Hillary Clinton makes history (Well since the cats out of the bag)

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Almost eight years to the day after ending her first presidential bid while celebrating the 18 million cracks her supporters put in the “highest, hardest glass ceiling,” Hillary Clinton took a major step towards breaking through that final barrier Monday evening, and towards becoming the country’s first woman president.

Clinton surpassed the “magic number” of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic Party’s nomination, according to NBC News projects, to become the first woman in America’s 240 year history to be selected as the nominee of a major political party.

The projection, based on new commitments from superdelegates, came one day before voters in California and five other states were set to push Clinton over the threshold of delegates needed to claim the party’s presumptive nomination.

“It’s been an incredible journey,” Clinton told reporters Monday in California before she was declared the presumptive nominee. “My supporters are passionate. They are committed. They have voted for me in great numbers across our country for many reasons. But among those reasons is their belief that having a woman president will make a great statement, a historic statement, about what kind of country we are, what we stand for. It’s really emotional.”

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-makes-history

Very good read.