Two weeks ago Senator Kennedy had warned Bill Clinton to stop splintering the Democrat party along race lines. Bill did not listen.

Did it cost Hillary the endorsement of the Kennedy Clan?

As the primary continues to unfold I can’t help but think about Hillary’s life. People forget that it was Hillary, not Bill, who was the “rock star” when they first met. But she gave it all up to move to Arkansas and help an unknown lawyer run for governor in one of the most backwards states in the nation. Her friends were appalled by her decision. I can’t help but think of the song from Chorus Line “What We Do for Love”.

It wasn’t all terrible. Arkansas is in the boonies but being a governor’s wife isn’t a bad deal. Then there were the ensuing connections and how that helped her career (and checkbook). Bill might have strayed but Hillary knew he loved her and Chelsea, and he always came back. So she stayed and ended up in the White House. Again, not a bad trade off. Then he cheated there and this time publicly humiliated her and her child.

Super delegates constitute super hypocrisy.

But the Supreme Court has upheld any political parties right to choose their candidate however they want.

IT DOES NOT NEED TO EVEN RESEMBLE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPALS.

So the Republicans have one set of rules for the selection process and the Democrats have another. And the “Party” bosses are indeed the bosses. The processes are fraught with historical baggage including a lot of ways to try to keep the “voter” from making a mistake.

This link bares this in a way I am sure very few really understand, especially those who think their vote counts as much as any other. Bill Clinton has two votes, one counts for next to nothing like any individual vote in a pure democracy with a large population of voters. But the other, additional vote counts as 1 of 800 appointed voters of the just over 2000 required votes to get the Democratic Nomination. Together these 800 or so appointed voters are about 40% of the total required voters. The individual voters like you and I, altogether only count for about 60% of the votes.

Hillary Clinton is besting Barack Obama but by a surmountable margin. The Democrat contest is about to be brokered along the lines of Hillary as President and Obama as VP. If they lose Obama can run in 2012 as heir apparent, and if they win, and win again, he can run again in 2016 at the ripe old age of 55. Wednesday Hillary contributed $5 million to her campaign and cut off paying her staff. Some wonder where Hillary got $5 million unless it was another of her patent cattle future trades or includes a portion of the reported $20 million Dubai paid husband Bill for its efforts to take over U. S. ports.

The problem with the Republican Party is there are too many Republicans in it, a lifelong Democrat insists on repeatedly telling me. Ann Coulter, the willowy wild woman, is saying she will vote for Hillary if McCain is the GOP nominee, and Rush is in a similar rant. They and so-called Obamacans (Republicans threatening to vote for Barack Obama)

I speculated quite some time ago that the Democratic Party could almost lock up the White House if Hillary and Barack were on the ticket together. I believe that even more today with the same caveat that it must be done before too much political damage has been done to each by the other, making a union impossible.

The Obama bandwagon is picking up steam in many quarters and being referred to as the candidate of change by more Democrats every day. There are increasing and not so subtle references to taking the high road, for instance as opposed to Hillary’s pandering in Florida, evidently contrary to informal agreements amongst the candidates due to the delegate problem.

Hillary held center stage tonight Jan 24, 2008 indicating what Carl Bernstein called her in his book “A Lady in Charge.”

Tonight, she was very much “in charge” of the Republican debate. Most candidates were more prepared to campaign against her than other Republicans. They seem to be looking beyond a potential Obama win in South Carolina, to Hill & Bill in the Final Two contest in November.

This from Bill Clinton from a pulpit while applauding Martin Luther King for bringing this about.
But why is Bill getting directly in the face of Barack Obama in a way a Vice President in most administrations plays the heavy instead of the President, or in this case Hillary as the candidate.

Is it working or hurting the campaign is the tough question. Obama wants to keep his hands clean so maybe he should leave the responses to Bill for someone else in his campaign. After all in this race, Obama is a level above R. First Dude.

Rich Lowry calls Bill Clintons’ antics against Barack Obama as that of a man child.

Hillary overcame the casino workers endorsement of Obama in Nevada, to secure a real but not overwhelming win. Her voice was strained but she is definitely on a roll in and after the casino state.

After the Clinton and Obama first tier win in Nevada, the other tier of Edwards, Uncommitted and Kucinich picked up a few votes, but the Democratic race is narrowing to Clinton and Obama, with the odds in favor of Hillary and the Clinton machine.

Despite that, the recent political incorrectness over Martin Luther King may be a long shadow on the rivalry to play out next week in the Dem Primaries in South Carolina, then Florida and of course followed by Super Tuesday states.

Non candidates are observing carefully, looking for an opening. Chief amongst them is our very own Chief Hypocrite who is one of the less well know candidates feeling the pull of the disenchanted. The Chief, however, is most worried when he notices that Bill Clinton continues to show enthusiastic support for the “best candidate he (Bill) has ever known”. Even the Chief has limitations.

On this date, no one joined us in the Michigan Primary Discussions.