Show this woman the door...

...and shove her through it.  This post isn't going to be about me or China or anything related to travel.  It's going to be one self-indulging political rant about the US Democratic primary race. Because I just woke up to this spectacular gem:

When asked why she's staying in the race, Clinton's response was, "My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right?  We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it."

Then she apologized saying she didn't mean her comments to be offensive.  Really?  For reals?  I mean, you invoke the assassination of a well respected and rallying political figure as a reason for staying in the race, and even if I give her the benefit of the doubt that she didn't mean that she's holding out hope that Obama gets assassinated, that's still one of the most cynical reasons I can imagine for staying in the race.  Never mind the fact that at this point *if* something horrible were to happen, she'd be the clear and obvious choice for the party's nominee *even if* she had bowed out weeks and weeks ago. And if she'd done so a little more graciously, and that awful scenario had played out, she might have had a chance to win the general. 

It's not until very recently that I've taken this opinion of her.  I started out in this race pro-Obama but willing to vote for whomever the nominee turned out to be.  I've thought that the unprecedented voter turnout in states across the country and the fact that now people realize that Puerto Rico, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands have a say in the primary races have been very positive for political activity in this country, and I've quite enjoyed the fact that every state is having a say for once rather than just the ones that go first.  But that was before she got desperate.  I'm tired of her and her supporters shouting "Sexism!", and I'm tired of women vilifying other women for not voting for the woman candidate.  I saw a beautiful blog posting from a young woman recently who said it really well - modern feminism means that I can vote for whomever I want to, because I do know that we've reached a point in American politics where gender is not going to keep a woman from holding office.  Her progress in the race to this point has evidenced that.  But I don't want her in office just because she's a woman, because she's not the woman I want to reflect on when 20, 30, 40 years from now I'm thinking back to the first female president.  

The remaining needed delegate count stands at Obama: 56 and Clinton: 246.  I have a feeling we're going to see a significant shift after the news lull over the holiday weekend, hopefully involving some previously pledged Clinton supers swinging to Obama to make a statement and shrink his numbers further, and I hope *that's* what makes it clear to Clinton that her time is up.