The audacity of nope

It's no less than amazing that the entire Democratic party has waited five days past the unofficial selection of a nominee to let Hillary Clinton finally accept what most people have known since the end of February -- that voters had the audacity to choose Barack Obama over her.

Much has been written about the strategy that allowed Barack Obama to rack up 11 straight wins in February and in the process, build an insurmountable lead. But the legendary No Surrender campaign told us that the 11 state sweep and 100 delegate lead didn't matter. Ohio and Texas were the states that were important. So we all waited for those two, and after she won the popular vote in both --and lost the delegates in Texas -- the basic math had not changed. Neither had the audacity.

We were told to look to Pennsylvania, to ignore caucus states, to count the censured Florida and Michigan, to focus only on the large states she won, to focus exclusively on the popular vote. And while we focused on the incredible morphing metrics, we conveniently overlooked that the delegate count remained insurmountable.

Superdelegates began eroding in March. A 100 plus superdelagate lead began dwindling to the point that it was completely erased. We settled the Michigan and Florida debacles. Networks began the delegate countdown clocks. And early Tuesday evening, virtually every news organization made it official, Barack Obama was the nominee.

Yet here we are five days later, waiting for Hillary to admit what has been general knowledge around the globe. The election was hers to lose, now, despite losing, she acts like it is hers to confer.

The audacity.