Hillary was supposed to be "the anointed one". As the single most well-known person running for President, and a "woman who actually has a shot", she was considered a shoe-in. It didn't matter what her platform was; nothing could stop her.

Nothing except a newbie Senator from Illinois.

She came prepared with 35 years of experience in how to manipulate the system. She was a beloved First Lady, a Champion of the people, and a well-respected leader. She was the one who was "ready from Day One".

She was never ready for this.

Mike Lupica wrote in today's New York Daily News: "Barack Obama has been better organized, raised more money, won more states, gained more delegates and had a better strategy than Clinton from the start."

He came from behind, taking Iowa by storm with nothing but big dreams, big ideas, and hope hope that after seven years under a political dictatorship whose polarizing core philosophy can be summed up as either you're with me, or you're a terrorist', America might at last be ready to end the partisan feud that has lobotomized us for several decades now.

He spoke of ending the rivalry that has become more important to the political process than the purpose for which it was designed: to govern this nation. In a rally on April 18th, he made the point crystal clear by stating that our so-called leaders have devolved into bickering children, competing in an arena where score is kept based on how many blows one can land on one's opponent, rather than measured by how many problems get solved.

Where Hillary is a master of the political game, ready for anything, she never dreamed that she'd be up against an opponent who won't engage her. He plays by his own rules, engaging the people instead, spreading his message of Change. In the game of politics, Hillary is unbeatable. But Barack Obama isn't playing politics; his kind of Change is a change in the nature of the game; his message is that it's well past time to put an end to it.

Barack bet right. We are sick of it. We're sick of the fighting, we're sick of the pointless name-calling, we're sick of the rhetoric, we're sick of the extremism on both sides, and we're sick of watching our country be torn apart while our "leaders" are to too busy maneuvering for position to bother with the actual leading.

And now it's come down to the wire. People still know Hillary better, and people do trust her. Her attacks have cost Obama dearly. To hear her tell it, it is he who

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