As our Presidential candidates head for the finish line in November, it behooves the voter to do more than just listen to speeches or watch the ever-changing polls. It is time to think.
  There’s a growing call for Clinton to quit the race because it is statistically well nigh impossible for her to win the nomination without very sharp and unacceptable tactics. But think:
  Why shouldn’t she continue to the end? After all, it can’t be disputed that lightning might strike, Obama might stumble, or votes in the 6 remaining state primaries might break 90-10 in her favor. It could happen.
  I think she has every right to continue in the campaign, so long as she runs an honorable race. Dishonorable might make me think again.
  The upside will be that Obama gets a lot more experience surviving nastiness while all the remaining states get to vote; the downside is inevitably that every one of her attacks on Obama is recorded by the Republicans for playback in the fall – but the Clintons should be aware that Obama is not the only one who could be hurt.
  Voices in the punditocracy opine loudly and often that the continuing Democratic struggle is giving McCain an advantage that might become insurmountable, totally ignoring three truths:
  First, the one who is not getting attacked always rises in the polls.
  Second, McCain can’t win because he is a terrible campaigner, whose entire basis for running is his military past.
  And finally, the word “recession” has entered the public discourse.
  John McCain? Bush policies to be continued? In the middle of a recession? I don’t think so.
  Which brings me to Barack Obama.
  There came a point last month when I thought I would explode; it followed a couple of days of reports that the Clinton campaign was arguing, mostly under the radar at that time, that Barack Obama “can’t win.”
  I didn’t see it coming, I have to admit, though I should have. It just hit me all of a sudden:  The Clintons have come to the point where they are running a racist campaign.
  All of this talk that voters in states with more electoral votes, or states that voted solidly Democratic time after time in the past, or states with more voters, were somehow likely to refuse to vote for anyone but Hillary Clinton, is just so much malarkey. And so this gambit is all the Clintons have left.
  Now, I don’t believe for a minute that either Clinton is a racist, but it sure looks like they think the American voter is, as they insist: “Obama can’t win. You know Obama can’t win.”
  That’s code, folks. You’re supposed to understand from this that a black man cannot be elected president of the United States.
  Well, let me tell you the upside in nominating Barack Obama.
  All over America, not-so-blue-state governors and members of Congress are supporting Obama in droves, in many cases because they know that if Hillary Clinton is at the head of the ticket her negatives and the resulting higher Republican turnout will hurt them “down ballot,” whereas an Obama-led ticket will bring in huge numbers of new and enthusiastic voters and independents, which will inevitably help them.
  The way I see it, this could bring about so many Congressional victories that even if McCain ended up winning, the Democrats would have such majorities in Congress that he wouldn't be able to do a doggone thing they don't like.
  The downside? If the Clintons are proven right and in the midst of a recession, with homes foreclosing all around us, joblessness on the rise and a bloody war without end in sight, the victor is a Republican candidate who offers more of the same, racism will have prevailed.
  If that happens, America will be the worse for it, and God help us.
  I believe in America, though, and my faith is strong that we are all we say we are and all that we wish for the rest of the world.
  So I’m rolling the dice. America, call it!