Okay, I'm working on my deep breathing. Obama really does have a commanding delegate lead. He is probably going to win the nomination regardless of how low his Democratic opponent decides to sink in the dying throes of her campaign.
But while a week ago I was optimistic that Obama could sweep the nation, Reagan-style, and win over a whole new generation of voters to the suddenly-big-Democratic-tent, Clinton's backstabbing, Republican-lovin' tactics threaten to hamper Obama's performance in the general election. Thanks to outrageous comments like the "commander-in-chief threshold" comment (by the way, WTF is "the commander in chief threshold"? seems in her effort to skewer Obama for being eloquent she's decided to use language as poorly as humanly possible), if she keeps this up for month after painful month, he may not be able to win as commandingly -- and I guess if she does enough damage, he could even lose.
So at this point I'm just sickened at the fact that that woman represents me in Washington, D.C., at all. And while my dollars continue to flow to Obama (memo to the Party: stop hitting me up for Party donations until you get the crazy lady to behave like a Democrat), my sights are now focused on the next hurdle: having to continue to live with her as my senator. Yuck.
Given her impressive success with getting donors to cough up funds, and her impressive ability to bring home the bacon, I don't have high hopes that we'll ever be rid of her unless she leaves voluntarily when the Senate seat fails automatically to cause her to become president, which was obviously the purpose of the Party installing her there in the first place and has been her obvious goal the whole time she has been there. I am not as familiar with local politics as I would like to be, but any chance she could lose the Democratic nod next time around because she is a traitor to Democratic (and democratic) values (like, say, Lieberman)? Is there anyone on the horizon who is known to be interested in unseating her? How do I get on their mailing list?!?