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As the polls show Obama is badly defeating Hillary on the integrity issue, Hillary finally  released her taxes since 2000, but not including 2007, where she conveniently got an extension.
 

Again reinforcing what I keep saying: Hillary ain’t that smart:
 

She could have avoided anything embarrassing on those returns [regarding some shady sources of income for her husband] by simply filing individual returns all these years instead of joint returns.  So she saved a few bucks by filing jointly.  Big deal, considering they earned over 100 mill during that period.
 

She knew as soon as she was elected in 2000 that she definitely run in 2008 if Bush was re-elected.  And she didn’t have the smarts to file joint returns?
 

So is she that cheap or just plain stupid?

Hillary finally weighs in on Wright, saying she would have quit such a church.

Obama comes back after losing Ohio and Texas.  Hillary continues to show the sheer ineptitude of her campaign.  With all that money, she still refuses to pay to get the bodies to show up in the caucus states, and Obama continues to win those caucus states. 

Why won’t Hillary hire a professional to run her campaign, like her husband did in 1992 when he hired talented folks like James Carville and Dick Morris?  Why is Maggie Williams running her campaign? 

The answer is simple.  Maggie Williams is not really running her campaign, she is the campaign manager in name only. 

Hilary is running her campaign. 

Into the ground. 

Her micromanagement of this campaign gives us a glimpse of what kind of president she would be.  She would only hire “yes men”, the exact opposite of her husband hiring a guy like Dick Morris. 

Hillary has zero political smarts.

What to make from Hillary’s Victories in Ohio and Texas: For the very first time in this 2008 race, some of the negatives against Obama may be sticking.  Hard to tell right now.

The very first policy position Hillary Clinton took as a US Senator was to propose the abolition of the Electoral College in the wake of Al Gore’s defeat despite winning the popular vote. In reality, if Hillary’s position ever became law, the voters of the smaller states would become largely disenfranchised, since presidential candidates would campaign only in the most populous states, since that’s where al the votes would be if the popular vote decided who was elected president.
 

Obama can score big points throughout America against Hillary on this issue, since there are far more small states than big ones.

Once the nomination is decided, there is plenty of material to use against John McCain that hasn’t been used yet. Most of his weaknesses concern his demeanor and personality, which has often been very un-presidential. This can hurt McCain at his biggest strength, his image as a strong leader.

Let me know if you want me to put that in a follow-up of this.

Obama will hit Hillary on her refusal to release her income taxes.  This is because she filed a joint return with Bill, who has received a great deal of money from some foreign countries and foreign interest that may be tied to terrorism. 

During the Bill Clinton presidency, all we heard ad nauseum from Hillary fans was how she was the “brains” behind ther husband. 

What BS. 

Hillary has very little political smarts.  In this situation, all she had to do was file a separate return and none of her husbands’ sources of income would be an issue.  But she wanted to save a few bucks, so she filed jointly, not having the political smarts to figure out that this would cause a problem. 

What a buffoon.

While in the Illinois Senate, Obama cast some very bad out-of-the-mainstream votes, including one where he was the only member of the Senate to vote against a bill to get tough against sexual predators. Thus far Obama has claimed that he cast these bad votes by “mistake”, hitting the wrong lever.
 

This could be damaging because up to this point, Obama scored much higher than Hillary in the honesty department. His excuse for casting these bad votes will not be believed by the voters and could be the first major crack in his “honesty and integrity” armor.

Despite winning Ohio and Texas, thus saving her from Oblivion, Hillary is still behind in the delegate count and will get desperate and go negative even harder than she already has. 

Since all the voters already pretty much know everything there is to know about Hillary, her numbers will not go up. Her only chance is for her to bring Obama’s numbers down, since Obama is still unknown to many voters.

Hillary or her surrogates have already put out nasty mailers in South Carolina regarding Obama being a Muslim, which is, of course, false. However, that seed may have been deliberately planted in voters’ minds for the next attack; against Obama’s church. Thus far stories have been leaked to the press concerning this church, but it has yet to become a campaign issue.

Obama has attended The Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, whose pastor is black radical Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Among other rants, Wright preaches that “We [America] believe in white supremacy and black inferiority and believe it more than we believe in God .”

As a general rule, attacking your opponents’ religion will almost always backfire. However, there is a racial element here, and the anti-white bigotry is scary stuff. It can possibly scare still-undecided swing voters, almost all of whom are white. Expect this to be Hillary’s next attack, and expect it to come from a surrogate, not from Bill or Hillary.

Why has Bill Clinton been so out of control?  Wagging the finger at reporters this year exactly the same way he did at the camera when he declared “I never had sex with that woman!!!”  Even flagrantly using the race card against Obama? 

The reason is simple: It’s his only chance to secure his place in history as a quasi-great president. 

Should Hillary win, it would not only reinforce that the country once again needed the Clintons, but that the 2000 Bush victory (in between the two Clinton presidencies) was an historical blip; a mistake in fact, because thousands of Gore voters in Florida didn’t know how to fill out the ballots properly.  Therefore, a victory by Hillary would simply correct that historical wrong, and should Hillary Clinton go on to have a successful presidency, Bill Clinton’s presidency would be looked upon far more favorably by history.

On the other hand, should Hillary go down, Bill’s presidency will be remembered 20 years from now the same way it’s remembered today; as a disgraced impeached president whose most notable achievement was being fodder for Jay Leno every night.  No one will remember that Clinton fixed America’s most serious economic crisis in this generation as well as our most serious social problem in this generation (welfare). 

That’s why he needs Hillary to win so badly. 

And that’s why his negative campaigning against Obama (which has gone totally against everything he’s ever stood for) had been so out of control that it has in fact backfired in Obama’s favor. 

And finally, that’s why he’s stayed married to Hillary all this time (and her to him).  

Folks, here’s what happened in South Carolina and why Obama crushed Hillary: All the polls leading into Saturday had Obama leading Hillary by 4-6 points, with Hillary capturing 90%of the white vote.  In the end, Obama did much better than expected because most polls only poll what they refer to as “likely voters”, meaning voters who have voted in the past 3 elections.  These polls did not pick up all the young voters that had never before voted who were energized by Obama, many of them white. 

Polls likewise underestimated young and first-time voters in Jesse Ventura’s 1998 victory [which no poll showed him winning], as well as badly underestimated Ross Perot’s eventual 19% of the vote in 1992 for the same reason.

The negative attacks against Obama by the Clintons, as well as Hillary’s ability to drag Obama into a pissing match during the debate may have been effective in bringing down Obama’s support among white voters.  However, the Clintons hadn’t counted on the young white voters who had never before voted, and had no emotional ties to Bill Clinton, as most white Democratic voters did. 

Bill Clinton’s response to the crushing 2-1 defeat “No big deal, Jesse Jackson won South Carolina too” is another attempt to marginalize Obama as another typical “black” politician [in this case Jesse Jackson, who still remains very unpopular with white voters].  As a result of this quote, expect the Clintons to dig further into the gutter with more personal attacks against Oasma  regarding Obama’s controversial church, some of his questionable business dealings, and some of his bizarre votes in the Illinois state legislature.