Now, given the charges that have been leveled against Hillary regarding that unfortunate comment on Friday - that she throws the kitchen sink, the pots and the pans at BO and that her reference to RFK assassination was somehow code for something more sinister and hateful, I thought it'd be helpful to take a look at what she could be saying but isn't - and won't.  Contrary to popular belief folks, she's not tossing everything out there in some selfish attempt to undo our presumed nominee - she's actually been the very model of restraint, especially given what the Republicans are going to do come the general election.

This may explain why she hasn't given up her fight for our party's nomination, and won't.

Take a look...

What Clinton wishes she could say

Why, ask many Democrats and media commentators, won't Hillary Rodham Clinton see the long odds against her, put her own ambitions aside, and gracefully embrace Barack Obama as the inevitable Democratic nominee?

Here is why: She and Bill Clinton both devoutly believe that Obama's likely victory is a disaster-in-waiting. Naive Democrats just don't see it. And a timid, pro-Obama press corps, in their view, won't tell the story.

But Hillary Clinton won't tell it, either.

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Far from a no-holds-barred affair, the Democratic contest has been an exercise in self-censorship.

Rip off the duct tape and here is what they would say: Obama has serious problems with Jewish voters (goodbye Florida), working-class whites (goodbye Ohio) and Hispanics (goodbye, New Mexico).

Republicans will also ruthlessly exploit openings that Clinton -- in the genteel confines of an intraparty contest -- never could. Top targets: Obama's radioactive personal associations, his liberal ideology, his exotic life story, his coolly academic and elitist style.

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... one argument seems indisputably true: Obama is on the brink of the Democratic nomination without having had to confront head-on the evidence about his general election challenges.

That is why some friends describe Clinton as seeing herself on a mission to save Democrats from themselves. Her candidacy may be a long shot, but no one should expect she will end it unless or until every last door has been shut.

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...there is reason to question whether he would be able to perform at average levels with other main pillars of the traditional Democratic coalition: blue-collar whites, Jews and Hispanics. He has run decently among these groups in some places, but in general he's run well behind her.

Obama lost the Jewish vote by double-digits in Florida, New York and Maryland -- and that was before controversy over anti-Israel remarks of Wright.

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Does it seem odd that a woman with a polarizing reputation would be rolling up enormous margins among some of the country's most traditional voters? Three out of every four blue-collar whites in small towns and rural areas of Ohio voted for Clinton over Obama on March 4. The reality is, this is already an electorate with deep cultural divisions -- and that's in the Democratic Party.

Add to that her massive wins in WV and KY and her convincing win in PA.

The last two Democratic nominees, Al Gore and John F. Kerry, were both military veterans, and both had been familiar, highly successful figures in national politics for more than two decades by the time they ran.

Both men lost control of their public images to the right-wing freak show -- that network of operatives and commentators working mostly outside of the mainstream media -- and ultimately lost their elections as many voters came to see them as elitist, out-of-touch, phony, and even unpatriotic.

Obama is a much less familiar figure than Kerry or Gore, with a life story that is far more exotic, who is coming out of a political milieu in Chicago politics that is far more liberal.

The freak show has already signaled its early lines of attack on Obama. Polls show a significant percentage of Americans believe -- falsely -- that he is a Muslim. Voter interviews reveal widespread unease with minor and seemingly irrelevant questions like why he does not favor American flag pins on his lapel. Nor have we heard the last about Wright and his fulminations.

Here will be the real kitchen sink: every damaging comment or association from Obama's past, mixed together with innuendo and downright fiction, to portray him as an an exotic character of uncertain values and weak patriotism.

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Obama is indeed poised and self-confident. But the current uproar over his impromptu sociology lesson in San Francisco about "bitter" voters in Pennsylvania raise questions about his self-discipline, and his understanding of how easy it is for a politicians in modern politics to lose control of his or her public image.

You want to know why Hillary's not dropping out of this race for the White House?  Well folks if you've learned one thing about her this year I hope it's that she's no quitter.  She sees this as a fight for our party's chance at taking back the White House in November, and knows in her champion's heart that she's our only chance at getting there.

Ya know what?  She's not the only Democrat out here who understands that basic notion.  Over 17 million of us have voted for her and are still backing her fight to win in Denver.  

We're not giving up on her because she's not giving up on us.

Folks if you want a fighter who's battle tested, vetted, and ready to take on McCain with everything she's got look no further than Hillary Clinton.  If we're smart enough to send her into this battle, she'll leave McCain in the dust in this race for the White House.

Of that I have no doubt.