They should begin a reconciliation process. Both should begin to focus on McCain.

Yup

Are you going all Madonna/Prince on us - leaving out your last name? :)

Every day brings yet another voice to the choir.

Give it up Hilldog, time to quit.

As much as the Clinton supporters hate hearing this, she cannot win. She has lost. It is encouraging to see several party leaders begin to call her on it.

Can either candidate get the required number of delegates? The winning 50% mark was determined by a total which included both Florida and Michigan. Unless Senator Clinton releases her delegates I'm not sure Senator Obama can get enough delegates.

"I think that her criticism is hurting him more than anything John McCain has said. I think that's unfortunate."

If Barry can't the women, how's he gonna handle War Hero?

The only thing is, Clinton doesn't care that her criticism is hurting Obama's chances. I think she knows exactly what she's doing, and it's this childish brand of "if I can't win, I'm going to make sure you don't win either" narcissism that makes it so obvious. Of course she could be doing far more constructive things with her time, but after aspiring to the presidency, surely she sees the senate as "beneath" her now. She's staying in either because she thinks she'll be anointed thru her superdelegate buddies, or because she wants to erode Obama's chances.

Look, she really wants to be president BAD. Thats obvious. Her goal I believe is to damage Obama enough so that he loses to McCain, then she can run against McCain in 2012.

My reasoning for believing this is that now most serious analysts including those in Clinton's campaign acknowledge that she cannot win unless Obama drops the ball somehow and implodes. That being the case, IF she can only win if Obama screws up... then why not run a clean, sane, unoffensive, high-road campaign? Because she WANTS to damage Obama and would rather have McCain win and run against him in 2012, rather than have Obama win and have to presumably wait until 2016.

But I don't see the Clintons giving up. If she wants to make a scene at the convention, she'll make a scene at the convention. My fear is that the more party leaders begin to speak out, the more vicious the Clintons will get.

I think Democratic leaders are under the very wrong assumption that the Clintons have any concern at all for the Party. This is ALL about the Clintons. Again, today Bill Clinton is out there singing the praises of John McCain. My guess is that once Hillary Clinton does exit the race the Gruesome Twosome will go on a non-stop media blitz right up to the election spreading thier rancor. We aint seen nothin yet, I'm afraid.

No, the 2025 (or 2024.5, thanks to Gov. Spitzer) was formulated without MI or FL counted. I’ve seen the figure quoted as to what each would need with MI and FL, and it’s something like 2149.

You've seen all those interweb ads begging the musical question, "Should Hillary Quit?"

See the ad enough times and it becomes truth. It is that easy to program morons.

What? You thought Leahy was some sharp tool in the woodshed?

Hillary could be the 2012 democratic nominee if Obama is the sitting President.........Been a lot of love and hope and change promised.

And we must make his Royal Highness Obama Maximum Leader Director of the Realm and General Purpose Sun God for Life.

So the Obama/Wright duo have offended gays, jews, and now italians. Who's next, hispanics or women?

How long will Democrats allow this to go on, until Obama/Wright alienate the entire country?

Obama is the one who needs to quit but it's obvious he only cares about himself and not what is good for the party.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080327/ts_nm/usa_politics_obama_pastor_dc_2

Picture Obama with a 35 percent approval rating in 2012, troops still in Iraq, etc.

Senior party leaders are finally showing some genuine leadership.

Senator Clinton now faces the choice of bowing out of the contest with grace, dignity, and far-sighted class or continuing to pursue the scorched earth tactics she has favored for the past month. She is a tremendously talented, energetic and idealistic leader who has much to contribute to the Democratic party and to the nation. Whether she gets the chance to make that contribution will depend squarely on the manner in which she leaves this race.

What she must strive for now is a paraphrase of Shakespeare's line: Nothing so became her campaign as the leaving of it.

picture billary with a 35% approval rating right now, having enabled Bushit to send the troops there to start with. That's not a hypothetical. It's the truth. Deal with it.

If she's ultimately responsible for fucking the Democrats in the fall she'll never get another shot at the nomination in 2012. In fact, I would guess there would be a major push to unseat her in the Senate when her term is up.

To borrow programmer's metaphors, destroying Obama's chances in November is not a bug in Hillary's code, it is a feature. In fact, at this point, it is the sole feature of the program that is still running.

I liken it Iraq. We all saw the video of Cheney explaining in 1991 why it would be have caused chaos to depose Sadaam. So it is not like they didn't know that things were not going to be roses and democracy. Therefore, we have to assume that there was another reason: revenge against Sadaam no matter what the cost, a desire to show HW that W had a bigger dick, a desire to see gasoline double in price while giving billions to cronies. take your pick. but it wasn't a lack of understanding what was going to happen.

Likewise, Hillary knows she's not going to win, but she is sure as hell going to destroy Obama's chances before she crawls back under her rock.

A. I don't believe her plan actually includes being held responsible. She'll just campaign against Obama as nasty as she feels she can get away with and hope he loses.

B. The American electorate is not know for its long memories.