As I write this in the early evening it looks like Obama has soundly won in North Carolina and Hillary has won by a good margin in Indiana. Obama has kept up his run of winning southern states with significant black populations while Hillary is winning states with heavier blue collar demographics. We don't know for sure how much Rush Limbaugh's entreaties to his Dittoheads to cross party lines to vote for Hillary has affected the vote but some polls have shown it has convinced some to do so.

Their incentive of course is to ensure Hillary's victory so that all conservatives and Libertarians and some moderates will come out of the woodwork and unite to vote against Hillary in the general election and enable John Boy to win the Big Salami.

We'll leave Rush's strategy alone for now as I want to comment on the fact that Hillary and her people have finally admitted openly that they will try to exercise the Nuclear Option. By that it is meant that she will fight to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations even she agreed "way back when" with the Democratic National Committee to deny the delegates a place at the Convention because those states held their primaries early in defiance of the party's wishes. Now she wants to change the rules because she needs the votes. Neither she not Obama campaigned in Florida although both were on the ballot while in Michigan only Hillary's name was on the ballot as a result of the DNC's decision.

If the DNC is somehow rigged to re-change the rules and Hillary gets those votes which help to push her over the top then the Democratic Party is toast. If Obama retains the popular vote majority but the Super Delegates overturn that vote, the Democratic Party is toast again. I don't know if Obama can beat McCain for sure in the general election but I believe he has won the right to try. If all the new people Obama has brought into the Party and the black voters believe that he was cheated out of his fair chance by the Dem establishment those voters will desert the Dems in drove. They might not vote for McCain but they will simply sit out the vote and McCain will win and he might even develop some coattails from the situation.

It seems that Hillary doesn't care in her quest for power. It seems that she would be okay if the Dems lost this election because then she would get to try again in four years without having to fight a Democratic sitting President. She has certainly run a scorched-earth campaign to make sure Obama will be considered damaged goods by the electorate even if he should win the Dem nod.

I can watch the ego of someone who could do that but I don't think I will ever truly understand the depth of that ambition. Is it evil which causes actions like hers or is it simply some kind of amorality which overlooks any "petty" obstacles on the way to her goal? I'm sure everyone would have an opinion on that but I haven't made my mind up yet. What I do know is that her actions have made me mad. Mad enough to cause me to cut off my nose to spite my face by voting for McCain??? Not hardly but would I cast a throwaway vote? Actually since I'm in Georgia my Presidential vote is probably moot anyway as Georgia is pretty much in the Republican so I might have a bit of personal leeway. That's kind of discouraging in itself but that's also a topic for another post.

Stay tuned....