Several years ago, I was pregnant with my kidlet. I went into preterm labor several months before kidlet was due for unknown reasons, and spent a total of about two months, off and on, in the hospital, on a variety of tocolytics.
Over the duration of my pregnancy, I had eighteen ultrasounds and an emergency amniocentesis.
The results were consistently the same.
A) I was expecting a child of (x) gender, and
B) There was, precisely, ONE baby
My mother, an evangelical wingnut who is to this day convinced that she's a prophet of god, insisted that I was having twins, even though they did not run in my family genetically and contrary to medical tests. When I had one child, she didn't talk to me for a month.
My OB, on the other hand, was certain that I was not bearing twins. He had the scientific evidence to prove it.
Tonight, I heard someone (probably Pat Buchanan) on MSNBC talk about how "anything is possible" for the Hillary Clinton campaign. It doesn't matter that she's down in the popular vote, the number of states won, or the delegate count (pledged or otherwise). It reminded me of my pregnancy and my mother.
It doesn't matter what the raw science/numbers say. All that matters is what is believed by someone, regardless of how far fetched that may be.
I'm sorry, Senator Clinton. Go ahead and run for another three weeks. But when Senator Obama has more delegates, pledged and otherwise, states won, and votes overall, it's time to realize that the utlrasound and amnio are right.
The president this country will birth is a male, and his name is Barack Obama.