Hillary 2008: Queen Of The Damned

When the dust settled on March 5th, the day after "Super Tuesday Part 2," the corporate press declared that Texas and Ohio went to Hillary Clinton. It was hailed as yet another glorious Clinton comeback from the brink of destruction.

It turns out that Hilary Clinton lost Texas.

She lost because in Texas voters are legally allowed to vote twice, once in the primary and again later in the evening at a caucus. Based on the existing caucus results, CNN declared that Barack Obama won the majority of delegates on March 11th. It was the Clintons themselves who declared that if they lost either state it would be over for them.

The caucus results did not get mentioned during media's grand fanfare of Hillary Clinton's phoenix like return from the political graveyard of history.

It turns out that the corporate media lied.

There is a even bigger lie the corporate media is now peddling every day on cable television, that the race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is rather close and suspenseful.

But the reality is- based on Obama's edge in the delegate count- that as Politico's Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen recently pointed out, Senator Clinton "has only one scenario for victory. An African-American opponent and his backers would be told that, even though he won the contest with voters, the prize is going to someone else."

The super-delegates will not overturn the party's primary season just because the Clintons want them too. It would be political hari-kari, something politicians are usually not accustomed to. If they do, they will look worse then the Supreme Court did after illegally overturning the 2000 election. If they do, there will be a riot in Denver that will be so righteous, so justified and massive that it will make the 1968 convention riot look like a Saturday morning cartoon. If they do, the Democratic party as we know it will be no more.

So in other words, the only plausible reason that the Clintons would stay in the race now is to damage Obama to the point that he loses in 2008 to McCain and then try and stage a victory in 2012.

That scenario played out this week, when the Clinton trash talk express rolled into North Carolina and the "subdued" Bill Clinton went on stage and questioned Barack Obama's patriotism.

Instead of "other stuff," Clinton said, "it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest

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