Olberman clearly meant what he said metaphorically, like someone influential sitting her down and telling her that she cannot win, but if she stays in the race she paves her way for a McCain presidency. On the other hand, Clinton supporters ignore the racism the Clinton camp has been using against Obama and the almost explicit threat that if it isn't Clinton, they would rather have McCain over Obama. Not to mention the constant changing of the rules-suddenly Florida and Michigan should count, the popular vote doesn't count because it includes many independent and cross over Republican who voted for Obama, wait a minute, it does count, since Clinton thinks she can overtake him in the popular vote, but pledged delegates don't count, since she has no chance of winning a majority of those. What Clinton is telling the party is that any outcome that doesn't guarantee her nomination is unacceptable to her. Apparently, this doesn't bother Joan Walsh at the least, unlike Olberman's metaphor.

and see what happens when a lunatic gets off her medication.

Blue color under-educated whites, or "Reagan Democrats" have been Clinton's main constituency. They are not going to vote for a Harvard educated black candidate who makes them feel even worse about their miserable lives, and by a 2 to 1 they are going to vote for the Republican presidential nominee in the general election. Because Republicans have been so successful at appealing to their lizard brain, they keep voting in the general on emotional, mostly phony issues for the candidates who hit them the hardest. This is the only reason for the stalemate, or "not closing the deal", not Obama's weakness. Clinton is appealing to that demographics by using racist innuend, but the Democrats cannot and should not count on Reagan Democrats who don't vote Democrat come November. They can win without them if they increase their appeal to young people and independents which Obama has done with unprecedented success.

and demand that Hillary formally join the GOP, which she supported until she was about 21 and which she never really left emotionally. Demand that she go where she actually belongs and our party would be much better off.

He would be better served if he searched for Noah's ark, since he would stand a much better chance of finding it than the WMD.

The undecided super delegates will break for the Obama, the candidate with a majority of pledged delegates and popular votes. The Clinton camp will say that decision is null and void since the Florida and Michigan delegations have been denied a vote, which is undemocratic, so they will go all the way to the supreme court to deny Obama's certification as the Democratic party's candidate. It will be Florida 2000 all over again, and it will drag into October. All the while Joan Walsh will say that the democratic and legal process needs to run its course and there should be no attempt made by the DNC to force the issue, because there's no rush.

Bush has always believed that he was owed the presidency and that getting an actual majority of voters was a small tedious detail that would be taken care of by Carl Rove, the Supreme Court and his daddy's cronies. Hillary Clinton thinks just like him. The fact she's behind in the delegate count and popular vote and has no chance of overtaking Obama, means nothing to her. She believes the nomination belongs to her and that it's the duty of the DNC to finagle a way to make her the nominee, although she has lost the nomination process. Beyond the disgusting fact that although most of her voters aren't racist, she gets her margin of victory in states with large older, white, undereducated demographics from a group of voters who is racist and ignorant, would never vote for a black candidate, and tends to vote for the GOP presidential candidate.

Hillary ran as a caste member of The Deer Hunter, playing Russian roulette in this instance with the Democratic Party’s chance for the White House and control of Congress. In the final days of the campaign she rhetorically obliterated Iran with the clear implication that this is what real Presidents do, whether at 3 am, after breakfast or before dinner. What was Obama meant to do? Come on as a gun-toting black man? The Pennsylvania State Troopers would have gunned him down.

Hillary must know that she cannot possibly win the nomination by any rational standard. Hence the comic moment on Tuesday when her finance chairman Terry McAuliffe was asked to define what Mrs Clinton would invoke as a fair claim on the Democratic nomination. McAuliffe said it would either be a victory in the popular vote in Democratic primaries and caucuses - including Michigan and Florida – (a very remote contingency) or a lead in the pledged delegates (an impossibility) or a lead among Superdelegates (among whom, since March 6, HRC has collected 12 and Obama 88) or there would be a consensus among party leaders that Obama is incapable of beating McCain. Obama is still ahead of McCain, though thanks to Mrs Clinton’s efforts the margin is narrowing.

In other words there’s no rational scenario here, except the her real Hillary plan to ensure a McCain victory this year and come back in 2012.