Trainwreck

I feel sorry for Hillary Clinton. There, I said it. I feel better. Whatever you may think of her, man she is catching it real real hard these days.

She has waited so long and put up with so much. She stuck with her serial philanderer husband. She endured 8 years of getting the stinkeye from Tim Groseclose. She played the quintessential junior senator, keeping her mouth largely shut and her nose to the wheel. She watched Gore and Kerry blunderingly lose to the Shrub. Now was her time. She had all the elites on her side, all the money, Bill seemed on board and under control. She was the "presumptive nominee" with the proverbial "air of inevitability".

Now as we approach the first actual primary, she is on her last legs. She came in 3rd in the Caucii of the Hawkeye and trails by 10 points in New Hampshire with 1 day to go.

Where did it go? And how did it go? Barak Obama, to me is, so far, more of a metaphor than a real person. His message is totally what he is not and the claim that what he is not will allow him to change / improve the world. Amazing. But it's working.

Maybe we can talk more about Senator Obama soon, but for now, I feel Hill's pain. It's gotta be frustrating as hell for her, and there is little she can do. Attacks now sound shrill and desperate. Sour grapes and all. But she seems to be standing in front of a speeding freight train.

Am I wrong? does she have a chance? Will Edward's people go over to her and not Obama? If that were to happen will it be too late? Is it really curtains for the Clinton Dynasty?