Clinton Urged to Quit Race

Hillary Clinton's story about coming under sniper fire while visiting Bosnia in 1996 as first lady might have been a case of misspeaking, as she insists, but it isn't an exaggeration that she's metaphorically coming under sniping of the worse sort as the calls for her to withdraw from the presidential campaign intensify. Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, an Obama supporter, is the latest to weigh in, arguing that Clinton has little chance of winning the nomination and that she should get out of the race to allow the party to unite behind Obama. "There is", said Leahy, "not a good reason for drawing this thing out." Leahy is correct but I suspect that in Clinton's mind, this race has more to do with her personal ambition than the welfare of the Democratic party.