I agree no one, especially not Obama, has ever let gender be a factor. In my opinion, Obama and his campaign have consistently treated her better than they have treated him. Did the story make it to your side of the pond that when he called her Tuesday night he got voice mail? Unbelievable.

She’s about 20 minutes from her speech and I expect she’ll finally be gracious — she and her husband need some rehabilitation, in the eyes of the party and many members of the public — so I think she’ll play along. Whether she will fire up her supporters to back him and whether they will (the latter’s the wild card) is anyone’s guess.

I do think her time to take a back seat has come. The latest Clift column is again fine reading, I think. It’s here:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/140314

Whatever happens in November, I’m delighted that both Obama and Clinton have made so many people say, “I never thought in my lifetime….” Maybe, as a nation, we’re finally growing up.

I’ve found that Donna Darko gives a good insight into the mindset of the Clinton camp, through its miserable last hours of self-immolation.

There was even talk there earlier this week of contesting the Michigan decision, but I think that finally following the St Paul rally, even the most pig-headed of politicians would eventually and belatedly have realised that the game was up.

For the life of me though, I just can’t work out what the logic here. The whole HRC campaign since North Carolina seems to have been based on a form of denial so transparent that it seems only she couldn’t see through it.

It’s depressing and destructive that bad losers like Ms Darko are trying to present the positive message of hope which underpins the Obama campaign as some kind of sexist and misogynist victory.

It’s been a memorable and historic campaign, and to my knowledge no one, and certainly not Mr Obama, has ever presented Hillary as a weaker candidate for being a woman.

Let’s hope, for America’s sake, that you can all move on from here. I agree that there can be no space in the White House for Clinton as Vice-President (either of them). That result might well have been achieved back in February, but it’s gone for ever now.

A new future calls. It’s time for change.

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