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Hillary Clinton is being asked – no, told – by party elders, pundits and people who say they care about their country, to quit the quest of a lifetime: to stop raining on Barack Obama’s presidential parade, the Democratic Party and even democracy itself.

By yesterday, as the superdelegate tally reflected either a tie or Obama in the lead, Senator Clinton’s last “I can do this” weapon was steadily slipping away from her.

Yet there she was, glad-handing at a Mother’s Day “celebration” in West Virginia with her daughter Chelsea at her side, perhaps offering one clue to her emotional stamina: As Gail Collins wrote in The New York Times, the embattled senator is privately saying “she does not intend to go home and tell Chelsea that she’s a quitter.”

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