"I have no intention of stopping until we finish what we started and until we see what happens in the next 10 contests and until we resolve Florida and Michigan. And if we don't resolve it, we'll resolve it at the convention -- that's what credentials committees are for."

So this is the new public raison d'etre for the continuation of the Clinton campaign: she must take this all the way to Denver to make sure every vote counts, she must fight for the rights of Michiganders and Floridians if no one else will.

Reading between the lines, I see this as a signal by Hillary to the superdelegates that she isn't going to quit ... they're going to have to step in themselves and end this.  She knows that the last thing the superdels want is a bloody convention fight.  Dean and others are already on record saying they want this thing settled a couple months before the convention.  So, Hillary ups the ante, she won't go quietly into that great night, signaling to the party leadership that they'll have to take her out themselves.

Why?  She must see the writing on the wall.  She must understand this is over for all intents and purposes.  But, once the dust settles, she wants to be able to claim that she was unjustly pushed out while attempting to stand up against voter disenfranchisement.  She wanted all the votes to count, "they" didn't. 

This is the 2012 set up:  she's not the party insider we all thought she was (despite the fact Bill is an ex pres).  She's the real outsider.  The insiders shut her down before the race was really over; they stole it from her and from the people whose rights she was fighting to vindicate.  With this narrative, she will set herself up as the outsider we need in 2012 to bring real change after Bush-Bush-McCain.  This will also be a justification for a luke-warm at best endorsement of Obama heading into the general.  I mean, how can she really go out and stump for a candidate when she has been unfairly pushed aside by the powers that be?

This race will never come down to the convention floor.  The leadership won't allow that to happen.  Hillary is signaling that they must take action to avoid this nightmare, she will not spare them that inevitably controversial decision.  She's letting them know that the blood will have to be on their hands.

Thanks Hillary.  Ever doing what makes your party stronger.  What leadership.