Hillary Clinton has refused to leave the Democratic Primary race. Behind in delegates, both pledged and super-, behind in fundraising, and behind in polls nationwide (with the exception of the citizens of Pennsylvania it seems) it's all but settled that Barack Obama will become the Nominee. The insistence on continuing this travesty is damaging on more levels than one might realize.
In refusing to step aside, Hillary Clinton is committing an unforgivable offense: Holding the Democratic Party, and given the metrics of this election, the nation, ransom. She's issuing the ultimatum that either the gates open up and she gets the nod and business continues as usual with lobbyists, or she delivers a hamstring-snapper to the party in the form of dragging this circus out to the convention. By doing that, she allows McCain to lob rocks over the fence with essentially no fear of having them being returned, or even deflected. He could say Barack is a cannibal and Hillary is a vampire, and nobody would hear any kind of rebuff because every single lens is focused on the next dagger-thrust from the Clinton crowd. John McCain is taking campaign trips around the nation running for president while we're still bickering over hanging chads blue dresses inhaling/not inhaling who gets the chance to run against the bastards. We haven't even gotten to the starting blocks, kids. The other guy is halfway 'round the track. The people have spoken, Barack is ahead in every metric except maybe age and albedo (yes, albedo - look it up) ans when Hillary says she wants to let every state vote, remember she wrote so many of our states off simply because we weren't sufficiently delegate-rich. Call it frugality, call it strategry. I call it hypocrisy - you don't win the presidency by visiting 8 stats and calling it a game. You're running for all states, commonwealths, and territories of America, not "Texas, Ohio, California, and New York." It isn't right, it isn't fair, and it isn't working. Sometimes the newcomer wins the game, Mrs. Clinton. You congratulate them and heighten their glory by accepting their victory, fair and square. Not by holding the stadium hostage until everyone says "fine, you win, just let us go home."
Let it go, let us win the presidency. Return to being a fine senator, and come back next time around. It'll be waiting.