In the weeks to come, we face an increasingly destructive and bitter campaign battle that portends the grim future of an impotent Democratic Party that loses to McCain in November.
There is only one person who can stop this grim future--Senator Clinton.
If current reports are valid that HRC seeks to gain the nomination by super delegates and coaxing pledged delegates to abandon BO, this will be a total disaster.
Neither HRC or BO should engage in such tactics.
In fact, using the super delegates to strip a candidate who enters a convention with more delegates than his or her opponent--even under ordinary circumstances--could shatter a political party.
But this fear is even more pronounced in the current state of the party, whereby we have an AA and a woman vying for the nomination.
If BO enters the convention with the lead in delegates--and is subsequently stripped either by super delegates or the crossing over of pledged delegates after coaxing or arm twisting by HRC, it would rank as perhaps the most unfair action by the Democratic Party since utilization of the poll tax, the prohibition of voting for women and other minorities.
The same holds true if HRC enters the convention with the lead in the number of delegates.
It appears that by the time the convention occurs, neither BO nor HRC will have the 2000+ number of delegates to win the nomination outright. After this evening, it appears that HRC would have to win the big states by huge margins to overtake BO's lead in the number of delegates.
If this is true, there is only one noble action she could take.
She should spare the party of a convention fight and simply concede the nomination ad vow to do everything possible to elect BO as the 44th President of the United States.
Only HRC can make this decision.
Only HRC call off Mark Penn and any and all advisers who would argue for a strategy that would rip this party apart.
In sum--only Hillary Clinton can unite the Democratic Party.