I am tired of hearing what a victim Hillary is. She has used racism and sexism to her advantage at every turn in this campaign. Her strongest backers are older white women who view her as their last possible chance to see a woman president in their lifetimes. It is a fantasy at this point. The race is over. Hillary has been given time to bow out gracefully before her comrades push her out. Instead of taking advantage of that opportunity, she has worked hard to strengthen the divide in the party.

Clinton has gone from using Karl Rove's playbook to actually using his charts. From Bill Clinton's Jesse Jackson comments to campaign staff gloating that Obama was being marginalized as "the black candidate" to Hillary's "white people love me" comments of the last few weeks, the Clinton campaign has used race as a tool.

Every time she started slipping in the polls, Hillary would cry, or say that the "boys were picking on her" or blame the "sexist" media. She has used her gender as crutch and as a weapon.

Was the media unfairly biased against Hillay Clinton? NO! They are the ones who annointed her the presumed nominee back in 2004. They carried the muslim-gate, Wright-gate, plagiarism-gate and other bogus-gates stories. They ran with them. They almost NEVER mentioned that it was the Clinton campaign fueling these faux scandals. Both sides got trashed by the media. That is standard practice in a presidential campaign.

How many stories have we seen about what happened in Vince Foster's office the night he died? How many stories about the incredible disappearing/reappearing Whitewater files? How many about what a disaster her first attempt at health care reform was and the role it played in the massacre that was the 1994 elections? How many about Travel-gate? The media has played softball with Clinton. There are serious issues with a Hillary nomination that were all but ignored by the mainstream media. But in typical Rove-Nixon fashion, she blamed the media.

Is the media being nice to Hillary now? NO! Should they be? NO! She has become a joke. Her lastest one-liner is that her votes from Michigan MUST count and Obama cannot get any, since he wasn't on the ballot. Of course the media isn't taking her seriously anymore. No reasonable person would.

What I find truly sad is the damage that she is doing to the Clinton brand. Bill Clinton has all but destroyed what little dignity he had left trying to get Hillary elected. He campaigned for Hillary in a way that is at odds with with his intellectual capacity and his empathetic tendancies. Strip those away and we are left with a womanizing pervert. Sad for a man who was so worried about his legacy.

What I found more disturbing is the damage that this campaign could be doing to Chelsea's prospects. Hillary's faux anger aside, she HAS pimped Chelsea out. And Chelsea let it happen. I was saying in the mid-1990s that I thought Chelsea would be the first woman president. I don't know that I could back her now. I know that Hillary is her mother, but Chelsea is a grown woman. She could easily have said "Mom, I will campaign my heart out for you, but I am not going to try to get the superdelegates to ignore the will of the people for you." Loyalty above principles is what the Bush team is about and is is disheartening to see it in someone who could have been a big part of the future of the democratic party.

The election in Florida was NOT a true reflection of the will of the voters. There was no campaigning (other than Clinton's 11th hour pandering, suggesting that SHE would get them seated). The people knew going in that the election was not valid. It is impossible to know how many stayed home knowing that it didn't matter. Any claim that the results in Florida are a definitive representation of the views of Florida Democrats is just a mindless repetition of Clinton talking points.

Given that, awarding delegates based on the primary (which favored the candidate with the famous name due to the lack of campaigning) results, isn't really fair. Offering to accept this is a magnanimous gesture on Obama's part. Compare this to Clinton's "Obama should get nothing from Michigan" position. It is clear who cares about party unity.

I believe that the Obama approach to the superdelegates is far better than the Ausman approach, but still flawed. The superdelegates are the Florida and Michigan democratic powers-that-be, i.e. the ones who screwed this up to begin with. These superdelegates deserve to be shut out completely (seated, but with no vote). While that probably won't happen, punishing the voters more than the idiots who made this mess to begin with would be outrageous.

Obama has made his gesture toward Clinton on Florida and gone beyond what fairness requires. It is Hillary's turn to do the same in Michigan.