Let's be honest--all this was inevitable.

It WAS, for the most part, an extremely close race in all respects. That's a testament to the strength of both candidates and their supporters.

Of course, the racial and gender issues came into play and clouded some people's perceptions--but remember, the Republicans avoid these issues completely by consistently nominating old white men for the job. I'm glad we had the opportunity to vote for a change this year.

But in the end, unfair as everything in life, someone had to win and someone had to lose.

this morning, looking over a Time Magazine from Jan '08...at that time, Hillary had the glow of inevitability around her.

it was her decision to stick it out to the bitter end, fighting to the death with her slash and burn mentality

at this point she is just embarrassing herself.

the one upside is that she will face extreme political pressure to support obama bigtime, since she has repeatedly said she would do just that

Jesse Jackson Jr was criticized for a comment back in December? I think. It was along the lines of, "Barack's gotta be careful in how he goes after Hillary or he'll look like OJ." More recently, a thoughtful new poster here said she didn't envy Clinton for having to figure out how to go negative against the first viable black candidate, either.

because in the days following Indiana and North Carolina, out of the blue someone compared the Obama campaign to the OJ trial. Something about African Americans always supporting their own while calling dissenting whites racist or some such...anyway, it came out of nowhere, and it prompted a furious all-caps response from me, something which I almost never do because I almost never yell in real life.

You better believe I honestly wanted to reach through my computer and personally punch the poster in the jaw. I can't even remember who it was--the sub-thread was soon locked--but it made me sick to see a popular black candidate compared to an infamous black alleged murder for no other reason than the color of their skin. On a website for Democrats, no less.

It's a gutter mentality, and every TRUE American knows it.

It was considered a lock that she was the nominee.

What was inevitable was that when she lost two months ago and refused to exit gracefully that this would blow up into crazy irrational lunacy. That was foreseen.

The rest of it?

No way.

How could anyone predict that she would be so incompetent?

The Republicans are still stuck in the oldwhitemaleplutocracy mindset. We ought not to wish for such a clear path to a nomination, and be glad, at least, that we can have the apparent dilemma that we do.

Their nominee will be another faceless crook. Ours will make history.

Her campaign has been dead since it lost those 11 straight contests, except nobody in the party or media wanted to call the time of death.