I watched Hillary's victory speech after routing Obama in West Virginia. Billed by her supporters as one of the greatest political speeches of all time, if excellence in wishful thinking was the criterion I'd give her an A plus. I have to give her credit because of the three candidates she proved that if evil space monsters bent on the subjugation of earth ever invade us and need a foil to get the population to lay down their arms and becoming willing slaves, I'd say Hillary is their girl.

If Hillary Clinton was in a battle to save the nation from four years of George W. Bush lite or George W. Bush heavy or wherever Senator John McCain falls on that scale, I would urge her to fight to the bitter end. But the polls clearly show she isn't. Barak Obama has as much chance of beating McCain as she does.

After a long hard winter working the gulag of the campaign trail, two blissful weeks on the beach at the Caribbean compound of one of her wealthy friends soaking up the sun sure would surely be preferable over the frantic life she's been leading for the "normal" person she pretends to be.

5/4/08 Not worth a full column: Using the excuse that she wanted to be able to see a questioner from the audience, Hillary rose from her chair opposite George's this morning, and never sat down. (NEW: David Brooks noted this too.) George stayed seated for one question but when it became apparent Hillary wasn't about to sit down, he also stood up and had to stand for the rest of the hour.

I just watched the Wright segment that Steven Colbert chose to show on his late night show. It was him demonstrating the marching styles of what he would have you think are exclusively white college marching bands with those of Grambling and of Florida A and M.

He described the "white bands" as marching "in excellent European precision" (and obviously many of them don't) and then got all loosey goosey and sing songy as he did a weird imitation of the jive and jazzy marching style of the mostly black college's bands.

Barak Obama did what he needed to do a few weeks ago by distancing himself from his pastor's inflammatory rhetoric. That was before Rev. Wright made himself into a show biz franchise. After Rev. Jeremiah Wright's speeches at the NAACP meeting and the National Press Club it has become apparent that Obama's biggest challenge now is to marginalize this spotlight hogging blowhard.

Most white Democratic women support Hillary. They see her as the first of their gender to break this, the ultimate American glass ceiling for women. Their husbands and brothers may support her for one or both of two very different reasons.

One, they simply don't want to vote for a (half) black person, something that has been discussed by analysts. I won't address that here. Another reason seems to have been ignored. This is that they just can't conceive of Hill really being the boss of Bill * if she gets elected.

I am so angry I scream inside the more I read about how Clinton is casting Obama as a snob for the "blue collar voters are bitter" remark. When I see her and her surrogates making an issue of this in televised comments I have all I can do to stop from throwing something at the screen.

Must we elect the candidate who is the most adept at talking down to voters who don't have the stellar IQ which they do without seeming to be talking down to them? I wrote about this in my previous column but now I feel compelled to write this follow-up.

Update 4/12/08: Click to read this NY Times article and Is Obama a snob? on CHB, and reconsider the following. We had three glimpses into Obama's personality two weeks ago, and now a fourth, which may convey the impression to some that he's a prissy intellectual (and now an elitist). Prissy intellectuals (and those perceived as elitists) from Adlai Stevenson to Michael Dukakis don't become president.

If Hillary Clinton, who no doubt is as much an intellectual as Obama, convinces enough blue collar voters he's an elitist, and worse, a snob, and he runs against McCain with his war hero and regular guy image, she could be handing the election to a Republican.

When I wrote my column "Does Hillary have a Monica motor driving her to be the boss of Bill? (LINK) on January 28 I decided to support Barak Obama. That was before Super Tuesday when he became her most formidable competition.

We've seen signs of Bush coming unwrapped in public appearances such as his recent singing at the Gridiron Club. More about his made up lyrics later. According to Maureen Dowd in "more candid off-the-record ones (comments) — he has seemed goofily happy in recent weeks, prickly no more but strangely liberated and ebullient."

Dowd even invokes the name of the father of psychoanalysis, speculating that perhaps he's on a Freudian trip.