An Iowa Dis And An Iowa Doll

Tomorrow is the New Hampshire Primaries, and I am really looking forward to the results. While Obama and Hillary were neck-and-neck going into the Saturday debates, one day later the polls are showing Obama up by anywhere from one point to thirteen points, with an average from Realclearpolitics.com showing Obama up by 7 points. The next primary is Michigan, where Hillary is up by 23 points (really?), followed by Nevada, where Hillary is also up by 20 points.

It’s no secret that I don ‘t like Hillary, but given her gracious exit from Iowa, the State I was born in and love, I now have zero respect for her. Clinton’s opening remark in her New Hampshire campaign: “Iowa doesn’t have a good track record in determining who’s going to be the presidential nominee.”

I suppose it’s better than saying “If I don’t win here I’ll go on to the next state and tell them that you don’t know anything”, but lets face it, that’s exactly what she is saying.

I watched a lot of Hillary’s campaigning in Iowa over the last year, and I don’t remember her telling potential Iowa voters about how poor their political judgment was? Honestly, I think the only poor judgment that the Iowa voters showed was letting her come in as high as third.

Lets face it, Hillary Clinton is so transparent and heedless in her attempts at calculation, embodied in that sore loser kiss off to the Iowans she professed such love for up until the day after the election. In this respect she’s taken on the worst traits of her husband, treating voters the way her husband has treated women, only even more clumsily.

And then today Hillary got teary, almost breaking down during a news conference. Why? I’m not going to try to offer an opinion, but the thing that I find most interesting is that the discussion of the event on the Democratic blogs, such as democraticunderground.com, is actually swinging toward Hillary’s actions being calculated or a meltdown. On that website 17% of those voting said “Because she truly felt she had a lot to offer the country and now she won't get that opportunity”, while almost twice as many stated “Because she has a lot of ambition and a big ego and her biggest dream may be crashing down”. And this is from Democrats!

All I know is that Hillary Clinton has been telling us since day one that she is ready to be the President the day she takes office, and that she, and she alone can handle any tough issue that the president may have to deal with. If elected, lets hope that she never has to deal with a crisis worse than coming in second in New Hampshire, as that seems to be where the bar has been set.

One other VERY IMPORTANT item: Some of you may have seen the picture on the right in newspapers or other outlets. It has made it into newspapers as far apart as the Sacramento Bee, and the Miami Herald. This photo was taken last week in Iowa on Caucus Day. I don’t include it here merely because it’s a darn cute baby, but I include it here because the baby in question is 15 month-old Caelan Halsted, who is the daughter of fellow blogger and frequent responder here Jody Halsted of http://www.iowageekonline.com/. Congratulations Jody, does this mean that Caelan is announcing her candidacy for the 2044 election?