Remember way back in the year 2007, when every talking head across the dial, magazine and news paper proclaimed Hilary Clinton as the Democratic nominee for the next President of the United States? Remember that? Remember how she walked around and laughed like a strutting peacock, so sure that Joe Biden, Dennis Kucinich, John Edwards, Barack Obama and the rest didn't stand a chance in hell at beating out the Clinton legend for her media promised free pass all the way to the White House? Remember that?
Oh how times have changed. With all of the intelligent know-it-all prognostication from those who know everything, two very important details were left out of the equation. The desire for something new and John McCain.
While everyone conceded the fact that Hilary Clinton has the highest "unfavorable" rating of any politician out there (justified or not) they were still ready to crown her President without a single vote being cast. And then a funny thing happened on the way to the polls. Barack Obama caught fire. The most unlikely of the unlikely won Iowa, handily. While that was taking place John McCain rose from the dead. A candidate that the Republican party may not completely love, but one the party could warm up to simply to defeat Hilary.
Now the Clinton campaign is forced to release statements declaring that the campaign is "Strong".
---MSNBC) Hillary Rodham Clinton denied Monday that her campaign is in trouble after losing to Barack Obama in four weekend voting contests and replacing her campaign manager.
"I'm still ahead in the popular vote and in delegates," Clinton said.
Speaking to reporters after touring a General Motors plant outside Baltimore, Clinton said she feels very good about the state of the race, even though she is not expected to win any victories between now and March 4, when voters in Texas and Ohio cast ballots.----
Clinton has placed the blame for her weekend loss squarely on the shoulders of "a caucus system that is undemocratic and caters to mostly party activist." The very activist you need to win an election. This while she touts her "Super Delegate" count. The all too democratic voting system. She also attributes her Louisiana loss to "a very strong and very proud African-American electorate, which I totally respect and understand,". Nevermind the fact that Maine, Washington State and NEBRASKA went overwhelmingly to Obama.
She then went on to tell the good people of Alaska and North Dakota that their votes for Obama really don't matter because "you don't need those states to win the general election." A statement that doesn't "sound" "undemocratic" at all.
Foot in mouth disease seems to be running ramped through the Clinton campaign these days. Maybe it's because by this point, she was supposed to be the President in waiting.
As it is so often stated, almost anyone is going to be better than the current administration. But it seems to me that this time, voters aren't allowing the media to tell them who that someone will be, on either side of the aisle. Sure, they have been successful in shutting out Ron Paul and Dennis Kuncinich, but I suspect those days are coming to an end as well.
As for the "Strong" Clinton campaign, the big MO means everything. Unlike the days before Super Tuesday, the day that was to end the democratic race, this time there is time for that momentum to take hold. This time those absentee voters have had time to see another "strong" choice before they send in their ballots. It's possible that Texas and Ohio could have a big surprise waiting for her when she gets there, now that she has decided that all the other votes really don't matter.
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