It appears that Hilary has adopted the fine old tradition of "barnburning" in the Democratic Party.  During its first period, under Jackson and Van Buren, a split develop in the New York party, and one faction became known as "Barnburners" because if they could not  win the intra-party fight, then they would "burn the barn down" and destroy the party's chances in the upcoming election.  Hilary  and her supporters, having gotten themselves into this predicament by not being ready to contest the nomination  contest after "Super Tuesday," now appear intent on destroying Barack  Obama to win the nomination.  Which will be then  be worth then a rapidly declining $1.00 note. She will have zero support in the Black community and among net-roots liberals, she will have made great arguments about why John McCain would be a better Commander-in-Chief then she would be, she would have establish that she is a flip-flopper on Iraq (she was for the war before she was against it), where McCain is not, and finally she has never shown that with her pre-existing negatives she could get more than 48% percent of the vote even before she pissed the African-American Community.   The Republicans are so desperate to win, and prevent a real examination of the crimes of the last eight years, that they have picked McCain, a man most of them despise.  If they win despite this war and this economy, it will be true achievement of the Clintons (who have never been very good for the rest of the party anyway).

On policy matters, she is convincing me every day that she would run a center-right, Wall Street friendly, free-trading economic policy and an equally center-right, lets bomb some brown people on occasion, but not as much as the Republicans would like, foreign policy.  It is not coincidence that the union buster, Mark Penn, and corporate lobbyist Howard Wolfson are her biggest fans.