There are several signs out there that Hillary might call it quits on Tuesday night.

• She is headed for New York, instead of going to either of the final two states voting this week.
• She has left instructions for staffers to either go home and wait for instructions or to hold where they are.

There will be a speech Tuesday night. Despite everything I have been saying the past several weeks, it looks like she might actually step down.

My thinking is to see what is going to become of the campaign’s $12 million deficit to see what happens next. Someone is going to pay that debt off - who does it and when will tell us a lot.

I am wondering how this actually plays out, despite my belief that an Obama/Clinton ticket will not happen for personality reasons alone. The paradox - The dream ticket will be a nightmare administration. Especially for the participants.

Hillary still says she can win and Obama probably has the nomination wrapped up by the end of this week. Will Hillary bow out and support Barak? Will she go to the courts over Michigan and Florida being divided up even-steven? Will the dream ticket arise from the ashes of the party polarizing primary?

We’ll know by the end of the week, won’t we?

Let me first say, it will surprise me greatly to see Hillary Clinton withdraw gracefully from the contest to become the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate.

I predict the plan will be more along the lines of suing the DNC in an attempt to get Florida and Michigan fully into play. Hillary has over $11 million of her own money in this race and she is not going to just go away because Howard Dean thinks she should.

This is going to get ugly - in a beautiful sort of way.

Speaking of that $11 million - I wonder if Hillary ends up suing someone to get that back too, when all is said and done.

“Talk to me, like lovers do…”

That is the message from Hillary Clinton to Barak Obama, as she calls for a 22nd debate - Lincoln-Douglas Style - heading into the NC Primary. Hillary Clinton’s chances of winning in NC are not great in any case.

This smells of desperation - like maybe the deal WILL be done by July, as Howard Dean had forecast.  A debate of this type, without moderators, would be disastrous for Clinton. If she is in a forum where she can affect a Southern accent and maybe knock back a couple of beers and not have anyone moderate her mouth, I think I’d rather watch America’s Top Chef or something.

The Democratic primary race has gone from Democrats choosing the best candidate to lead the country to a “jumped the shark” situation comedy.  It is almost - almost - funny anymore.

It appears that Bubba is not liking the looks of the campaign these days - he really wants to sleep in the White House again.

“It was one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended,” one superdelegate said.

According to those at the meeting, Clinton - who flew in from Chicago with bags under his eyes - was classic old Bill at first, charming and making small talk with the 15 or so delegates who gathered in a room behind the convention stage.

But as the group moved together for the perfunctory photo, Rachel Binah, a former Richardson delegate who now supports Hillary Clinton, told Bill how “sorry” she was to have heard former Clinton campaign manager James Carville call Richardson a “Judas” for backing Obama.

It was as if someone pulled the pin from a grenade.

“Five times to my face (Richardson) said that he would never do that,” a red-faced, finger-pointing Clinton erupted.

The former president then went on a tirade that ran from the media’s unfair treatment of Hillary to questions about the fairness of the votes in state caucuses that voted for Obama. It ended with him asking delegates to imagine what the reaction would be if Obama was trailing by just 1 percent and people were telling him to drop out.

“It was very, very intense,” said one attendee. “Not at all like the Bill of earlier campaigns.”

It is interesting though to see so many Clinton people push away from another Clinton administration.

“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.

If she thinks her landing into Bosnia was corkscrew, wait until she sees her landing between now and November.

I can understand where she is coming from though. I mean, all of us old battle axes tell war stories - commonly known as fairy tales.

Since Hillary has not only not served in the Military, but holds it in deep disdain, she does not realize that war stories - commonly known as fairy tales - are stories you tell over a couple of beers. They are not stories you use to hold an auditorium full of gullible voters spell-bound to your awesomeness, as she did last December. You also do not relate your vast international crisis management experience at 3 AM on the afore-mentioned war story - also known as a fairy tale.

She said she saved Kosovar refugees by persuading Macedonia to reopen its border. And in a direct jab back at Obama, she recalled visiting Bosnia on a plane that made a tight corkscrew landing to avoid potential attacks. “Somebody said there might be sniper fire,” she said, adding tartly, “I don’t remember anyone offering me tea on the tarmac.”

What is most laughable about Hillary’s entire claim of the danger she was exposed to - repeatedly, according to her - is it probably all evolved out of a practical joke by an enterprising military person.

“Welcome Mrs. Clinton, I am Chief Master Sergeant Thompson. We’re on approach now. Please fasten your seatbelt tightly because we are going to have to maneuver evasively as we land to reduce our risk of being shot down. Also, Mrs. Clinton, there is a possibility we could come under sniper fire, so if you hear anyone yell ‘Bravo! Bravo!’ immediately take cover. Do you have any questions for me?”

Sinbad remembers the trip being a lot different.

Now, Senator Clinton says she “misspoke” and it was a “minor blip” - hog wash. She has been telling this story to voters for months. And last week she said,

During a speech last Monday on Iraq, she said of the Bosnia trip: “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

But her book tells a different story.

“Due to reports of snipers in the hills around the airstrip, we were forced to cut short an event on the tarmac with local children, though we did have time to meet them and their teachers and to learn how hard they had worked during the war to continue classes in any safe spot they could find,” Clinton wrote.

Her campaign has reduced this to a single event - something that happened last week, but let me remind you of that December Iowa talk to her voters. I guess it depends on what your definition of “one time” is.

Michael Barone said something this morning that I thought was the best summary of the Democrat National Committee’s position this election cycle.  I’ll paraphrase.

The DNC leadership is going to be in the unenviable position of having to reject either the first black president in our history or the first woman president in our history.

In either case, there is going to be a lot of emotional backlash associated with this - people just being what they are.

As an extension of that thought, I am curious to see if the rejection of one or the other comes out of a decision relating to the “do over” situation in Michigan and Florida. If the DNC leaves Florida and Michigan alone, not only does Dean have to deal with disenfranchisement allegations, but likely be blamed for rejecting one of the candidates by not doing the vote over. If the DNC does Michigan and Florida over there will be blame for rejecting one or the other candidate, combined with the horrible mismanagement debacle that the do-over will cause by setting a precedent for future election cycles.

To my partisan mind, this shows the core of leftist weakness.  The DNC is nothing more than a club, with state and local chapters. These guys can’t even manage and build consensus in their own club, yet they think they can manage the nation’s business. The back-biting between Dean and some of his subordinates and now this fur ball just underscores that.

I kept wondering why we call these political battles, races. I mean, it isn’t about speed. But then Barak Obama confused me.

COLUMBUS, Miss. – In a fiery speech, Obama pushed back hard against charges by Hillary Clinton and her campaign that he is not suited to be Commander-In-Chief, and expressed disbelief at the Clintons’ suggestions that he be vice president.

“Now first of all, with all due respect, with all due respect,” Obama began, “I have won twice as many states as Sen. Clinton. I have won more of the popular vote than Senator Clinton. I have more delegates than Senator Clinton. So I don’t know how somebody who is in second place, is offering the vice presidency to the person who is in first place.

“I mean, I am just wondering, because if I was in second place I could understand it. But I am in first place right now. So that’s point number one.”

He went on to point out how Clinton could consider him as his VP when she and the campaign have been saying that he is not ready to be Commander-In-Chief.

“But there’s a second point,” he said. “This is an interesting point. I want you guys to follow me on this. President Bill Clinton, back in 1992 when he was being asked about his selection for Vice President, he said that the only criteria, the most important criteria for a Vice President, is that that person is ready, if I fell out, in the first week, that he or she will be ready to be the Commander-In-Chief.

So, it is called a race still - but maybe it should be called a marathon. You win this primary race by your endurance to Hillary’s crap. Maybe?