it definitely won't be over next week, and that until the votes are actually cast at the Convention, including the votes from Florida and Michigan, this contest will continue.
He continued with a bunch of blather about how Hillary is the stronger candidate in the general election, and that superdelegates should exercise their own independent judgment about who will be the stronger candidate. The rather clear implication was that even the superdelegates who have already declared for Obama should change their minds.
There's an old saying that goes, "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight." My advice to the Obama campaign is that Hillary has declared that the time between now and the Convention is a gun fight, and she's bringing a machine gun. Please, please, PLEASE don't get complacent and agree to a "compromise" in which we're the only side that compromises.
My personal fear is that the Obama campaign is making a very serious mistake by trying to be "reasonable" with somebody who is manifestly unwilling to be reasonable. I'd take the position that the rules under which everybody operated were that Michigan and Florida's votes didn't count, and it was too late to change them now. I'd also take the position that if Hillary's supporters were being urged to demonstrate at the Rules and Bylaws Committee meeting, Obama supporters should be, too. Otherwise, what happens Saturday is, I fear, going to be portrayed in the media as evidence of an "outpouring of public support" for Hillary, and that the absence of any countervailing demonstations for Obama is going to be seen as evidence of an absence of such support (or at least weakness in that support).
Barack has been trying to be respectful, but as far as I'm concerned, Hillary is entitled to precisely the same respect from the Obama campaign as she's been giving to it, and at this point, that appears to be zero.