Too easy.

"So... why does Clinton have to drop out?"

Cause she is the loser.

"Why can't Obama and the DNC simply wait until the votes are over and Obama has a majority and then declare him the winner?"

Because he already has the majority. If you were concerned with Dems winning the whitehouse you'd want Obama to have as much time as possible to prep for GE along with Hill and Bill's support to get their supporters to vote for Obama. But thats ONLY if you want the Dems in the whitehouse.

"Why is this all on Clinton's head?"

Cause she's the loser. Makes no sense for the winner to drop out.

"There are procedures in place for determining who wins the primary. Why not follow them instead of insisting that one of the candidates drops out?"

Class? Dignity? Not wanting to damage the party with in-fighting? Wanting time to rally the troops to make sure a Dem is in the whitehouse?

"If Clinton is no threat to Obama... then who cares if she stays in. What is she going to do? Tell people that Obama is not experienced enough to be President?"

Who said she is no threat? When someone who is supposed to be on the same side as you, questions your leadership then it helps the other side. Now I know you may think its ok to question Obama's leadership but thats ok, because you're a republican.

"Bore people to death with vote counts?"

It is all about turn out. Were you concerned with Dems regaining the whitehouse you'd be more concerned with giving the winner (thats Obama) as much time as possible to rally the troops, along with the help of Hill and Bill because I know as good Dems they want a Dem in the whitehouse

"The ball is in Obama's court now"

Yep, and he's winning.

"it's time he started taking responsibility for this election and not putting all of the decision making onus on Clinton's shoulders."

Why? He can't decide for her to drop out. You'll notice that Obama and his campaign in a bit of class has specifically avoided asking her to drop out, though if he did you'd probably whine about that too.

"If he wants to be President, he's going to have to deal with a lot of people who are much meaner than Clinton."

There was a time I would have agreed with you. Then I would have agreed that while McCain's surrogates would have been meaner than Hillary, McCain himself, while stupid and dangerous wouldn't have been meaner. However after Hillary's latest attempt to play the southern strategy and flat out state her advantage is that blue collar white people won't vote for Obama, I find I can no longer agree that others won't be as mean as Hillary. Or at least as damaging to the Democratic Party. Which I assume is good news for you.

Your position makes it seem HRC has to face losing due to recent events. The point where anyone else would have dropped out was long ago. To give you an example of the company Hillary keeps, Ron Paul is still in the Republican primaries!

Anyway that being said, someone some posts back listed 2 reasons HRC is staying in. I agreed with one, disagreed with the other. Here are the THREE reasons I came up with why she is staying in the race

1. Holding out for someone to pay her campaign debt.

2. Holding out for the promise of VP or other cabinet position. (for personal reasons I don't see this being likely.

3. She wants to torpedo Obama in 08 so she can run against McCain in 2012.

We need to remember that IF Hillary is on the Dem team, (and based on the way she campaigned I don't necessarily believe that is true) her refusal to allow Obama, the victor now by every margin, dels, pop vote, and committed superdels, is becoming damaging to the DEMOCRATIC PARTY since she is not allowing the presumptive winner time to consolidate his win, along with her and Bill's support.

People like to talk about HRC supporters not voting for Obama in Nov. if that is the case, but that argument is dependent on how Hill and Bill behave. Right now they are behaving badly.

The longer HRC runs the more she behaves like bush & co.

1. Statements that are counter to known reality. These include her statement that she was just 'getting warmed up' after Ohio. How far into the race was this? This was followed up recently after her win in Indiana, with 50 of 56 races run that she was fighting her way to the whitehouse.

2. Rovian tactics. 3am phone calls anyone?

3. Pleading ignorance. Despite her claims of experience and being ready to go on day one, she says that she doesn't understand the primary/caucus system in Texas.

4. A combo one/two punch of using elitism as a smear along with attempting to appear downhome, folksy and despite the very well know reality, a good ol girl.

5. Employing the 'southern states' strategy by trying to subtly appeal to the racial divide.

6. Claiming that economists will have no roll in her economic policy as far as the gas tax holiday goes. This is pure bush. Who need QUALIFIED people and opinions when you know whats right?

7. More blatant lies to the public, attempting to justify not listening to economists about the gas tax, claims that the last

8 years of bush have been about elitist policy makers that have harmed the middle-class despite the very opposite being true that the bush admin is FAMOUS for eschewing the opinions and help of qualified people and experts in their fields.

9 Regarding the new Clinton-approved delegate count needed to win, fuzzy-math anyone?

10 Arrogance, pure pure arrogance.