Honey, I'd like to say you're a winner, but............

Is this photograph possibly the ultimate give-away? Not an original question as it was asked by Michael Dobbs in the Washington Post from which I took the picture.

Look at the expression on Bill Clinton's face as his wife bravely takes the plaudits for narrowly scraping home in the Indiana primary. By now they knew she had been comprehensively beaten by Barack Obama in North Carolina. It's a face that seems to say 'you gave it your best shot but the game's up'.

And surely it is. Hillary Clinton has vowed to fight on, even though her defeat in North Carolina lost any momentum she had gained to that point. She cannot gain enough delegates from the primaries to come and surely the so-called 'super-delegates' cannot possibly support her candidacy over Obama's now.

She has fought a brave and gritty campaign, even if her populism has gone to ridiculous lengths over recent weeks out of , one senses, a feeling of desperation.

Is it not time for the 'barons' of the Democratic Party to step in and suggest that, to continue is going to harm the Party and that the time is now ripe for her to concede defeat and unite behind the man who clearly has the most support. If stubbornness and personal pride prevail for another month or more, are the Democrats not handing the Presidential Election to John McCain on a plate?