When she was given a possibly once in a lifetime opportunity to reform the US healthcare system, with her husband the president and the Democrat controlling both houses of congress, she failed badly. She rejected and disregarded suggestions from other Democrats and natural allies that didn't match hers, and was widely considred by those involved as arrogant and dismissive. Her second potential great moment came with the Iraq vote, and she chose to to do what she believed then would benefit a future presidential run, not what would benefit the nation. I don't know of any Obama supporter, including myself, who thinks he's perfect or that he hasn't made mistakes or doesn't have skeletons in his closet-all politicians and aspiring politicians do. However, we have no doubt that he's a far better decision maker than Hillary, is less self centered and arrogant, and that he actually cares about the nation more than he cares about his own ambitions.

The fact that after the last 8 years of Bush/Cheney, a Republican, any Republican, has a 50% chance of becoming the next president, means that it really doesn't matter who the Democratic nominee is. The ugly truth is that at least half of the US population is dumb and ignorant beyond belief. In any other western democracy, a political party with a similar record of hubris, corruption and criminality would be sent by the voters to the political wilderness for decades and its strength cut by a half or more. We just have to face the fact that's recognized world wide:we have a population that's comprised largely of backward, dumb, dead-enders who are clueless beyond hope.

Clinton regained her footing this past week primarily by running a classic, Republican-style campaign of negative, fear-based ads. She blanketed the airwaves with a detestable spot that, stripped to its core message, warned that if Obama were selected, your children could be murdered in their beds in the middle of the night. Somewhere up above (or more likely from down below), departed GOP mudmeister Lee Atwater is cracking a grin.

The spot worked so well - with exit polls showing that voters who made a last-minute decision went in droves for Clinton-- that she couldn't resist reprising the line during her Tuesday night victory speech delivered to a cheering throng in Columbus. "When that phone rings at 3 a.m. in the White House," she said. "There's no time for speeches or on on-the-job training."

Perfect. Clinton's done McCain the favor of cutting his best general election campaign spot for him. All he has to do is cut her answering the phone out of the last 5 seconds of the ad and splice his own mug in there instead. If Clinton succeeds in making what's politely called the "national security issue" the center of the campaign by arguing she's a safer choice than Obama, then why wouldn't McCain argue that he's even better than she? McCain's already begun that effort. If Hillary's nominated, he'll most likely succeed.

In her disgusting and detestable recent TV ads, meant to spread fear and mistrust of Obama(your children are going to be murdered by evil terroists in the middle of the night unless you elect me), Hillary was using a page out of the right wing vicious attacks handbook, authored by the late and unlamented Lee Attwater. Hillary grew up as a Republican and frankly, she stil is. She belives in the American Empire and that corporate America is part of the solution, not part of the problem. Since I never have and never will vote for a Republican, she will not get my vote if she ends up the nominee.

I never voted for a Republican in my life, local, county, state or national, nor would I ever consider it even if my life depended on it. I'd rather listen to 24 straight hours of Barry Manilow tapes(not that I would survive them). Since I would never consider voting for a Republican, the answer to your question is NO, I wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton if she's the nominee.

Hillary is engaging in a campiagn strategy that is similar to end old quarterback play. Knowing that an interception would lose the game. the QB throws to a spot that would guarntee only 2 circumstances, either the intended receiver catches the ball or the ball goes out of bounce, eliminated any possibility of an interception. By blasting Obama as unreliable and unfit to be president becaue he "lacks experience to be commander in chief", Hillary is making certain that either she's the nominee or if she isn't, the Democratic party is so divided and McCain has so much ammunition against Obama, using her own ads and speeches in the fall against Obama, that Obama would surely lose. Then she could run again in 2012, and this time she calculates that no serious Democrat would dare to oppose her in the primaries, being well aware how she destroyed Obama.

Anyone assuming that Hillary would drop out at any point is just dreaming. Once Obama gets enough pledged and super-delegates to clinch the nomination, Hillary will go to court and try to reverse it, using the Florida/Michigan issue and any other concocted issue she and her consultants can come up with. This is what the Clintons do, and what they do more than anything else, is never give up and fight, fight, fight until their last remaining opponent is too exausted to stand up. You can bet the house that her legal team is now working full time on gathering numerous pieces of information on caucuses screw ups, faulty ballots and voting machines and numerous other irregularities that "prevented" Hillary from winning, as part of their legal arguments in their attempt to reverse an Obama nomination. Hillary dropping out or accepting defeat? Only in your dreams.