If Barack Obama has had a rough start to his presidency, and it's easy to say that he has. In fact he's made the nation weaker economically than if he had not taken any action at all. (That left little to be desired by his opponents.) Then he adopts the exact same stance on detainees, Gitmo, and the War on Terror as his predecessor. (Which ticked off his friends.) All in all, lots of (*blink blinks) and plenty of (*gulps) for us all to be underwhelmed by what we thought was the product of the second virgin conception in history.

Maybe his rough start has been so colossal that the strike outs of his colleagues are going unnoticed all together. But let's just say that Hillary ain't exactly hitting it out of the park over at the Department of State.

Her task this past weekend was to go to China begging them with hat in hand to buy up more of our quickly devaluing treasury bills.

The problem is they don't wanna buy any more. Especially when they have seen what President Obama has just done by way of financial policy to the American dollar. Our currency, once he's printed enough to pay for everything he just signed into law will be on its way to becoming about as valuable as the Zimbabwe, Haitian, or Somali currency...

Stock up on some gold friends, the Ron Paulnuts were telling us it was a poor situation PRIOR to the bailouts, but now everyone will be seeing it for themselves... China isn't buying it nor our debt. And wise Americans would look at the rationale why... and follow suit.

I was just counting the ironies in this headline:

Clinton says world "exhaling" with Obama at top

Hillary's voters have become the swing vote. And Wolfson believes that McCain may have just given the "Maverick" the boost he needs to swing the election...

Did Hillary just attempt to secure her spot on the United States Supreme Court? Perhaps so. In one of the most unsurprising moments in the convention - given that the plan had been leaked to the media since SUNDAY that she would do it - Hillary Clinton called for the suspension of the count, and the affirmation of Barack Obama to be the nominee by voice vote.

She had more votes cast for her.

She had more supporters, and depending on how Florida and Michigan would've gone in the actual count, she could have had more votes on the floor at the convention.

Knowing that Hillary doesn't do anything without triangulating something out of the deal for herself, one has to wonder - WHAT did she get?

And WHEN does she get it?

History in the making indeed, but isn't it sad - that it wasn't done the way every other Democratic nominee has been nominated in this brief century - or the previous?


Even when I was the first pundit to predict that Obama would be the nominee - I never believed it would come down to hi-jinx, smoke-filled rooms, and the promise of Hillary looming large in the Supreme Court's future...

It's actually a pretty slimy way for a man who is a descendant of several races to be back-doored into the nomination...

10 generic mentions of Obama, and all of them attached to her own accomplishments. She toted him around like Paris Hilton does her purse puppy.

She also rubbed his nose in his poo and put him back in his cage.

Hillary showed to the world tonight quite likely why she might have HAD more actual votes in the Democratic primary than Obama did. But aside from a couple of glancing blows (not head on collisions) on the "possible policies" of John McCain she did nothing to help her ticket at all.

Look its easy to come out and repeat the written script from the teleprompter that says "I support Barack Obama."

But in very Clintonian style and ease, Hillary just set herself up for the 2012 run when she very covertly helps the Obamas NOT make history in 2008.

End of story...

The question now becomes though... did all the nasty things she said about Obama suddenly become not true today? Experience, Corruption, Judgment, Does Obama now suddenly possess these qualities to Hillary's supporters?

Personally - I don't think she wants, nor will work in earnest for Obama to win. His failure is her last chance to return to the main stage... And one thing we all have come to learn about the Clintons... they don't like someone else sucking up their oxygen.

It's hard to imagine just how strangely bizarre this experience must have been...

So I'm laying in bed just checking a couple of things before I call it a night, when the Lovely Bride starts getting superiorly indignant. She did so at what had to be one of the dumbest things that MSNBC has ever posted...

Just check some of the quotes...

First from the elderly:
"It would hurt my feelings a lot because I think she should be No. 1, she should be president," Heintzman said of Clinton's likely loss to Barack Obama. "Give a woman a chance to do something good."

From the not quite lucid:
"For us, getting a woman elected is major," said Laurine Glynn, 72, of New York City. "We've waited, fought a lot for this. I do worry that my generation won't see a female president."

From the delusional:
"Women are feeling a lot of sadness, disappointment and some anger as they look back at what happened in this race," said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

From those whose Geritol needs to be doubled:
Paula Horwitz, 84, of Pittsburgh, said some younger women "just don't understand. They'll elect a man, and the men will keep on telling the women what to do."

The School of the slightly obvious:
"What Hillary has done — win, lose or draw — has permanently changed the picture," says Marie Wilson, president of the White House Project, which trains women to run for office. "Next time, we're not going to have to prove that the public will vote for a woman. We won't have to prove competency. She has succeeded at that level."

From the school of tough luck:
"It will still be rough for women to come after her," she says. "They'll have to walk that balance of being strong and tough, compassionate and soft. When you're tough, you're called shrill, and the B-word. When you mist over, they say you're weeping."

From the... oh who the heck cares...
"It shows how fragile the loyalty and commitment of women to a female candidate is. That's a pretty scary thing," says Hirshman. "She can count on the female electorate to divide badly and not be reliable."

So a few questions...
Should a president be elected so as to not hurt some South Dakotan 81 year olds feelings? Is the greatest thing this next generation has to worry about is not seeing a female president? (Where does terrorism, economy, and social standards rank?) Was this race really that bad in the Democratic Primary? Seems to me there is a bit of history of bad blood in Democratic Primaries. And actually this seemed tame to me... Where are these men that get to tell women what to do? Let's just say I need to find them, I've got a former boss or two I wouldn't mind turning them loose on. What did that one quote above mean that the next female candidate won't have to prove competency? (Are they planning on tricking us and nominating morons?) And shouldn't ALL candidates, head into candidate believing that voters will divide normally way..?

Bonus parting question: Does two "x" chromosome guarantee some mysterious part of the electorate?

sore loser

Never was there a more loyal Clinton supporter, no one has been more openly supportive of Hillary's candidacy, no one knows the Clinton's better...

And he says, "it's over!"