Hillary decided it was better to give up the nomination rather than to tear the party apart and lose anyway.
Agreed, & yet what Pfleger did went even beyond the race card. Blacks had generally held the Clinton’s in fairly high regard, or at least above average regard. When Pfleger made it look like Hillary was trying to assert white privilege to keep the uppity black man down, he didn’t just send her into negative territory; he engendered outright hatred for her. It was amazing & grotesque to see.
You’re right about the Clinton response, of course. It was a ‘live to fight another day’ tack—in fact, the only viable tack they had at that point.
It will be interesting to see what direction Hillary takes w the book she’s working on. She’ll have to tread very carefully if she wants to criticize Obama—IF she has future political aspirations. If she’s done, she might just let it rip. Time will tell.