604

Hillary Clinton wants to be president more than anything.

And that's exactly the problem. She cares less about the suffering in Iraq, the plundering of our health care system by for-profit insurers, the outsourcing of jobs overseas, and all the other problems afflicting millions of Americans, than she does about scratching her presidential itch.

Long story short — The Obliterator will say and do absolutely anything to put her ass back in the White House.

I'm not as sanguine as others about the mathematics of the primaries being all but impossible for Clinton to overcome. Mere numbers mean nothing when that's all that stands between the Clintons and their ambition.

Clinton's latest maneuver is to challenge Obama to a freewheeling, Lincoln/Douglas-style debate. There's no reason for Obama to risk the presidency on a 22nd debate, and he has already declined the challenge. But the Clinton tag-team is going to take Obama to the mat on this one, insinuating over and again ad nauseum that this girlie-man can't possibly keep us safe in a dangerous world.

The nomination is going to be decided by savvy party bigwigs — the superdelegates. They won't be fooled by the Clintons' cheap shots, but they know that many Americans will. And those superdelegates who have been searching for a way to rationalize a vote for Clinton may have just found it.

According to Pennsylvania exit polling, 18% of Democrats said race was a factor in their vote. In the primary itself, Obama won only 38% of white votes.

Since there are about 10 times more whites than blacks in America, this is very bad news for Obama in November — something the superdelegates are well aware of, but aren't likely to cite as a reason for supporting Clinton. But the wimp factor is something Americans can grasp without shame.

At 9:10 am on Sunday, April 27, 2008, despite the laws of mere mathematical probabilities, 604 calls the nomination for The Obliterator.