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Hillary:
You fought your ass off and made yourself a hugely viable and powerful political presence in
the eight years since the Clintons last reigned. It's nothing short of tremendous. Now exercise
the most common of common sense and bow gracefully from the blinding footlights of
the Democratic race. Understand that you're beaten and don't prolong a process that
will only pull your party apart. If you stay in a race where it is mathematically impossible for
you to prevail, it casts you as little more than a shrewish, win-at-all-costs political opportunist
and NOT as a team player who puts her party's collective welfare ahead of her own political
ambition.
There's nothing wrong with wanting it that bad. There IS something wrong with wanting
it worse than anything else.
When you take in the full measure of what electing someone like Obama into office could
help repair and reshape the world over, then even you would be hard pressed not to see the
almost invincible promise that brings. The people are telling your party what they want.
Do the graceful, gracious thing and simply step aside. You are now a force to be reckoned
with and who knows what 2012 will bring. Any undo damage to your reputation would only
come as a result of you not knowing when to call it a day...and that day has dawned.
JC
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