Ezra Klein took a look at that article and has some skepticism. Link's at my name.

Hillary is finished.

The only interesting question now is at what point she decides to cut her losses and concede with whatever dignity she has left.

My guess is two weeks from now.

I didn't say Hillary was the only hope for Democrats. I said(de facto) she was the only hope for the Democrats to win in 2008 and to keep (make gains) in Congress.

Without her, the only question is will Obama lose 40 states like Mondale or 49 like Dukakis. And he will. He lost all the big electorate states any Dem needs ,lost the SW (where McCain will perform strongly) and shows no sign of picking up a single state Gore or Kerry lost. How does a Dem win a general without NJ or California. You tell me. I don't see the electoral math. Chicanos don't like him - they DO like McCain, they don't share the lefties compulsion to "punish" Hillary for her preauth vote nor the homosexuals need to hate strong women. That's why Hillary did strongly with Chicanos and with all people concerned about the economy. For affluent lefties who think they are unaffeted they had the luxury to vote "all Iraq". (For now). I'm wondering how they're going to feel when the GOP takes back Congress and McCain starts returning favors to the right.

Hillary did well with blue collar workers, the elderly and Chicanos. Ironically it was Hillary not Obama who could lure the Reagan Dems back and in fact HAD done just that in New York.

Obama, oh, this is gonna be bad. REmember, up to now all he's had to do is fend off Mrs. Clinton who couldn't hit him too hard for fear of alienating the nut left (moveon.org, salon.com, etc). The right, the more they hit the better they'll do in an election. And each time they have, such as Bob Novak's article, or his loose-mouthed wifes comments on patriotism, they have looked like deer in the headlights. It's almost too funny it's so sad. they have NO IDEA how to handle it.

I hate her so much I can't wait to see Oprah looking like the loser she is for steering racist black lemmings over a cliff. Guess she'll be fine too though right. Struggling blacks have every right to harpoon her and feed her to the hungry after Obama's defeat. Remember blacks were solidly in Hillary's camp until Oprah started hoofing on stage for Obama and "Hope".

Well, you had your choice of a TESTED candidate lefties. There's a reason Rove and his pals wanted Obama - they knew they could seriously affect his favorable ratings where they couldn't do jack to Hillary's anymore.

For me , I'm just taking care of myself now and getting ready to weather what's coming with the GOP sweep after my (now former) party does what it does best: snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Every fucking time too.

It's one thing to feel sorry for people who are going to be hur, but when they keep making the same mistakes every four to eight years it just becomes infuriating.

Just what sort of new dimension are you going to enter when Obama wins. Who are you? What are you? Take off the sheet please...

The big point I got from that post was not the 1-1 comparison of legislative records, but the fact that Hillary seems to struggle to get consensus and support behind her bigger ideas. Obama pointed this out last night when he talked about the failure she was met with on UHC. And I think she highlghted it by driving home the notion that any idea that is not hers is a failure.

Her party might not nominate her.

There are some of us who have decided to support Obama because we think he has a better chance of beating McCain in November than Hillary Clinton does. Obama is clearly an intelligent individual and, if elected president, would probably govern very capably. It's not like we have to choose between the dumb jock quarterback and the valedictorian. It's more like we have a choice between the valedictorian and the president of the National Honor Society. Why are people so antagonistic and bent on making Obama supporters out to be mindless dolts?

The debates don't matter anymore. Most people have made up their minds. If Obama wins the nomination, I'm voting for him in November. If Clinton wins, I'm voting for McCain.

Nuff said.

Hillary's craft at emoting another swelling of sacararine sympathy won't make me nostalgic for another Clinton dynasty as a new decade dawns. Out with the old and in with the new, it is time for this country to find and fix upon, a fresh new view. Houston is hot for Obama. Enough political dissection, bring on the election!

& her "pearls" of wisdom:

"I've noticed the endless repetition of the fallacy that Hillary Clinton "authorised" the invasion of Iraq and the deliberate avoidance of any criticism of Colin Powell who supplied misinformation to the UN five years ago this month, in an effort to cajole other countries to support the American adventure. There are Americans who are so insular that other people scarcely exist in their consciousness."

So Americans are "insular" because they are attempting to hold Clinton accountable for a vote with DID authorized invasion of Iraq (and the hence taking the lives of many Iraqi men, women, & children, not to mention US soldiers).

Hmmmm ... anyone see the problem with the logic there?

Hillary Clinton is an intellectual leeche. She stole remarks from John Edwards and her husband last night. She stole one of John Edwards answers in a debate nearly word for word previously. She has tried to absorb other candidates campaign themes when her's has flagged. youtube her embarrassing "Yes we will" moment. When she cried in NH it all was suddenely "This is personal for me" conviniently mere days after John Edwards used "This is personal for me" as his thematic device in the debate. She was the candidate of "experience" until Obama gained traction with "Cahnge" then she was all about change.

Please don't get into the old "depending what the meaning of 'is' is. She's intellectually dishonest.