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Hillary Clinton's strategy, according to some pundits, is to defeat Obama by hook, crook, or broomstick in Iowa, lest he gather more momentum. In the Clinton Inc. Boardroom, the thinking is that Edwards is beatable even in his native state of S. Carolina, but that he & Clinton together might head off Obama in Iowa. Even if she doesn't prevail, Edwards has a shot because Edwards has virtually lived in-state for more than two years, surfacing on the East Coast only momentarily to raise funds or campaign in N.H. or S. Car.
Obama is levitating simply because the Clintons can't help themselves, as their political vices have now become habits, and Norman Hsu & his band of bogus-contributors remind voters about the utter lack of ethics these two lawyers [Billary] possess, along with a completely robotic ability to grasp and accumulate funds. And flim-flamm the press with skill and ease.
As negatives on Clinton accumulate like silt on the slow-moving but inevitable river towards nomination, Edwards, himself a lawyer, may be induced to stop attacking Hillary with sub rosa seductions such as promises of a VP slot.
Obama is a lawyer, but seems above the sleaze of the Clinton campaign machine and the Edwards hedge fund hypocrisy. And if Obama wins in Iowa, he may also win in S.Car & N.H., giving him momentum into Super-duper Tuesday.
So Clinton & Edwards must head off Obama in Iowa, or their tandem team of legal shenanigan specialists could founder in their own quicksand slime.
And Hillary's latest rejoinder to Bill Richardson when he jokingly said that Governors make great presidents was "they also make great vice-presidents." As subtle as ever, she would presumably want the quirky but likeable Richardson as her number-two, given Edwards' bizarre offshore hedge fund investments/consultancies.
And Huckabee's levitation in the polls reminds me of another Arkansas eccentric's rise by media manipulation.
The "crazy old aunt in the attic" that allowed Bill Clinton to edge out GHWB in '92.
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