If Hillary Clinton were a man, NO ONE would be demanding an exit from the race for the sake of party unity.

But for some reason, there are a lot of sexist jerks (and I include many women appeasers in that category) who think that because she is a woman, they should be able to tell her what to do.

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Why should the primary process not move forward? Last night, as I watched the Lehrer report, both their in-house pundits agreed there was absolutely no reason for Clinton to get out of the race, because she still has a shot a winning, and is virtually tied w/Obama. Yes, Obama is a few hundred thousand votes ahead in the popular vote, but that could change overnight. Yes, Obama is ahead in the delegate count, but depending upon how the upcoming primaries turn out, that too could change. Let the voters have their say--that is what is most positive about this long of a primary season.

Why so many anti-democracy folks around here? They seem to fear letting the process work itself out. A bunch of nervous ninny mongers.

Clinton may have a slim shot at winning, but far stranger things have happened in politics.

CarolC, Shelby Steele's premise on Obama is that he wouldn't be able to win in November, not that he wouldn't be able to win in the primaries. In fact, during his CSPAN Book Talk, it sounded as if he thought Obama was very popular with whites looking to Obama to redeem our racial guilt through electing him & thereby transcending the history of racism in the US. So he thought Obama had a good chance of winning Democrats, but not the general election voters, to his side.

As to his writings about race in general, if you dismiss him out of hand based upon a 4 minute You Tube video, you may not understand just how significant this guy's contribution has been in the past 20 years to the debate on race in America. He is a very, very smart guy, and an excellent writer. He is politically very conservative, but that doesn't scare me, or prevent me from listening to what the guy has to say about race. At least I'm honest enough to admit that he has as much right to comment thoughtfully on race as Cornel West does.

This thread's level of hysteria is quite amusing. The Obamamaniacs are so shrill, so strident, one wonders what exactly their stake is in this thing.