Your quick psychoanalysis of HRC is spot on in many respects. However, I seem to find it interesting that you seem to feel her malady(s) are without disastrous consequences. In fact, there is such a double standard with regard to Hillary. She's granted leeway no male would ever be allowed, and for good reason.

Let's start with her meltdown at Saturday's debate to prove both points. (Yes, prove that Hillary has psychologically unbalanced traits. And I leave to a clinical diagnosis proper to determine what they manifest in sum total.) Her outburst was simply an expression of cluelessness regarding her true standing as a Democrat. She not only bristled at Edwards' hint that she was status quo, and, therefore, using the Democratic Party as a guise to be a divisive force... But Hillary, through her tone, and its prolonged nature, clearly showed her to be clinging to a view of her relationship toward others that didn't fit any facts.

News Flash: Americans don't have slots granted without merit. Hillary, however, clearly believes she is the only one due the Presidency...of all things. Such a perception is worlds away from getting people to agree through a fair political process that she should be elected.

That this escaped news coverage says much. Clearly Hillary became unraveled not on Monday with tears. But with anger in public. My prescription is a simple one...No Nuclear Codes for HRC.

Those emotions fed into Monday, in fact. The questioner asked, "How do you manage to put on makeup in the morning? For a woman isn't it much harder." Later Hillary would detail to CNN's John Roberts that the woman's question showing concern for her, as opposed to Hillary having to work out someone else's problem became tears. The facts of the matter are that she was triggered into an event that she constantly struggles with. Her persona is a complicated affair she can't successfully triangulate, obviously.

She revealed depression, and, then, tears.

Hillary is an unsatisfied and angry human being.

All these defenders better become aware of that: and do so sooner, rather than later. Calling the debate from NH confirmation of her being mistreated is the wrong conclusion to draw. Would you want the task of casting votes against Hillary in a way that would have ended a career she never "fulfilled?"

Eventually, she will be seen as unfit for the Presidency.

Paglia believes she needs to campaign to survive and will "spew" attacks. That's a pretty benign statement about motivations that keep alive a form of extremely toxic discourse.

Satisfied ultimately perhaps by doing a little bit more than just wagging the dog.

Your "reporting" is abominable. Clearly, in New Hampshire Hillary had a mental breakdown. She was unraveled at the debate on Saturday to the point of prolonged public anger. That spilled over into Monday and became another episode of psychological weakness.

However, you refuse to admit to even the possibility of her poor performance. Quoting statistics is fools gold at best...and its simply trashy to do so repeatedly.

Read this and believe it...The voters of NH wanted rid of Clinton. The last thing they were going to do was have it known that they ruined the "career" of the biggest wannabe of the 21st century!

If you're going to blog please show some insight.

Right now you simply seem no more than a teenager, at best.

ALSO, IN FACT, FOR BEYOND THE FIFTY MILLIONTH TIME, PLEASE STOP PIMPING SALON READERS OUT TO MSNBC AND THAT WRECK OF A "POLITICAL EXPERT" CHRIS MATTHEWS.

IF YOU CAN'T CONTROL YOURSELF ENOUGH TO DO SO, AT LEAST HAVE THE DECENCY TO STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT MAINSTREAM MEDIA.

OR MAYBE YOU DON'T KNOW, JOAN...MSNBC IS MAINSTREAM MEDIA!!!

I read your article and want to applaud its points of view. Obviously, where the substance is with regard to African-Americans from Democrats is what matters most here. Lamentably that is the case, still after all these years. Nonetheless, it is the case that Obama has a fine line to tread, and that can't be ignored. He's not only a legitimate contender for the nomination. His candidacy takes place at such a tense time.

Though I don't believe he's got the experience that will allow him the mettle to pass through its various trials, in many respects its quite courageous.

Obama will be President one day, for sure.

For now, however, there's the issue of this society's numerous maladjustments that preclude talk about race and only race, just because we have an African-American contending for leadership. Consequently, at every turn, the Obama campaign is left deciding which battles to fight. In the end you may be correct in implying he falls short in the department of adequate concern. But judgment always requires mitigation of circumstance so in this case assessment is ambiguous.

Plus, let the Clintons show us how race is NOT to be dealt with. After all, you're a professor, so you know failure is often a road to enlightenment, right?