The last week in March was, with little doubt, one of the most trying for the Clinton campaign. Her quest to gain superdelegates was blunted by Bob Casey and Bill Richardson, two major party players who have clearly recognized the writing on the wall. The core of her experience rationale was called into question when it was revealed that, on multiple occasions, Hillary had dramatically exaggerated her experience landing in war-torn Bosnia. It was also revealed that she had almost nothing to do with the SCHIP program she claimed to have created, with a number of those involved describing her accounts as straining credulity. She still hasn't released her tax returns, without explanation or justification and, she was quoted as taking credit for lobbying for the Family Medical Leave Act's passage, though it had passed the House and Senate before her husband took office.

The tone and tenor of her campaign has also taken a surprising turn, becoming more and more a vehicle for open hypocrisy. Out of one side of her mouth, Hillary argues that all remaining contests should be completed before a decision is made and that Florida and Michigan ought to be seated for fear of their disenfranchisement. Out of the other side, she argues that the delegates that were allocated based on state primaries and caucuses should actually ignore their obligation to support the candidate to which they were pledged. She is uncomfortable disenfranchising Florida and Michigan, but perfectly content tossing out the other forty eight.

Man, did I have a tough morning. I went outside to get the newspaper and, from out of nowhere, seven samurai, Bushido blades shimmering, attacked. Pulling an AK-47 out of my bathrobe I mowed them down. Sensing more danger, I whirled as the legendary Golden Gorilla of Oingo-Boingo swung down from a tree, fangs bared. I dispatched it with the grenade I carry in my skivvies for just such an occasion. Grabbing the newspaper, I spotted terrorist leader Ali-Ali Oxenfree closing in for the kill. Unsheathing my scimitar, I beheaded him near the petunias. I then, made it back into the house, discovering D.B. Cooper, alive and well, en route.

What? You say you have video of me just scratching my butt and watching “The Today Show?” Uh, I misspoke. I misremembered. I was tired. I slept on my leg funny. Hey, I’m only human.

Now, the popular political theory currently circulating is that if you criticize Clinton, you’re doing so because you’re a sexist. You don’t want to see a woman in the White House. You’re a zombie in the thrall of Obama!

Naaah. Not me! I criticize Clinton because she’s running a doddering campaign filled with half-truths and embellishments that harkens back to the antiquated Good Ol’ Boy days of political hogwash. After seven years of Bush, we deserve better.

The lack of oversight characterizing both the Bush administration and crony capitalism have bankrupted the U.S. and created the need for perpetual war. It’s unclear if November 2008 will change anything or if we can even wait that long.

The US Congress, the US media, the American people, and the United Nations, are looking the other way as Cheney prepares his attack on Iran.

If only America had an independent media and an opposition party. If there were a shred of integrity left in American political life, perhaps a third act of naked aggression — a third war crime under the Nuremberg standard — by the Bush Regime could be prevented.

Americans seem to have accepted dysfunctional government as unavoidable. Another president, another congress will soon come to power. Amid the noise, the blaring trumpets, the delirium that ushers another president into office, is the quiet acceptance that whatever the new guy does it won’t be done for ordinary Americans. During the Bush Administration, many Americans have been innocently unaware of the quiet, insidious changes that were calculated into their lives. Some like to think the next president will restore the Constitutional Rights that were taken from them. They are fully aware that the Bush Administration has taken an ax to the foundations of democracy. They’ll look hopefully to the new president to restore those rights, and put things back. But there are some things that once they are gone can’t be brought back.

The sad thing about the attacks on Senator Obama for things said by his wife and by his pastor is that attention was paid to them by anyone except Jon Stewart. It was as if the senator were being pilloried for consorting with persons who claimed that grass is green, and — the horror, the horror! — that water even runs downhill.