Hillary is snuffing out his candle now. He will be nothing when the convention is finished. Obama needs to make a bold move and go Indie with a centre coalition team.

A Clinton-Obama ticket may win November, but Obama would be a fool. He will have a better career in the Senate.

Obama will gain nothing by playing out an old Party game. He cannot win now, as she has the core Party constituencies and his "independent" supporters recognise the momentum is gone and they have no interest in tired Democratic politics.

Obama does not need the Democratic Party, which is a relic from the last century's social battles, which are irrelevant when the US is on the road to becoming a 21st century Brazil.