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Is it all over for Hillary Clinton yet? Has she effectively trashed her chances of entering the White House as POTUS in January, 2009?

Probably not, but the likelihood of her winning the tick from the Democratic Party as their choice for POTUS is fading by the day.

Americans are clearly sick of the Clintons, as they are sick to death of the Bushes. They know they are being conned by the establishment, regardless of whether it is Democrat or Republican or CNN.

Barack Obama has managed to give the impression, which is hopefully true, that he is not a part, or party to, the power elite who did everything they could to ensure the United States invaded, destroyed and depopulated Iraq, and so very quickly emptied the US Treasury.

Some journalists are not waiting until the results are in, they’re already writing off Hillary, and deconstructing how she managed to blow what was widely deemed, only this time last year, to be one of the sweetest and easiest rides into the White House in American presidential history :

She had everything going for her. The most famous name in politics. A solid lead in the polls. A war chest of at least $133 million.
Yet Hillary Clinton now finds herself struggling for political survival, her once-firm grasp of the Democratic presidential nomination seemingly slipping away.

What happened?

Barack Obama, for one thing, a uniquely gifted speaker with a face that appeals deeply to the Democratic Party. He also had a better-organized campaign.

But Democrats say that Clinton, whose central theme is her readiness to be president, also made blunder after blunder. She chose an inexperienced campaign manager, crafted a message that didn’t match the moment, fielded poor organizations in key states and built a budget that ran dry just when she needed money most.

“She got outmaneuvered,” said Mark Mellman, a Democratic strategist who isn’t aligned with any of this year’s candidates. “Her campaign allowed her to be outmaneuvered on several fronts.”

“To think that someone named Clinton with $130 million could end up here is amazing,” another neutral Democratic strategist said.

It’s not that amazing. Americans have become more politically aware since the War On Iraq began, and it’s not exactly a secret that Hillary Clinton voted for the war, and refuses to commit to withdrawing the troops. Obama said he will bring them home. Considering how deeply unpopular the War On Iraq now is, and how its military bodycount has reached into cities, towns and villages across the country, the knowledge that Clinton will keep the war going and Obama will end it (or so he now claims) might be enough in itself to end Hillary’s White House dreams.

The biggest problem of all for Hillary is, of course, that her job is not to end the War On Iraq. Her job is to keep the war going and to keep those hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into the American war industries.

The rest of the deconstruction can be read here.

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