Hillary Clinton's fading presidential campaign is on life support. Money is drying up, she pushed her chief strategist, Mark Penn, overboard, and has been caught not just lying about her trip to Bosnia but now her plan to assault Obama's committed delegates.
That's what Hillary's campaign has come down to: turning the screws of whatever power and influence she and Bubba have left, to get committed delegates and superdelegates to switch from Obama to her. This high risk strategy threatens to tear the Democratic Party from stem to stearn, much to the delight of John McCain and the GOP.
She is losing ground rapidly in the crucial Pennsylvania primary, which doesn't occur until April 22. By then, at the present pace, Obama will win going away. Just as he won Missouri by targeting just a few black-dominated counties (he carried just 7 of Missouri's 50-some counties), in the Indiana primary that follows Pennsie, he is targeting just the few black-dominated counties like Gary, which still may be enough to knock off Hillary there too.
This would drive the final nail into her coffin, regardless of how hard the Clintons pull out all stops on Obama's delegates.
As it appears increasingly likely that Obama will be the nominee, the question comes down to stopping the bleeding enough to get some semblence of unity in the Democratic Party. Taking Hillary on the ticket may be the only way, but he should ask the ghosts of Vince Foster and Ron Brown how wise that would be.
Even worse, white males are likely to carry the big stick in this election. Without one their own on the ticket, Obama may be sunk. With one on the ticket, someone like antiseptic Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, for instance, he may have Hillary and her core group of middle-aged, uppercrust white women sitting on their hands.
Talk about a Hobson's choice!
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