I've been seeing a lot of talk lately about how Hillary has already lost, she just doesn't know it yet. It's not over and unless people start taking action and making waves Obama supporters are in for a rude awakening.

 

The problem is that Hillary doesn't need to catch up to Obama in delegates to get to the White House. In fact, she's got plans nested in plans, and they're all quite good. In fact, if nothing changes then one of them is bound to work.

 

Let's begin with the fact that the Clinton campaign is strong-arming superdelegates. Many assume incorrectly that the superdelegates will vote whichever way the popular vote goes but while that may be true for many it's simply not the case in general. They can vote for whomever they please and Hillary's two pronged attack on the superdelegates has some winning potential.

 

First off, she's threatening and cajoling some of them behind closed doors, trying to make political alliances through giving or withholding political favors. Secondly, while she knows she can't pull ahead of Obama in delegates what she can do is edge closer to him and then claim: 1) it's so close that it's really a coin toss and 2) she's got the better chance of beating McCain in November so the remaining superdelegates should tilt the scales in her favor.

 

But even if that doesn't work she's already laid the groundwork for a Vice-Presidency. The longer she pushes this issue the deeper the divide will be within the Democratic party and ultimately even if she doesn't win the nomination they may decide Obama won't have a chance to win without Hillary on the ticket as Vice President. They might try to force her on him, whether he likes it or not.

 

Of course, many of Obama's supporters know how strongly he feels about getting rid of the old guard and cleaning up the way Washington is run. Adding Clinton to the ticket is against much of what he stands for, but it may be his only way to win. If he chooses winning over his ideals then Hillary wins, but if he chooses ideals over winning then Hillary also wins, because she'll run again in 2012 — and Baraq will be in a much weaker position if he already was the nominee and failed to win the election — especially this one.

 

Many people don't think it will come to that. They don't think this will fracture the Democratic party to that extent, but that's because they really don't get Hillary supporters. If they understood, they would be quite a bit more concerned.

 

The latest poll figures show 19% of Obama supporters would actually vote McCain if Hillary was the nominee. No surprise, there's a lot to despise about that woman. She lied about everything from her involvement in getting NAFTA passed to her foreign policy experience in Bosnia.

 

Yet, despite the fact that the worst thing anyone has said about Senator Obama was that he didn't have enough experience, or that he didn't "exercise good judgement" for not switching Churches every time a Reverend said something he disagreed with — despite the fact that there is literally nothing to hate about the man himself and that his policies are 95% in alignment with Hillary's the fact is that 28% of Hillary supporters said they would vote for McCain if Obama was the nominee.

 

Why? Well you have to understand Hillary supporters. They idolize her as a modern woman, someone who's had it rough and battled through. Bill Richardson wasn't just blowing smoke when he said he was uncomfortable with many of the people surrounding the Clinton campaign having a "feeling of entitlement" to the Presidency. Many of these people literally despise Barack Obama simply for "stealing" Hillary's moment. This was her election, this is supposed to be her Presidency, and how dare he get in her way.

 

So the divide is there, it's real and it's only going to get worse as time goes on.

 

The worst part is that Hillary manages to maintain this spell on people despite how transparent she is upon any close inspection. When Obama distributed flyers telling voters the actual truth about Hillary's involvement with NAFTA, she publicly said, "Shame on you, Barack Obama" and claimed he misrepresented her, which wasn't true at all but since that seemed to be the end of the story most people got left with the idea that Obama was in the wrong, and poor Hillary.

 

When Obama released his tax returns and urged Senator Clinton to do the same she said she was working on it (has her copy machine been broken for the last three months? She can use mine…) but questioned why Obama hadn't released several other documents. Of course, the people paying close attention were thinking, "Huh? You didn't even release anything yet!" but the rest of the country was thinking, "Yeah… why didn't he release… whatever that is? Is he hiding something?"

 

Hillary is undeniably a master of political smoke and mirrors. With the Bosnian account she said she "misspoke" — and somehow, despite the fact that she repeated this story at least three different stops on her campaign trail and despite the fact that she defended it upon questioning ("Now, that is what happened.") and continued to stand by it when Sinbad said that wasn't what happened — despite the fact that she told the same lie at least five times and only recanted when confronted with absolute proof, she simply claims she "misspoke" and the media (and the American people) seem to have given her a pass.

 

She even turned it around on us, saying she's "only human" — as if it's our fault for setting our expectations too high. Heaven forbid we should ask for a candidate to be truthful about her past record and about her qualifications to be President of the United States. More recently she blamed the "misstatements" on sleep deprivation from the campaign trail. The irony seems to have been lost on the majority of Americans who were wondering which candidate we want answering the White House phone at 3am.

 

Ultimately, Hillary has given us more than enough to turn public opinion against her. People just need a chance to see behind the smoke and mirrors and realize they're being had. What we need to do is educate anyone and everyone, far and wide, by showing them the video clips and driving home the fact that this woman thinks we're all idiots.

 

If you have a blog, write about this for your readers. Call into radio shows, call Fox News and CNN and ask them why they aren't playing footage of the Presidential candidate lying about her qualifications to be President. Send those video clips to everyone you know. In order for Obama to be free to win this election on his own terms, Hillary needs to drop out of the race or have her public opinion drop so low that she's unelectable.

 

Everything we need to derail her campaign is right in front of us, but if we don't get people to look a little deeper and see the real Hillary then she's going to find a way into the White House one way or another. And in my humble opinion, the only way that woman ever deserves to see the inside of the White House again is with a tour group.

What is going on with this nation's media? If someone has a Reverend that occasionally says outrageous things, disagreeing with them isn't enough — we expect a candidate to move to a different Church?  Yet, when a candidate deliberately lies about their qualifications for the job of President of the United States we're supposed to give them a pass because they're "only human"? 

 

And let's be clear: Hillary lied deliberately. She used clear language to tell a tall-tale about being "under sniper fire", having "no greeting ceremony" and running "with our heads down" to get to the vehicles. A reporter asked her if that was accurate and she told the same story all over again and adding, "Now that is what happened". She then went on to tell that story to crowds in at least two other stops on her campaign trail, winning sympathy and admiration for her bravery and experience. 

 

Yet the story is absolutely false. She was on the trip with singer Cheryl Crow and comedian Sinbad, when Sinbad was asked about Hillary's account he said he didn't remember it happening that way and that the most scared he was the entire trip was wondering where he was going to eat next. When reporters asked Hillary about this apparent discrepency Hillary yet again stuck by her story and dismissed Sinbad's account because "he's a comedian". 

 

But then stock footage was dug up from the event itself. Now we could see with our own eyes what actually happened, and none of Hillary's story seemed to be true. There was no rush to get out of the plane. There was no running to the cars. There was a greeting ceremony — with a bunch of young kids on the tarmac, no less. No danger to be seen — and there was Hillary through it all, walking calmly, smiling and waving.

So a story that she told on multiple occasions, a story that she had adamantly defended under questioning not once but twice, was completely false. Hillary's explanation? She misspoke. She made a misstatement. Her most audacious response: "I'm only human, which may come as a surprise to some of you," as if it's our impossibly high standards that are the problem, not her lying.

 

Endeavoring to be fair, it's possible she didn't lie deliberately. Newsweek reported that Hillary's story had grown with the telling, and hypothesizes that she had come to believe they were true. If that's the case then is that any better? Frankly I would rather have a President who lies through their teeth but is competent than a President who doesn't have a firm grip on reality.

 

But Wolf Blitzer echoed Hillary's cry on CNN yesterday, "Well, she's only human…" and that seemed to be a theme throughout the media. I don't know whether they're all die-hard Hillary supporters or if they're trying to prolong this battle for entertainment/ratings purposes but from where I'm sitting one of those two explanations must be correct because I can't think of another reason to give this woman a pass for telling, repeating and defending lies about her Presidential qualifications while they continue to slice away at Obama for not burning an old man at the stake for having some outrageous opinions.

 

PS: Obama's March 18th speech on race was lauded by Newspapers across the country as one of the greatest speeches by a President or Presidential Candidate of all time. They compared it to speeches by Kennedy and Roosevelt. After watching it I understand why. It is the first time anyone has ever spoken to a national audience in this country so clearly and honestly about race in a way that all sides can really connect with. The televised media largely ignored the subject matter, latched onto the part where Obama denounced Rev. Wright's words but didn't disown the man himself, and played Rev. Wright tapes for the next four days. To them I say this:

… and that's all I have to say about that. 

This story seems to be all over the web but Hillary's Campaign Ending Lie — or at least a blatant lie one would generally suspect capable of dealing such a death blow — has yet to be picked up by any of the major media outlets.

 

It seems rather cut and dry. She's been touting her foreign policy experience as First Lady for month. She said that as First Lady it was her job to go places to dangerous for the President himself to go. She said landed in a C-17 at Tuzla airport in Bosnia after having taken evasive maneuvers on approach, having no formal greeting, hearing sniper fire and being told to run with her head down to the car.

 

But there's video of that visit and she's clearly being greeted in a warm fashion by a medium sized crowd. There is no hint of any urgency, danger, or sniper fire. No one is running anywhere with their head down.

 

Some suggest that perhaps this is an honest mistake, maybe she was referring to a different visit, or a different airport — the problem is that according to folks who have reviewed her recently released schedule, she only ever landed by airplane (as opposed to helicopter) in Bosnia once ever, and it was at Tuzla airport.

 

So if her official record confirms she was only at Tuzla airport once then the video of her landing at Tuzla airport has to be the same occasion she describes landing at Tuzla airport, but the video clearly shows that many of the details she describes are patently false.

 

There seems to be no way this can be an honest mistake or anything like it, so I'm a little suspicious why the press is still playing Reverend Wright tapes nearly a week after Barack Obama's clear explanation and historic speech on race, and yet they seem to completely ignore what appears to be a "gaffe" of extraordinary proportions on the part of Hillary Clinton.

 

I think we need to make as much noise about this as we can.