UPDATE** Clinton Suspends Her Campaign and Endorses Obama

Senator Clinton will at noon today at the National Building Museum in Washington, officially concede the nomination to Barack Obama and will offer her highly anticipated endorsement. To top it all off, former President Clinton, will also be there lending his ’support’ to Obama.

The huge question remains is how will Hillary Clinton switch it up from being highly critical to Obama’s experience, vision and politics, to praising confidence in his abilities to lead the nation? I don’t expect the GOP will let many forget what Clinton and the former President really thought of Obama’s candidacy. Furthermore, on Tuesday night she went straight to work undermining Obama’s victory in which he secured the required number of delegates for the nomination by continuously hitting on the fact that she was the leader in the popular vote.

“You asked yourself a simple question: ‘Who will be the strongest candidate? Who will be ready to take back the White House and take charge as commander-in-chief and lead our country to better tomorrows?’”

She using this to gain leverage and to show just how close the race actually was. Quite reasonably, the Obama camp is a bit perturbed by the rhetoric because Clinton fully understands that popular vote is not the way nominees are chosen and her efforts to underscore seems to be an attempt to undermine his legitimacy.

This was one of many examples of Hillary’s expected 180 degree turn will look once the media and the GOP begin to exploit it. It’s hard to imagine how one extreme will look compared to the other.

Here is something I provided free of charge. The Mecca of conservative blogs, Redstate,offered something that fits in nicely with what I and many others are starting to question. Continue to read the entire post as it gets really interesting on Obama and modern day politics.

…which is undoubtedly going to be brought up quite often, in light of Senator Clinton’s anticipated concession speech tonight. As Ed Morrissey noted: “Has Obama become safely complex since February?”

The problem for Hillary is that these statements stick because they have a great deal of truth in them. The RNC has a library of these comments ready for ads in the fall. Every time she hits the road for Obama, the Republicans will remind voters of Hillary’s real opinions of Barack Obama. She’ll either have to say she was lying then or come up with ridiculous rationales to pretend that Obama has overcome these gaping liabilities — and with Obama making gaffe after gaffe, those rationales will look very weak.