If by "the other side" she means Obama's supporters, she's correct. Most of us want the primary over so we can actually focus on McCain and still have a chance to win.

I don't want the race to end, I want the Tanya Harding tactics of the Clinton campaign to end. She is messing up our chances in November even though she has almost no chance of winning.

On hardball the other day they had a roundtable go over Hillary's motices and the consensus was that Hillary, if she can't win this year, would rather have McCain win this year so she could run against McSame in 2012. In other words if Hillary can't have it she wants the GOP to have it.

How is that for loyalty?

Greg
If some party "insiders" and "experts" have concluded that the last 10 states voting would do more harm than good, why not ask them why they are allowing this to go on? The superdelegates ARE the party insiders and experts!

In other words, why is the blame solely on Hillary, and not the superdelegates? What are they waiting for? Isn't this thee story why thus far they have not chosen to get behind Obama?

Cheers

It's also noteworthy that Hillary is asserting that continuing the contest could be good for the party

Well, if the Tigress of Tuzla said it, it must be true.

Voters also want more debates, more bickering and more Democratic dirty laundry in the media. Hillary could really do with a brief Caribbean vacation.

If Hillary had a 700,000 vote lead, a 150 pledged delegate lead, and won twice as many contests as Obama she would say this race is over and there would be non-stop calls for him to get out.

Her comments about Wright yesterday were most likely designed to deflect attention away from Bosnia and make the SDs think twice about supporting Obama, but this may boomerang back at her. The comments suggest she is going to continue the toxic kitchen sink strategy and maybe that will make a few SDs decide they can no longer sit on the sidelines and let this continue. She is anticipating this and trying to hold them off.

I believe the SDs would let this go all the way to the convention if Hillary were running a positive campaign. But, I think the longer she continues attacking Obama, the more SDs will want to shorten the rest of the process. Even some Clintonites will realize this can't go on too much longer.

Today's Rasmussen 4-day tracking shows Obama closing yesterday's 3-point deficit, probably indicating effect of Bosnia story on Clinton. Obama will likely regain his former lead, with Wright news offset by Bosnia news.

She's wrong about it being a close race. While it's true that the party has been somewhat evenly split about whether they prefer Obama or Clinton, it's clear at this point that significantly more prefer Obama, and there aren't enough races left to unravel that declared preference. Clinton has lost this race for the nomination and all that remains is running out the clock.

If Clinton wants to be Huckabee and stay in until the bitter end hoping for some scandal that really does make Obama untenable, that's fine. However, it's long past time for both candidates to train all of their remaining fire on McCain.

Even if there is a scandal that takes Obama out, it will almost certainly leave Clinton unelectable in November as well. That is particularly true if there is any suspicion that Clinton manufactured or introduced the scandal -- a suspicion that would be almost unavoidable at this point. So, she'd best hope that no scandal of that magnitude materializes.

Attacking Obama won't help her or the party, so it's time for both of them to start attacking McCain while running out the clock.

Of course Obama wants to shut this campaign down, everyone knows that Barack Obama blocked revotes in Florida and Michigan. Now he is hoping to disenfranchise all the remaining states as well.
The Politics of Nope!

As for the headline, Duh.

As for the race being close, I liked the Tanya Harding analogy. She will have to blow him up to even have a chance of swaying the SDs, but by then, the bitterness and disgust will put McCain in the White House.

When Obama has 50%+1 of the available pledged delegates Clinton will have the same chance to win as Al Gore. She can run around in garbage time scoring meaningless points and taking cheap shots but victory isn't something that is available after a certain point in a contest, even if there is still time left in said contest.

Geoffrey: You fool! As if it matters how a man falls down!
Richard: When the fall’s all that’s left, it matters a great deal.

After 50%+1 of the available pledged delegates are gone all that is left for Hillary Clinton is the fall. It will probably be a very ugly fall but that is the choice of Hillary Clinton, not Barack Obama.

Winning Ohio, New York and maybe Pennsylvania during a Democratic Primary does NOT guarantee you will ALSO win that State in the general election.

If anybody believes this they need to check their past primaries and general elections. Facts do not prove out.

Of course, Obama SUPPORTERS want Hillary to drop out. Their man would have been LONG GONE by now - we ALL know it. They only reason she's still in and being listened to is the MEDIA and DNC are giving her ABOVE and BEYOND the chances of winning.

Why are people calling Clinton Tonya Harding? Because that famous Clinton hater says so?

I am a liberal who loves reading blogs but I can't stand it anymore given the vitriol the Obama people have unleashed. Clinton made a substantive policy argument this week on the mortgage problem and nothing is said about that. Days are spent bashing her about a gaffe and Obama sits on the beach and gets a tan and McCain can't even spell economy. Give me a break!

YOu guys are just talking to yourselves and alienating fellow democrats like me.

Mary Anne

My mother, a 65 year old feminist and an ardent Clinton supporter (she drank so much Kool-Aid that she was offended that the Michigan results weren't counted) now accepts Obama as the nominee. She admits that it's over and is beginning to see how the Clinton "vetting" of Obama is no longer constructive. Certainly, the polls showing McCain moving ahead and Richardson's endorsement got her attention.

My sense is that Clinton's support must be softening. Internal polls must be indicating this trend. The erosion must be real enough that it emboldened Harry Reid to state publically that the party leadership will prevail upon her to quit.

The question is whether she will continue on with only limited support from the populace. My guess is that she will.

You know, there was a big surge in registration here in Pennsylvania.

There was! It was the Operation Chaos advocated by Rush Limbaugh encouraging Republican voters to switch parties and vote Dem (specifically for Hillary). This is vote fraud. Plain and simple. None of these "newly registered repubs for Hillary" people are going to support her in the GE.

But she does not care and actively seeks out right wing nutcases to push her talking points. I am vividly reminded of Scarlett O'Hara - "I won't think about that now. I'll think about that tomorrow" line.

Another favorite line is when Melanie scolds her for doing business with the yankees who robbed and murdered them.
Scarlett says "I know what people are saying about me and I don't care. I am going to make friends with the yankee carpetbaggers and I am going to beat them at their own game."

Eeerie isn't it?

Of course Obama wants to shut this campaign down, everyone knows that Barack Obama blocked revotes in Florida and Michigan. Now he is hoping to disenfranchise all the remaining states as well.
The Politics of Nope!

O O! And you know what? After he is elected, he is going to dissolve Congress and have himself crowned emperor.

And then he's going to make Rev. Wright his First Officer for Life and he's going to make us all sit and listen to Wright's outrageous statements for the next 10 years, or until we melt, whichever comes first.

O O! I also heard that Obama's an insect being from the planet OowOOt!

GO HILLARY! IN IT TO WIN!

wow, scanning these comments it's like walking into barack vader's death star. so much negativity! hope and change indeed!

Once again, Hillary blurs the facts. I think we'd like to see the attempt to break the DNC rules end. And the threat of calling the election illegitimate end.

It's fair to want to end an attempt to corrupt the process.

Does she really think she has a chance at winning the nomination? It looks more like she is running for president in 2012.

Well DUH Billary!

The Democratic Party wants to shut you down

The only good reason to drag it out this long is if Hill had a dramatically different policy for Iraq, health care, the environment. She doesn't.

Her only claim on the WH is she helped Bill run the place 10-15 years ago. Fine. You've had your time at center stage. Let the next generation build on that.

The GOP is perennially out of kilter. But at least they're not nominating Nancy Reagan.

Of course we want to shut down this race. Just look at what it's doing to the party. Doesn't Hillary realize that?!

In the Gallop poll that has Clinton supporters supporting McCain as a revenge vote, I say go right ahead. It's your vote. Do what you want with it. You're probably Republicans anyway. Isn't Hillary?

Obama is the only one who will get my vote so let the best man win (;-D) I'm going to vote my conscience. I will not vote for Clinton or McCain because they advocated this war that so many Clinton supporters detested.

So if I had to vote for Clinton should she get the nomination, I will not vote for her or McCain. There's no revenge vote. I just can't vote for someone who used a political calculus for an illegal occupation of a country that did not attack us.

Vast Right Wing Whore

Fallows: Clinton Circulating Obama Hit Piece from the American Spectator

She did an interview with Richard Mellon-Scaiffe..who's a whore to be choosy

http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/this_is_disgusting_clintons_mc.php

I am not a member of any organized party--I am a Democrat. Author: Will Rogers

You may not get a Dem President for 08. Perhaps you should ALL concentrate on making sure you get DEM Senate and Congressional seats won in November?

Just a thought.

Adding on to what hoppycalif2 said (12:54pm), gaining the presidency has been such a huge part of HRC's life for so many years, it's become who she is. It's her identity, the sum total of where she's aimed herself since she entered politics. Which is why she's fighting so hard, even finding an ally in a former enemy, Richard Mellon Scaife.

So, for her to give up will take more than a decision within her own circle.

Obama should not be the one shutting this down

the DNC leadership should be stepping in to stop this

I'm with you, Mary Anne--as far as I've seen, the VAST majority of the vitriol in this campaign (this site is certainly a good example) comes from Sen. Obama's supporters, and I've said on multiple occasions that if I were voting based merely on one candidate's supporters over the other, it would be a cold day in hell before I voted for Sen. Obama. However, I'm more concerned with a Dem winning in Nov., so I will vote for whomever is the nominee.

A lot of the hatred for the Clintons appears to me to be one of two things: (1) people who've been fooled by the Republicans for the past 16 years, and (2) misogyny. Many of Sen. Obama's supporters remind me of Stokely Carmichael saying that women's proper place in the civil rights movement was prone.

I will also never vote for McCain, but you can see by the polling that came out today that a lot of Dems and independents don't feel the same way I do. I continue to fear that if Sen. Obama is nominated, Sen. McCain will win.

Two words: Supreme Court. We can not afford this bullshit.

There is a proposal that would bring in the Super Delegates, AFTER, the last of the states have voted and have them make their decision sooner rather then later. They are going decide anyway. Let's just get it done and move on. We as a nation can not afford a McCain presidency and a conservative Supreme Court.

EVERYONE! needs to get that and do everything they can to make sure OUR candidate wins in November. I have lost all respect for Clinton, but will vote for her in November because that is what is best for my country.

Hillary: "He keeps saying he's the inevitable candidate, it's not fair!"

then make up your mind? is hillary really mccain? huckabee? satan?

"You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

This is not the first time you have seen Hillary Clinton seemingly at her wits' end, but she has always risen, always risen, don't forget she has always risen, much to the dismay of her adversaries and the delight of her friends."

- maya angelou on hillary clinton.

thought a lovely poem would quench the foul air nicely. yes, that's much better.

I was around to work for McCarthy and McGovern. I was frustrated and sad then about their losses. But never have I felt the sense of despair I feel today about the future of the democratic party and the rift that the Clintons have caused. I supported Hillary for months. Then the Clinton's behavior became so egregious that I could no longer stomach even watching them. So it was easy to switch allegience to Obama. The sad part is, and many have expressed it here, the Clintons are ripping our party apart.

I feel like the proverbial driver who stops to stare at a car wreck. Only I'm getting to the point that I have to turn away. I can't bear it.

Hillary is a pathological liar! She lied about NAFTA, lied about SCHIPS Program, lied about Bosnia! She lied, lied, lied!

Who in their right mind would vote for this liar to answer a 3:00am phone call! She can't be trusted!