Sen. Clinton, a little lesson on grace…and lack thereof.  Grace is when you are about to make history by becoming the first African-American to become the presumptive nomininee of a major political party, you deflect the attention from you by speaking at length about how your opponent has made history with her extraordinary campaign.  Grace is when you are in the middle of making history, you do not even acknowlege why, but instead gives an entire speech on the issues facing our country and the next steps we as a nation need to take to resolve them. 

Grace is Not however,

…..forcing 23 members of Congress and 8 Senators to give you an ultimatum to drop out of this race by Friday or else. 

Grace is not…….with full knowlege of your opponent clinching the nomination, and after you have clearly lost the race, at your last speech of the primary being introduced as the next President of the United States. 

Grace is not…….in your final speech, when all of America is watching, attempting to deligitamize your opponents victory and the process because you came in second. 

Grace is not……allowing four days to pass before giving a formal concession thereby taking away from this historic moment. 

Grace is not…….refusing to acknowlege that your opponent has won the race. 

Grace is not……allowing the opposing party’s candidate to acknowlege that your opponent has won and you do not. 

Grace is not……..only agreeing to concede after your supporters start flipping to your opponent in droves. 

Grace is not……..taking a dig at your opponent in what should have been your concession speech.

Grace is not…..trying to strong arm your way on to your opponents ticket as VP by leveraging your concession. 

Grace is not…….attempting to hold your supporters hostage until you indulge your own selfish motives and attempting to use such supporters as a bargaining chip in the process. 

Grace is not…….stealing his moment by attempting to elbow your way into the narrative like a childish bully. 

Grace is not……..sending out an email one hour after your speech asking your supporters for their thoughts and rigging the feedback prompt so that your supporters can only respond one way and that is to check a box saying “yes I support you, keep fighting Hillary.” 

Grace is not……trying to accumulate enough of such emails so as to use them as leverage to either force your opponent to help you pay back your campaign debt, secure a spot at the Democratic convention, or get the VP nod. 

Grace is not….claiming 18 million voters as “your voters” as if they are brainwashed puppies who will follow and do whatever you command.  

Yes Sen. Clinton, how you handled your last days of this historic primary was much less than graceful.  The fact that this nation has come so far as to elect an African-American as leader of a major party is an achievement of monumental proportions.  Not to mention the testament to how far we have come as a country.  The fact that you took away from that moment with your selfish and childish antics is very difficult to wrap this writer’s head around.  Even your most ardent supporters, Ed Rendell and Charlie Rangel, spoke out against your actions.  Whomever is advising you, Mark Penn, you should fire immediately. Because your loss has been a foregone conclusion for at least a month, you have had plenty of time to wrap your head around it.  Your tone and words the night of the last two primaries left many people, including your supporters, speechless.  So this weak excuse being pushed by your surrogates that you needed time to bring your supporters along?….uhhh….they were expecting your concession Tuesday night.  People were ready to begin the process of unifying the party.  Obviously you had a different agenda…spite perhaps.  It was reported that you were asking undeclared superdelegates to wait until the day after June 3rd to give their endorsement to Obama.  Why?  Was it your intent to embarrass the Illinois senator on what should have been his night?  Then, when the superdelegates refuse to indulge your narcissistic plot you decided to sabotage the night yourself.  Well I guess the public outcry over your speech was an unexpected glitch in your plan.  Honestly, I do not think that you could have choreographed a worst exit.  Good job.