I have come to the conclusion that when it comes to presidential politics, Hillary Clinton is like a party guest who has overstayed her welcome and needs to go home.
   This Saturday, the Democratic National Credentials Committee will decide what to do with the delegates from Florida and Michigan, the two states which moved their primaries and were punished as a result.     
    Already the democrats’ legal team says the most that could happen is that half the delegates from both states get seated. 
    Hillary says all the votes should count. But that’s like saying someone who robbed a bank should get to keep some of the money.
    The states of Michigan and Florida broke the rules and cut in line in front of a lot of other states, and they should have to live with those consequences.
   I also think it’s funny that Clinton keeps saying she leads in popular vote if you count the two states.  She conviently leaves out the fact that Obama did not campaign in Florida and wasn’t on the ballot in Michigan. 
  And she also leaves out votes in caucus states like Iowa, Nevada, Maine and Washington.

  For Cinton to say she’s the front runner is like my son telling me he was valedictorian in summer school. I told him to go somewhere and sit his rear end down.
  Maybe the democrats will tell that to Hillary.

  It’s over for Hillary Clinton.

  Yes, she won Indiana yesterday, coming from behind after early polls showed her losing, and even though many of the state’s Democrats live in Barack Obama’s home TV market.  But she didn’t do what she needed to do, because she lost North Carolina.

  Going into yesterday, Clinton was like a baseball team playing a doubleheader against the team it’s chasing in the standings during the last week of the season.  The team that’s behind has to sweep the doubleheader.  It can’t split.  In a split, the standings don’t change, and you get that much closer to the end of the season.  Furthermore, in baseball, all games are equal.  In politics, they aren’t.  Much as it pains Hoosiers to hear this, North Carolina has become a bigger state, with more people and more convention delegates.  By winning it, Obama won the bigger prize.

  No, Clinton won’t give up.  It isn’t in her DNA or her husband’s.  They’ll continue calling superdelegates at all hours of the day and night.  But there aren’t enough left to make a difference.  Clinton would have to get an unrealistic number of the remaining delegates to win the nomination, and splitting yesterday doesn’t give her any unrefutable arguments that they should all vote for her.

When Indiana superdelegate Joe Andrew entered Obama state headquarters yesterday to change sides in the Presidential race, he was carrying more knives than Brutus entering the Forum. One, to stab Hillary Clinton, to whom he’d already pledged his convention vote. A second, for Bill Clinton, who had made him Democratic National Chairman. And a third, for close Clinton ally Evan Bayh. That pretty much takes care of Andrew’s list of political benefactors.

Andrew says he’s been “inspired” by Barack Obama. He says it’s time to rise above the Old Politics and unite people and that he sees Obama as someone who can do that. He even threw in a mea culpa confessing to being a practitioner of the Old Politics throughout his own career. (Really?) But isn’t this classic Old Politics, jumping off what you perceive as a sinking ship and throwing in your lot with the people you think are going to win?

Andrew says the long nomination fight is hurting the Democratic Party and needs to be brought to a halt. Presumably that includes putting an end to criticism of the other side. But then he turned around and engaged in more Old Politics by sticking another knife in Hillary, calling her a panderer.

After he praised Obama for not pandering on the gasoline tax issue and then ripped the Clinton position, I asked him if Clinton had pandered. His response, “No question about it.” He even threw her in with John McCain. How is that uniting the party?

If Obama wins the nomination, Andrew will probably be sitting pretty. But if Clinton wins, he will probably go to the top of the persona non grata list.