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| 4-9 Editorial: Memo to Hillary: quit |
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It's time for Hillary Clinton to step aside. She can't win the Democratic nomination, at least not without stealing it.
House Democrats are even beginning to crack under the Clinton foundation. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling all the Super Delegates to go with the popular vote, and not stay loyal to one candidate over the other.
The Clintons, however, are pulling out all their political juice to try and steal the nomination from Barack Obama.
Clinton will probably win the Pennsylvania primary - she has a 12-point lead according to a Quinnipiac University poll - but after she loses North Carolina it will be impossible for her to catch Obama. And she will lose North Carolina - Obama has a double-digit lead according to realclearpolics.com. She knows it, her husband knows it and Obama knows it.
But to do that, to step aside, would be very un-Clintonlike. The Democratic national chair, Howard Dean, has vowed not to let this fight go to the floor of the national convention in August.
More and more Democrats are beginning to call for Clinton to step aside and with each passing day, the reality of Obama getting the national nod becomes more likely.
However, knowing the Clintons like we all do, they will pull out every dirty trick at their disposal. Lines that were once black and white will become different shades of gray, or the line will just cease to exist.
Has anyone recently asked questions regarding the Travelgate scandal, the Vince Foster mystery, and Sandy Berger's shredding of sensitive files, many of which had not been duplicated?
More recently, John Glasgow, who was the chief financial officer of CDI Contractors, the company that built the Clinton Library, has gone missing after accounting errors under his watch came to light.
The Clintons will fight and scratch to try and steal the nomination away from Obama.
However, Hillary could vastly increase her popularity if she bowed out gracefully, licked her wounds and readied herself for another fight on another day. She needs to get off this "Rocky" comparison, especially since she was the favorite heading into this race, not the underdog like she now claims to be.
America is finally beginning to see the Clintons for who they are, and they don't like what they're seeing. Hillary Clinton needs to take her own campaign advice and "move on."
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