* Obama understands he needs to beat expectations in Iowa or the
only thing standing between Hillary and the nomination will be
Bert Parks singing "Here she is, Ms. America."
* It is not outside the realm of possibility that it was
anti-Hillary forces within the Democratic party which have been
spreading gossip about Obama with the specific purpose of putting
the Clinton campaign on the defensive.
* Just as it is possible that allies of the Romney campaign have
been making those anti-Mormon push-poll phone calls in Iowa and
New Hampshire specifically to create this syllogism:
-- A push-poll speaking ill of Mormons is a bad thing.
-- Mitt Romney is a Mormon.
-- Ergo, speaking ill of Mitt Romney is a bad thing.
* Politics at this level is not for the faint of heart.
* Let's get back to the Democrats eating their own: Last week, after
a dreadful debate performance, Hillary's campaign allowed as how
it was all those mean boys ganging up on the only girl.
* To my finely tuned ear for conspiracy, it appears that Obama
campaign is tacitly alleging the White Clintons are spreading
rumors about the only Black candidate in the campaign, thus
feeding into the worst of any remaining racial biases in American
politics.
* Robert Novak is known to have been incorrect in his analysis of
the facts before him; but no one in this town has ever shown him
to have invented an item.
* Someone fed Novak that business about the Clintons having dirt on
Obama. Novak has proven he won't give up a source, but it bears
public discussion as to which campaign is helped and which is hurt
by such blind allegations.
* And you thought a thirty-second negative ad was the worst the
system had to offer.