Bobby Kennedy's daughter (former lieutenant governor of the State of Maryland) and Hillary Clinton supporter believes it is over for Hillary....
Giving the annual Nitze Lecture at the St Mary's College of Maryland on Feb 20th titled "Notes from the Front: The Presidential Campaign—Democracy’s Alternative to War," she had the following observations....
A reader emails Political Wire with these statements
"Townsend said she expects Sen. Barack Obama to win the Democratic presidential nomination and that Clinton is finished. She believed that the Wisconsin results demonstrated that Clinton's coalition (voters over the age of 50 and those earning less than $50,000) had fallen apart.
Asked to identify the reasons for the failure of the Clinton campaign
she placed significant blame on Bill Clinton and his racially tinged statements in South Carolina. She also felt that Clinton made a tactical error in making "experience and inevitability" her central campaign themes. Townsend argued that Clinton had little more experience than Obama and far less than candidates such as Senators Dodd and Biden. Additionally, making the inevitability claim hurt her when she lost Iowa
And the ultimate
She said that she called the Clinton campaign and advised that they 'go out on a high note' but her advice was politely dismissed."
So is today's meltdown the final battle? Will Obama's response tying her 35 years experience and not having it both ways with NAFTA be the final nail in the Clinton Presidential bid?