“Hillary and Hypocrisy, live together in perfect harmony. Side by side on the campaign keyboard, oh Lord wait and seeeeeee…”

I thought one of the worst, yet memerable songs in music history was a perfect match for one of the worst, yet memerable campaigns in elections history.

Planted questions, Corkscrew landing, Tears, 3 AM, indicted fundraisers, and now this:

WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign manager, Maggie Williams, earned about $200,000 on the board of a Long Island subprime lender that charged prepayment penalties - a practice that Clinton, a critic of the subprime industry, now seeks to eliminate.

Williams, who took over the reins of Clinton’s campaign in early February, served as a director on the board of the Woodbury-based Delta Financial Corp. from April 2000 until the firm declared bankruptcy in December, according to Securities and Exchange Commission records.

She was recruited by former New York City Deputy Mayor Bill Lynch, a Delta consultant. Her assignments were to create a new code of “best practices,” and to improve the company’s crisis management operation in the wake of state and federal predatory lending probes that resulted in a $12 million payout to borrowers.

Just, wow.

We reported only recently that Hillary had lent her campaign $5 million of her own cash. It didn’t help much. She just is not raising the kind of money it will take to stay in this race, especially considering that public records show her campaign to be almost $7 million in debt.

She is raising about$10 million per month less than Obama, and still trying to spend what Obama is spending.

Ain’t gonna do it! Texas won’t help, Ohio won’t matter.

This is the end.

Hillary 3rd in Iowa Poll

January 3rd, 2008

Only hours before the caucusing begins, the field looks like this:

  1. Obama
  2. Edwards
  3. Clinton

Obama was at 31 percent among likely Democratic caucus-goers, Edwards at 27 percent and Clinton 24 percent. No other Democrat was in double digits.

I don’t believe John Edwards has any chance to be nominated for the general election - which to my mind really puts Hillary in perspective. As the time to actually choosing nears, all the rhetoric, emotional entreaties, and general cheerleader stuff,  disappears from peoples’ minds. Now folks have to actually think about making a binary choice. 1 or 0 - what is it going to be?

I celebrate the defeat of Shrillary by anyone. If it is not  by Barak Obama in the primaries, then I’ll settle for by Fred Thompson in the Fall.