Prematurely like how? Didn't Hillary have over 100 Super Delegates basically the day she announced her campaign?

The Clinton campaign and their MSM insiders will be at full tilt this week. It's a calculated scare campaign. A non-existent coverup, a conspiracy, a historical reference to RFK, how unfair and un-democratic this whole process has been to Hillary, her so-called popular vote lead, articles about Obama's "white" problem (they're pushing this harder than ever now), Axelrod's lobbyist problem, only Hillary can win the GE, and who knows what else Republicans and Wolfson will come up with.

It's four days before the FL and MI meeting and even if all delegates are seated and the entire pop.vote is handed to Hillary, they'll continue.

I've seen no evidence that the Clintons will concede in eight days.

I can't even imagine how they can move 180 degrees from what they're saying now to acknowledging Obama has won the nomination fair and square--and then campaign their hearts out for him.

First it was the "vast right wing conspiracy" then after Senator Clinton made nice with Richard Mellon Scaife and he endorsed her, she embraced this financier and purveyor of this vast conspiracy against her. Bill Clinton condemned FOX News for spreading lies and doing the bidding of the Republicans but once they went after Obama, FOX News became the Clinton campaign's favorite "fair and balanced" news outlet. Both Clintons attacked Karl Rove as a lying SOB, but then, there's Hillary Clinton quoting as a credible opinion, the same Karl Rove as a reason she should stay in the race.

The Clintons will say anything and do anything to win. They will embrace the worst, most insidious, most anti-Democratic entity, as long as it suits their short-term ambitions.

And to think I voted for Bill Clinton twice, and campaigned for him, and donated to his election campaigns and to his charity. Never again.

He really does just lie far too easily. She's winning the general election, and he's not? On what freakin' planet?

They cannot stand the notion that this upstart denied her the coronation.

In Bill's defense, it's reasonable to think that Hillary could do better in November than Obama would, and there's certainly facts her supporters can point to that suggest this is true.

It's also reasonable to believe that Obama would do better instead. How you feel about their relative chances may affect which candidate you prefer. Or, more likely, your candidate preference affects how you feel about their relative chances to win.

We tend to believe our own perspective is commonly shared, and if we think candidate X is better, then we'll tend to assume most other people do, too. Or at least most people who've taken the same time and care to study that we have would.

So Bill Clinton's comments are hardly surprising, nor are they particularly divisive. If he didn't believe Hillary would be a stronger candidate, he'd be encouraging her to end her campaign.

I happen to believe that Hillary's sex would be just as big a handicap in the general election as Obama's race, if not bigger, and while I can cite some polling to back that up, no doubt people looking to draw the opposite conclusion can find data to support their opinion as well. The bottom line is that we simply don't know who would be the stronger candidate in November, and odds are we'll reflexively think our preferred candidate would be stronger.

In a year where the political environment strongly favors Democrats, either candidate is quite likely to win in November if they run a good race. So I'd say electability should take a backseat to which one we believe would make a better president. Again, reasonable people will disagree over that as well.

If you are firmly convinced that Obama simply cannot win in November, an opinion the Clintons likely hold, not only because of his race, but also because they see Obama as being viewed as too "liberal" for the general election, their continued fighting makes sense, and not simply as something driven by their own personal ambition. As significant forces behind the DLC, it's not surprising that they might understandably worry that the country is too conservative to elect Obama.

That doesn't mean that their opinion is correct now, however, nor does the party as a whole have to agree with them. Bill Clinton overestimates the extent to which the public as a whole wants Hillary to be president. The Democratic electorate is pretty much split down the middle on that question. People on both sides have valid reasons to support their opinions. But once the contest is over, we should all come together to support the nominee, whoever she, or he, may be.

Let us have NO DOUBTS about this. He means that anytime short of the CONVENTION is premature.

According to Sigmund Freud, projection is a psychological defense mechanism whereby one "projects" one's own undesirable thoughts, motivations, desires, and feelings onto someone else. It is a common process that every person uses to some degree.

Psychological projection