Obama contemplates victory

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama added Wisconsin and Hawaii to a primary season winning streak that now totals 10 and has put Hillary Rodham Clinton into a virtual must-win scenario in Democratic contests coming early next month in Texas and Ohio.

The former first lady now looks to a debate Thursday in Austin, Texas, to stall Obama's momentum and reinvigorate her campaign.

"The change we seek is still months and miles away," Obama told a boisterous crowd in Houston in a speech Tuesday night in which he also pledged to end the war in Iraq in his first year in office.

"I opposed this war in 2002. I will bring this war to an end in 2009. It is time to bring our troops home," he declared.

In a race growing increasingly negative, Obama cut deeply into Clinton's political bedrock in Wisconsin, splitting the support of white women almost evenly with her. According to polling place interviews, he also ran well among working class voters in the blue collar battleground that was prelude to primaries in the larger industrial states of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Clinton made no mention of her defeat, and showed no sign of surrender in an appearance in Youngstown, Ohio.

"Both Senator Obama and I would make history," the New York senator said. "But only one of us is ready on day one to be commander in chief, ready to manage our economy, and ready to defeat the Republicans. Only one of us has spent 35 years being a doer, a fighter and a champion for those who need a voice."

In a clear sign of their relative standing in the race, most cable television networks abruptly cut away from coverage of Clinton's rally when Obama began to speak in Texas.

First off all let me get this out of the way:

Hillary lost again.

Man, I never get tired of saying that!

Now a couple of points. One, Hillary keeps yammering on about her "35 years of experience" yet when you examine that "experience" all of it other than eight years serving in the Senate (where her only accomplishments have been the provision of decent constituent services and getting a few buildings renamed) has consisted of simply being married to a state's attorney general then governor and then being the First Lady.

Of course she also includes her advocacy and activism on behalf of certain trendy left-wing causes - especially The Children (TM) - but didn't Barack Obama begin his career in "public service" as an organizer for some angry left-liberal "community organization"?

If we judge Obama by the same standards which Mrs. Clinton wants us to judge her by isn't Obama's "experience" just as valid as hers? Obama was also a civil rights lawyer. That would seem better experience than Hillary's time in private practice at the Rose Law Firm which was just a cover for her real job as bribe collector for her corrupt governor husband. And before election to the US Senate in 2004 Obama had spend eight years in the Illinois state Senate which actually gives him more time in elected office than Mrs. Clinton has.

So what is it about Hillary's "experience" which makes her more qualified than Obama?

The second point I want to make is this. Obama is now seriously thinking that he is going to win. You can tell this by his statement on the Iraq war. Before he was talking about bringing our troops home within sixty days and not caring if there was chaos and genocide in the region after our departure.

This is the position of moonbat organizations like Code Pink, MoveOn.org and the other certifiably insane portions of the Democrat base. However it is not the position of the majority of the American public. No president is going to want to see that kind of disaster on his or her watch. Especially not a "first" president (first black or first woman).

Obama knows this and so he is lengthening the time frame which he is giving himself to work with and if he does manage to keep Hillary from stealing the nomination and comes out of the convention with the nomination sewed up he will further change his message and begin talking about "winning the war quickly" and "getting the troops home in a reasonable amount of time".

This doesn't mean that he would be a good Commander in Chief. In truth he would probably be a poor president in most ways but he is not barking mad. He, and his advisers, would realize that for him to be the president who ordered the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq which would have the predictable result of an incredibly bloody civil war followed by the incorporation of Iraq into a greater Iranian caliphate would be a political disaster for the Democrat party. The chaos in the region would drive American gasoline prices up to $6.00 per gallon (in the middle of the coming recession) and guarantee that the Democrat party would be a minority for the next 50 years.

Obama. Does. Know. This. This is why he is fudging on his timetable for withdrawal. As he comes closer and closer to locking down the nomination he will fudge more and more. Count on it. Before the first year of an Obama presidency is over Code Pink loons will be setting themselves on fire in Lafayette Park.