For years, I couldn't understand the
visceral hatred of Hillary by so many people. She struck me as an
extremely bright woman who could show a rare, extremely high level of determination to work for what she thought was important. Sure, there were troubling
things in her past like her cattle
futures trades which smelled of favoritism, but that seemed
to die down. And, of course, there was her secrecy and my way or
the highway approach to the health
care task force, but perhaps she learned from those
mistakes. All politicians have skeletons in their closets. It's
part of being a driven person.

She often talked about the “scars” she has from those days.

In the early debates, I thought she did very well. I thought she showed she would make a good president. She was impressive.

But after SuperTuesday, and especially after the Potomac Primaries, it became clear to me that she had no plan to win the nomination except by denigrating those who dared oppose her (states that "don't matter", caucuses "don't matter", the pledged delegate count “doesn't matter” - only the super delegates matter, delegates can change their vote at any time, etc., etc.). Her campaign's tone-deafness on race, her stupid promotion of McCain, her self-proclaimed vast experience and competence yet her inability to even pay her campaign's bills!, and her latest (though several-times repeated) comments about "assassination" make it clear that she' not "ready from day one". She's not ready at all.

Her tone-deafness on discussing issues (and non-issues), her conviction that she's right and her critics are always wrong, her inability to learn from mistakes, her alliances with her reactionary long-time critics like Scaife and Murdock, and on and on, make me see that (while she would likely appoint some good people and think about issues, if given the chance) she would be a continuation of Bushism - 50%+1 is all that matters.

Finally, her tone-deafness on the problems created by her sticking in as a candidate until the end of the primaries. It's not the fact that she's sticking in that's the issue for me, it's the way she's been campaigning. I won't go through the details of the stupid and almost evil way she's been campaigning recently – Keith Olbermann covered them very well last night. In short, it's her say-anything style of campaigning that's the problem, not the calendar.  Pointing to June being important in the past says nothing about why she's running a scorched Earth  campaign against Obama now.

Her “scars” apparently have taught her nothing.

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart. - HRC.

Ha. Ha. Not.

While her reactionary critics are often unfair, often evil, and often illogical in their criticism of her, IMO, she is pathological. She's learned nothing from her past, her scars, or even past campaigns. Statements like “she's tired” don't excuse any of these things. She's has no reasonable rationale for continuing to campaign for the presidential nomination.

If she does not “suspend” her campaign by the end of the week of June 3, IMO, she will have completely destroyed her remaining goodwill among many in the Democratic party and the electorate. Her hubris and tone-deafness will finally give her reactionary critics the victory they've wanted since 1992.