Please check your spine at the door please, this is the US Senate. It's good practice for Hillary to start ignoring Leahy now - as President it's practically obligatory.

I worry that these calls for Hillary's resignation will backfire. Hillary has consistently done well in the role of the beleaguered victim of the media and the party--as demonstrated in both NH and TX/OH.

I think for Senator Clinton to stay in this nomination any longer requires a "willful suspension of disbelief" on her behalf.

"I feel that she would have a tremendous career in the Senate"....hint hint from Leahy....drop out soon and that is true. Keep going and that will not be true.

This will embolden others. Not sure how that genie gets put back in the bottle.

As irrational and frustrating as it is, that is my concern too. And there's no sign she's not going to brazen it out and keep fighting kneecapping for all she's worth.

Since when did the Clintons care anything about the Democratic Party? They'll just turn this around as Obama's people calling on an end to the democratic process while Hillary is committed to having every voice heard, or some such nonsense.

"I feel that she would have a tremendous career in the Senate"....hint hint from Leahy....drop out soon and that is true. Keep going and that will not be true.

That's how I read that, too.

I thought something was going on. I think I was right.

I agree with Leahy except for this line: "Frankly I feel that she would have a tremendous career in the Senate."

Given the polling data showing the number of defections of supporters of each candidate if the other gets the nomination, like it or not, or even hate it or not, Obama needs Hillary to be the VP.

Snowball? Avalanche.

Or, maybe, Judas - icing on the wuss cake (seeing as how it's now, somehow, become impolitic to pick a side).

...and Hillary's recent concessional tone in affirming Obama and herself and asking her supporters not to vote for McCain... seems another indicator of party insider talk reaching her regarding a desire to resolve this before it gets uglier. I don't believe she came to that out of the goodness of her heart, but because someone has begun to give her realism about the consequences (for her career) of fomenting party civil war.

The more I think about this, the more I think that this has to play itself out until close to the end of the primary season. Clinton supporters will be angry and disaffected if it looks like the supers forced her out of the race early, as Obama supporters would if supers forced him out of the race. It doesn't matter that Clinton doesn't have a real shot. As long as there is a widespread perception that she still has a chance, her supporters will feel that she was forced out early. After PA, NC, IN, it should be pretty clear to everyone that Hillary cannot win the popular vote and cannot win the pledged delegates, and at that point, I think the superdelegates can safely end the race.

and at that point, I think the superdelegates can safely end the race.

I think that will happen - they are all talking the first of July for a finish for this - just prior to the convention to keep it from becoming a floor brawl that has people walking out.

And I think that's true -it needs to end before there is a big war on the floor of the convention. That does nothing but tear the party apart and insure the McCain is the next president.

She's not going anywhere, she is delighted to be the center of attention . . .

My concern hasn't been about continuing the process, it's been the nastiness. I would love to see this go all the way to the convention, so long as neither side took jabs at the other on anything other than policy grounds. I think three more months of "we're both great candidates, but I'm better," would be fantastic. But all the kneecapping is waste.

My suggestion is that the higher lights of the party put together a "conditions" document on which they assert they'll withdraw their support from any campaign that crosses the line on race, gender, etc., etc. That is, when a candidate or a candidate's officials start attacking on personal, not policy, grounds. Basically, it'd be some sort of commitment to force Howard Wolfson to shut his bald face. And, really, wouldn't that make a better world for all of us?

can Clinton do the gracious thing and drop out? it will be a test of her character ... sorry for the cynical take, but I predict "failure": she will only go when forced, and it does seem like the "forcing" has begun. Good. Some people are clueless and stubborn and just never take the hint.

Hey, hey, hey! Don't be hating on the Krugman! I say this as a serious Obama fan. He was the one solid voice we Bush derangement syndrome suffers could read in the MSM for years, and we owe him a debt of gratitude for that.

Do anyone thinks she will listen? Yeah, just what I thought...she won't.

I'd love for Clinton to be Obama's running mate - I would.

Don't go there. Not even in your imagination.

Clintons is a magnet for MSM sniper fire.
Huge downside. No upside.
Only Bush and Cheney have higher negs.

She has way too many lies caught on tape.

This line spoken with such glib authority:

"I don't remember anyone offering me tea on the tarmac."

She is not a confirmed phony.
She'll be lucky to get reelected in the Senate.

Hillary will see the light after she loses to Obama in Pennsylvania 51-49%.
You can take that to the bank.

First, Leahy is relating what he thinks not calling for to step down-though I'm sure that is irrelevant for Clinton supporter purposes. Second, circumstances may force her to resign. That circumstance is money.

Ok Ok - I take it back about Clinton being Obama's running mate.

I have rethought in light of the overwhelming response!

LOL!

I just want to see us get back to the business of kicking Repug asses, hard. I'm so ready for that -

Howard for VP

Call for w and cheney to resign.
Posted by gotalife

Exactly! If they'd just follow Hillary's lead on this... oh, wait...