Hillary Clinton knows she's not going to win Iowa tomorrow, at least going by comments from former state governor Tom Vilsack, who has endorsed Ms. Clinton's candidacy. Vilsack told a reporter yesterday:
She has done what she needed to do here. When she started the process she was way behind -- it's now by all standards a competitive race.
She absolutely had to be competitive, and she's accomplished that. Obviously, everybody's interested in winning, and I think we're going to do well. It's tight. There's no question about that.
Clinton is likely to finish third in the state caucuses behind Barack Obama and John Edwards. Every big-name candidate who finishes third in one of the early states always says it was a win because they were competitive, but it's bullshit for Hillary to say third is a win for her. It would be a win for Chris Dodd or Joe Biden or Dennis Kucinich The Martian Fairy King - for Hillary, third place is a disappointment and she knows it.
And Hillary had better not lose New Hampshire to Obama too, cause then she will be in serious trouble. I frankly already think that she's done, and that all the momentum is behind Obama. Of course something could always happen - like someone on Hillary's team digging up video of a coked-up Obama molesting a white woman. And don't think they aren't looking all over for one too. Hillary is desperate to be president, so she and Bill can have a do-over of their first co-administration, which didn't go as well as they'd planned. There's no dirty trick these people won't stoop to. And folks who think a Hillary presidency would mean a more prudent approach to foreign policy are fooling themselves. Bitch would bomb Iran just as fast as W. would - maybe faster. The sad truth is, there's nobody running who can extricate us from the quicksand we've gotten ourselves into - politicians created the shit, but no politician can magically make it go away. Our only hope is to hunker down and pray that, when the shit really hits the fan, we can somehow ride it out. Then, if America is ever born anew, hopefully we'll be smart enough not to depend on religio-fascist regimes for our energy supply. And maybe we'll know better than to elect smirking charlatans like George W. and Dick Cheney.
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