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BREAKING NEWS: AP says Obama clinches Dem nomination; When will Clinton concede?

On the final day with the last two Democratic primaries in Montana and South Dakota, the Associated Press is reporting that Illinois Sen. Barack Obama has accumulated sufficient delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination for president at the party's National Convention in Denver come August.

Now, the next question is when will New York Sen. Hillary Clinton concede?

When do you think she should give up? Now? Tonight after all voting? Tomorrow? Never, fight on? See Comments below.

--Andrew Malcolm

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I love this guy foreign policy that he has instore.

I personally believe if he can beat Clinton McCain is no match!!!!

Hillary wins
Republicans are the victors.

check hillaries live speech.

[quote="The_Patriot"]check hillaries live speech.[/quote]



Patriot... I am watching live Hillary tv, she sounds like she won the Nomination! Unbelievable woman walle.

The_Patriot wrote:check hillaries live speech.

war I can't stand that women wallahi. She makes me sick to my stomach.

MCcain is the next president expect more deaths in the Muslim world.

CNN!

@LOL


Somalian_Boqor loool Waryaa dont her too much, please understand she worked hard. Dont be a sexist.

wallahi I am not a sexist I just can't stand her period!!!

I know she worked hard but the lady has to understand when to put the arms down. She is acting like a war-lord.

[quote="Somalian_Boqor"]wallahi I am not a sexist I just can't stand her period!!!

I know she worked hard but the lady has to understand when to put the arms down. She is acting like a war-lord. [/quote]

History In The Making!!



Obama Becomes First Black Democratic Presidential Nominee
The Third African American Senator Since Reconstruction Makes History


By JENNIFER PARKER
June 3, 2008

RSS After a bruising battle, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has won enough delegates to clinch the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, ABC News projects based on exit polls and reporting.

Obama, D-Ill., becomes the first African-American major party presidential candidate in the nation's history.

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. announces his candidacy for president of the United States at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Saturday, Feb. 10, 2007.
(Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Photo)But the candidate emerges battered after a bitter, five-month fight against Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., who was vying to become the party's first female presidential nominee and was once considered the likely nominee.

Delivering soaring speeches tied to a popular message of hope and change, Obama's insurgent candidacy inspired record-breaking campaign contributions, record turnout by black voters, and wide support from independents, liberals, young voters, and high-income, better-educated Democrats.

Although he won the majority of primary contests -- 33 to Clinton's 20, not including Michigan and Florida -- the Illinois senator struggled to win the support of white, blue-collar voters, older voters and Hispanic voters.

The issue of race cropped up again and again for the man seeking to become the nation's first black president.

When tapes of Obama's longtime pastor excoriating America surfaced, the Illinois senator distanced himself from his pastor, and ultimately from his Chicago church, delivering a widely applauded speech on race and religion.

If Obama is elected president, he will be, at 47, among the youngest presidents in history. His Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., would be the oldest presidential candidate to win a first term in office at age 72.


Obama's Rise
No stranger to record books, Obama, became the fifth African-American senator in U.S. history and was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.

Born to a white, American mother and a black, Kenyan father, Obama has spoken openly of his struggle to find acceptance in the black community.

First living in Hawaii, Obama's family moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, when he was 6, where he lived for a time with his mother and Indonesian stepfather. He has credited his upbringing for making him sensitive to America's flagging image abroad.

Attending Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama worked as a community organizer, a constitutional law professor, and a lawyer in Chicago before becoming a senator in the Illinois state Senate in 1996.