No one else has ever had a greater free ride than Barack Hussein Obama.  No one else, certainly not John McCain, who at least has been vetted through a previous presidential contest.

The Clintons have been savaged by the MSM for sixteen years and counting.  The MSM is savaging them today, as they did yesterday, and the day before, and--well, it has been so long one forgets the kind words for the Clintons from any news outlet inasmuch as they are rarely heard.  But then again, getting rid of the Clintons has been the MSM's #1 objective, since Bill was "the one that got away" from their wrath as early as 1992.

I believe that in the end Hillary Clinton will astonish her many critics, and like her husband before her prevail, either by winning the Democratic nomination or by bolting the party and running independently.  Her epitaph has been proclaimed some dozen times by the MSM just in the past three months alone.

Barack Obama's candidacy was never more serious than his conspicuous and well-funded proponents would have wanted the rest of us to believe.

So despite his very free ride, a fawning press, thousands of newspaper endorsements, and the Howard Dean machine behind him, he is at best polling tied with Senator Clinton and about to lose yet another key major state, Pennsylvania.

If the contest becomes McCain versus Obama, this lifelong Democrat, and his family of lifelong Democrats, will gladly be in the McCain column come the fall.  This would all be our first time voting for a GOP candidate; my mother in sixty years, for myself in thirty-seven years, and for the rest of our family also representing many years.

John McCain, and even George Walker Bush before him, never savaged the Clintons the way Barack Obama's group has.  This is the first time in the history of American politics that a sizebable chunk of one major party has savaged its own past President and First Lady.  Before this year, that was an absolute no-no.

Contrast this savage treatment of the Clintons from the Howard Dean Democratic machine with the GOP contests, not any of which savaged George Walker Bush, although he had the lowest approval record of any recent president.  The Republicans, bless them after all, still understand propriety and have a measure of loyalty to their own.

If one is a Clinton supporter, believing the Clintons were mostly superb--presiding for the longest peacetime expansion in United States history, in their eight years in the White House--one has no reason whatsoever to vote for Barack Obama.

When I regard Obama, I see an unseasoned pol who wants the brass ring, at any cost, and long before he's ready for it.  His affiliations with all manner of poisonous anti-Clinton forces terrifies me, and his Pastor Wright affiliation terrifies me even more.

Many a non-African American will be equally terrified come the fall.  If it's McCain versus Obama, expect a landslide defeat for the Democrats that will make McGovern, Mondale, and Dukakis losses pale by comparison.

Sadly, the Barack Obama supporters must learn the hard way what we Greek-American supporters also had to learn the hard way about Mike Dukakis.  

Some candidates just can't be sold in a presidential election--whatever the passion of their own crowd.