I’ve been keeping out of this whole Presidential Primary. I am a big Obama supporter, and it has been hard to see a candidate I really believe in, be so smeared and attacked by two people I admire so much. Hillary and Bill Clinton have been merciless. They have been beyond tough. They are, between them, the most experienced, toughest presidential team in maybe all of history. Nobody fights like they do. Up until the arrival of Obama, Bill and Hilliary Clinton were the only functional Democrats that operated on a national scale. They have never been beaten, other than one election in Arkansas in 1980. Hundreds of powerful people owe them favors, as they helped get many of them their jobs. And up until this primary, few people inside the party were more respected than them as a unit, and nobody more than Bill Clinton himself.

That’s why it’s hard to read stuff like this, from the mouth of Bill Clinton:

When I watched that debate last night, I got kinda tickled,” the former President said at an American Legion Hall event in St. Mary’s, Pennsylvania, “After the [debate], her opponents’, oh, the people working were saying, ‘Oh this is so negative, why are they doing this.’ Well they’ve been beatin’ up on her for 15 months. I didn’t hear her whining when he said she was untruthful in Iowa or called her the senator from Punjab.

Right. So. Hilliary Clinton is a weathered strap of rawhide and doesn’t whine after the debate. That may be true. She does however whine during them: From the February 1st Primary debate:

Could I just point out that, in the last several debates, I seem to get the first question all the time? And I don’t mind. You know, I’ll be happy to field them, but I do find it curious. And if anybody saw ‘Saturday Night Live,’ you know, maybe we should ask Barack if he’s comfortable and needs another pillow.

OK. So there you go. I just wanted to point that out. What Bill Clinton said is bullcrap hyperbole. Their whole campaign has been full of that. And it never works. Everybody makes a lot of noise, and talks and talks, and anytime anyone says anything, it’s drug out in the media forever to the general disgust of the population, but really, at the end of the day, the polls never change. Barack Obama is still there, maybe kind of tired looking, but there, trying to stay on message. That is why I believe, when this is all over and Barack is the nominee, he will have no problem beating John McCain. If he can beat the Clintons, what sort of competitor is John McCain? Is he somehow TOUGHER than the Clintons? My guess is no.