Enough of Blonde Ambition

Is it not time for Hilary to pack it in?

I think so. As of now, the Democrats are just tearing themselves up.

Running for President requires a more than ordinary ego. I have a pretty standard ambition - even if less than what I had in more halcyon days. (Hey, I am forty-eight and pretty sure time has run out for me some things.) But is Hilary's ambition for herself damn all other considerations or not?

Listening to the talking heads on MSNBC and reading the following, I am thinking Senator Clinton has decided that she alone deserves to be our presidential nominee. That kind of thinking is not good - not any different than Bush and Cheney. (I am not even going to say anything about former President Clinton whose recent public displays sadden me in the same way that seeing Muhammad Ali does nowadays.)

Ben Smith at Politico.com wrote Can Clinton win popular vote, superdelegates?:

"Clinton’s top supporters, including her husband, have suggested in recent days that amassing more votes than Sen. Barack Obama, while it has no formal meaning, could offer a key rationale for laying claim to the nomination. The theory: Winning the popular vote might give party leaders known as superdelegates a reason to take the nomination away from Obama, who is virtually sure to earn more pledged delegates."

And what an image from Maureen Dowd in Haunting Obama’s Dreams:

It’s impossible to imagine The Terminator, as a former aide calls her, giving up. Unless every circuit is out, she’ll regenerate enough to claw her way out of the grave, crawl through the Rezko Memorial Lawn and up Obama’s wall, hurl her torso into the house and brutally haunt his dreams.

Add Frank Rich to my crowd - the crowd who thinks McCain is the only person profiting from Senator Clinton's campaign.

Whatever Mrs. Clinton’s or Mr. Obama’s inconsistencies about how to wind down the war, they are both models of coherence next to Mr. McCain. He keeps saying the surge is a “success,” but he can’t explain why that success keeps us trapped in Iraq indefinitely. He never says precisely what constitutes that “victory” he keeps seeing around the corner. His repeated declaration that he will only bring home the troops “with honor” is a Vietnam acid flashback recycled as a non sequitur. Our troops have already piled up more than enough honor in their five years of service under horrific circumstances. Meanwhile, as Al Qaeda proliferates in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a survey by Foreign Policy magazine of 3,400 active and retired American officers finds that 88 percent believe that the Iraq war has “stretched the U.S. military dangerously thin.”

But as violence flares up again in Iraq and the American economy skids, the issues consuming the Democrats are Mr. Wright and Geraldine Ferraro, race and gender, unsanctioned primaries and unaccountable superdelegates. Unless Mr. Obama and Mrs. Clinton find a way to come together for the good of their country as well as their party, no speech by either of them may prevent Mr. McCain from making his second unlikely resurrection in a single political year.

The MSNBC pundits keep talking about the superdelegates being convinced by Clinton's momentum and winning the presidency in the Fall. I think the superdelegates will be looking at coattails. Obama presents the possibility of coattails while Senator Clinton does not.