Christopher K had the most accurate summation of the issue so far.

I find it impossible to believe that sexism is more damaging to HRC than racism is to Obama.

The sad fact is that HRC is a polarizing personality, and the Clintons piss off people like nobody's business. The fact she's in denial about this, proclaiming herself the superior candidate, is almost staggering. My mother, white republican from OK would rather vote Obama than Clinton. But she's got an out with McCain because she finds him acceptable. Oh well.

All of this vitriol is down to one source: HRC and her refusal to take the high road, casting aspersions on the legitimacy of the process, and in so doing creating anger and disaffection among her supporters.

I dreaded HRC running for just this reason. Not because I think a woman is ill-suited to be president. Far from it. Simply because no one polarizes like a Clinton. And as this campaign has wound on, she's worked the magic again.

Her supporters are feeling cheated and robbed and angry. Obama's supporters are getting frustrated and fed up. That she doesn't face up to what the message of her campaign has become is phenomenally narcissistic. That her supporters continue behind her is not surprising, but that they're getting sucked into HRC's victim narrative is truly disappointing.

But I've come to the point where I'm sick of being childishly threatened by all these so-called Democrats. If you want to bolt, fine. Go ahead. Get sucked into a cult of personality and/or identity politics (which is what you ironically accuse most Obama supporters of doing), elevate HRC's fortunes above those of the country and its women. That'll work for all of us.

Given such miniscule differences between HRC and Obama's stated positions, how is it that Obama is under such an onerous obligation to reach out to these voters any more than any other group?

This is what I don't understand. "He's got to mend fences."

As far as I can see, the only one wrecking fences is HRC. Obama's campaign has been about as clean as they come.

Exactly...

How do HRC's supporters think that BHO supporters will rally around her if she somehow succeeds in this scorched-earth campaign?

There seems to be this implicit assumption that if she wins, all's well. Even when her victory would have to be enormously controversial.

How exactly would Obama's victory be controversial at all? Because HRC is playing the victim? What has he done or said that's been controversial? Has he impugned the integrity of the process? Has he run down HRC? What, exactly, has he done wrong? How would his victory be controversial, other than it is simply wasn't a coronation for HRC, who would, in my mind, inevitably go down to defeat in the general anyway because she pisses people off on the right like no one else on earth. Republicans who might otherwise be demoralized or un-enthused would suddenly have a new lease on life. The money spigots would open. The Clinton years would be rehashed relentlessly.

I mean, I really and truly do not get this.

Please give it a rest. HRC is fanning the flames of outrage and victimhood. And then she has the bad sense to use the word "assassination", in any context, when she's talking about whether or not to leave the race against the first black male candidate that might actually be a major-party nominee!

Come on. I understand the generous explanation, and I probably even buy it. But that choice of this example instead of many other possible ones, was weird. Creepy. A Freudian slip, perhaps.

But a new low in "Clinton bashing?" I mean, wasn't she already about the most polarizing female candidate possible? Perhaps the most polarizing candidate possible?

All of this "bashing" is just a prelude to what would happen in a general. She's simply unelectable, and always has been. I cringed at the prospect of her entering the race, and those misgivings have been proved right.

For my daughter's sake, I'd love to see a female president, and soon. But HRC was never ever going to be that person. And the way she's winding down her campaign is the best evidence why.

He could say, "At least I've never called my wife a cunt."