Well I don’t know anything you haven’t already heard on TV but it looks like Hillary Clinton is running out of track. I’m guessing she won’t drop out though and she has good enough reason(s) not to.

Barack could make a big mistake, he is prone to telling the truth and some times the truth can be turned against you, especially in politics. He has some pretty big money running a campaign against him and money can launch some pretty big boats, and swift ones too. He has refused PAC and lobbyist money and that scares the hell out of the top one tenth of one percent. It pleases me a whole lot, he will be more in debt to the average Joe than the millionaires and billionaires.

If Rush Limbaugh is right for once, Hillary would be easier to beat and she isn’t as likely to rock the big boats even if she were elected, so Barack may be swift boated before the convention and Hillary would be well positioned to pick up the pieces.

Then there is the historical fact, we have not been kind to charismatic leaders, Abe Lincoln, JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King, and we’ve wounded the pope and Ronald Reagan and even killed John Lennon. Again, Hillary would be the logical choice to carry on. The back up quarterback. She’ll stay in the race as the back up.

Short of one of these events Barrack will be nominated. His lead is too substantial and his message is too clear. One of the first things I liked about Obama was the clarity of his mind and his ability to express himself so that anyone willing to try, can understand him perfectly well. No true patriot has any problem with him not wearing that stupid lapel pin. The same people with those ribbons on their SUVs think he should wear a lapel pin. We all understand the gas tax holiday is a scam. We all understand how frustrated we of the less than privileged few feel. We also know the difference between a really hard working bright guy and an elitist. We also got the message that Hillary is closer to McCain’s way of thinking than she is to Obama’s. I’ve never had the feeling that Obama is "fishin for a mission" as I see other politicians doing. He seems to know exactly what he is about, what he wants to do and how he wants to do it. I see no sign of him being ruled by dogma and I find that refreshing.

Don’t get me wrong. I’ve always thought the Democrats had the very best candidates this time out. John Edwards was my man but I thought well of all of them. Hillary has never been my first choice because I’ve always thought of her as too establishment, maybe wrongly, but I have. Edwards aside, Barack has been my guy. I just admire his clear thinking too much to think otherwise.

So I think he’ll win the nomination and the election barring some tragedy or a really dirty trick. Barack is an idealist and we have usually thought of ourselves as an idealistic nation. He’s a good fit for what we need to do. We have a lot to do too. It would be pleasant to not listen to all of the hate speech for starters.

I’m not certain when it happened, when the first shoe dropped on political hate. Was it when Nixon was sent packing, or when Ford pardoned him to heal the nation’s wounds or was it when the Republicans decided to hound Clinton from office to get even or was it something else? At any rate the professional Republicans and professional Democrats act like they are working for two different countries. They play a game of tit for tat over the great and the small issues with the same hate and verve as two juvenile gangs. It has to stop, I hope it stops before our country is destroyed but I don’t know how it will happen. Barack wants to try and I’d like to see him try.

Sleep well tonight.

Pat Chandler