To most rational people, scoring 55% of votes in a race against one other person is a marginal victory at best.
To Hillary Clinton, it's a mandate, proof that "the people" support her.
So, not unlike Celine Dion's heart, she will go on, continuing her scorched-earth attacks against Barack Obama, determined to take down the entire Democratic party if she can't have her way.
Worse, she's suddenly sounding like Cheney or Rumsfeld: "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," she said Tuesday. Um, I'm sorry. Weren't you just railing against the war in Iraq a few weeks ago? Apparently, when she said she wanted U.S. troops out of Iraq, she didn't actually mean she wanted them to come home.
Not that Obama provides much contrast. Anyone with the money to play politics is out of touch by definition. Clinton, Obama and John McCain, jetting across the nation in transportation provided by deep-pocketed backers, have no clue what life is like for the average American. Soaring gas prices mean many people have to scale down their dreams just to be able to afford the drive to work. And they're the lucky ones, the ones who still have jobs, or houses to come home to. Decades of policies seemingly designed to hinder, not help, those less fortunate become even less adequate as more and more people bottom out.
Oh, but Hillary cares, and Barack and John. They're completely different, they claim. Just don't ask them for specifics.
