Hillary takes the advice.  This is DR.

Yesterday I suggested that there was an exit strategy for Hillary Clinton.  She didn't have to drop out of the race right away.  She could do something more subtle.  Something clever.  Something that would make those Republicans who supported Operation Chaos slap their foreheads in frustration.

SHe could go positive.  She could continue to run, without saying nasty things about Barack Obama, and lettign her supporters down gently.  Paving the way for unity.

There are some insiders sayign today that's exactly what she'll do.  That she'll surrender in June at the latest so that tis doesn't go to the convention..

But if the memo's gone out, she's not letting on yet:

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And Bill sure hasn't read it.  He's still out there fighting-- woe to the person who dared stand up in West Virghinia and said his wife hadn't done enough for national health care:

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It is hard to let go.

But today, while the pictures show Bill and Hillary still in the trenches fighting, they show Barack Obama surrounded by important looking people wearing dark suits on Capitol Hill.  

It's been a long road since that day in Iowa that she got the cold shower:

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There has always been some excuse for coming up short... but at some point, you're just fighting on for the sake of fighing on.

Now this.

Let's rewind -- January 3, 2008, the day after she lost the Iowa Caucuses -- the day she realized the Obama phenomenon was for real.

lost the It reminded ... because they never dreamed she would do it...

predicted she was acabkle of acting Lawrene O'Donnell told the Huffingoton Post that the Clinton campaign will continue through the last primary.

But you'll see soething different.

A new tone a positive tone.

Yes, the general election is different from the primaries. But far from being an especially protracted Democratic primary, this one is right on historical track. June is actually the magic month, in which the Democratic nomination was clinched in 1992 by Bill Clinton; in 1988 by Dukakis (Jesse Jackson didn't withdraw until June); in 1984 by Mondale (who didn't officially gain the nomination until the convention in July); in 1976 by Carter; and in 1972, the first year in which the present primary system operated, by McGovern. The only exception to the June rule was the 1980 election, in which Edward Kennedy fought on against Carter all the way until the convention in August. Only in the last two elections, in other words, has the Democratic nomination been a foregone conclusion this early in the primary process. And neither the results of 2000 or 2004 should send Democrats rushing to foreclose their options.

n South Dakota on Thursday, she didn't mention his name. Instead, she spooled out her policy positions and spoke glowingly about the achievements of her husband's White House.