Obama just cut in on Clinton's speech. On the one hand, I sympathize with the intent. She wasn't giving a concession tonight -- she lost, but it didn't count, so no concession needed -- but instead using the tradition of the concession speech to offer a nationally televised "contrast" speech, in which she said things like "only one of us is ready on day one to be commander in chief, ready to manage our economy, and ready to defeat the Republicans. Only one of us has spent 35 years being a doer, a fighter and a champion for those who need a voice." Obama, realizing he owned the airwaves, started right over her. And why not? Why give her airtime to bash him? On the other hand, it could look churlish if the media spends a lot of time reporting on the slight. And on the third hand -- we've got lots of hands, we're liberals -- that's some hardball politics from Obama. In any case: Drama! Update: Ben Smith says it was Clinton who changed her speech time to preempt Obama. That didn't work very well.
