Clearly, this Washington outsider is going to change politics as we know it!

Great. The losers who gave all that bad advice to Hillary will now be giving bad advice to Obama. As far as I can tell it's already started: capitulate on FISA! Let everyone know what a "tough on crime" death penalty nut you are!

This has been a pyrrhic victory. Obama won the primaries so that he could start acting like every other uninspiring Democratic presidential candidate in the last 30 years. Who knows? Maybe his political sensibilities are being drowned out by the din of D.C.'s echo chamber.

there's no reason to believe any of her former aides would've given him advice to leap to the right as he has done.

On the other hand, he was always a center right pol, if you look at his real record, not his books or speeches.

And Clinton, according to analyses other than the semi-right-wing National Journal, is to the left of Obama in her Senatorial votes.

So Obama has done this all on his own, and did it, interestingly, right after Clinton suspended her campaign. Had he done it before, he’d have lost the nomination to her (as he’d have done if he hadn’t prevented the perfectly valid MI and FL primary revotes).

In this, he listened to his real supporters, the corporate folks, large donors and bundled large donors, not those who idolized and voted for him.

And hey, his economic team is mostly the Bill Clinton team – except for those from the U. of Chicago school who are well to the right of Bill Clinton – so why not take Hillary’s campaign team? He will be taking from Clinton’s team in many areas; watch the news on possible cabinet appoinments, for instance.

It serves another purpose, too: that of removing her campaign team to prevent her from staging an upset at the convention. He is trying to nix the regular, long-traditional roll call vote for the primary loser. This is supported by his obedient DNC, so it probably will not happen.

Why would they want to prevent this? Not just to humiliate her. It would prevent it becoming clear nationally that her support is at least as strong as his. And with his tacking to the right, some delegates might even change their minds and she could actually take the nomination. This has to be stopped!

Now, people think he is so much stronger than she, thanks to the media and his supporters. But he barely eked out a questionable “victory,” aided by the superdelegates and the party leaders. She had at least the popular vote as he. And he knows this. He has to eliminate her as a political force in order to succeed.

I think if he is elected, he will appoint Clinton to the Supreme Court, which will look like an honor but will keep her from being able to use her huge political strength against him in the Senate and beyond – even to take the 2012 election from him.