I don’t get this new willingness on the part of Hillary Clinton to make a deal with Barack Obama. Wasn’t the time to make a deal back when the outcome was still in doubt? Then, she could offer Obama certainty of the nomination, and the savings of having to campaign in the remaining states.
Now that the outcome is no longer in doubt, and Obama’s already spent the time and money campaigning in states that Clinton refused to concede, what does she have to offer in exchange for the vice presidency, cabinet posts, or cash prizes? It can’t be her support in the general election, because if she refuses to aggressively support Obama against McCain she’ll finally and definitively be revealed to be the unprincipled, shameless careerist her worst detractors imagine her to be.
Her attempts to cut a deal now seem similar to an accused criminal suddenly trying to plea bargain after the jury foreman has already pronounced the syllable "Guil…."
UPDATE 6/5: And now it’s over. Who knows what deal was actually made.