Why Isn't It the End of Hillary? Because she's the War Party's favorite

by Justin Raimondo www.antiwar.com

With Barack Obama sweeping North Carolina – in part due to massive turnout by students and African-Americans – and Indiana (as of 5:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time) very possibly a close call, the numbers should be telling us Hillary Clinton is finished – at least as far as the elected delegates are concerned. The mathematics and the clock would normally doom her campaign, but being the candidate of the Establishment, she's not being counted out. Far from it. The one chance she has, and it's not all that unlikely, is if she manages to convince the "super-delegates" – elected officials and other grand poobahs of the Democratic Party –that Obama is unelectable. If you thought the campaign was dirty at this point, then just wait until you get a gander at what's to come. The smear campaign – a technique the Clintons were always masters of – is going to be something to see. What is clear, by now, is that the War Party is openly rooting for Hillary: see the Weekly Standard for the neocons' paean to Hillary the war goddess. Before the Obama surge nearly wiped her out, she was sounding like Obama in his denunciations of the "war that should never have been fought," i.e., Iraq, yet she shifted gears rather abruptly and began presenting herself as a lunch-bucket know-nothing pro-war demagogue who could pass for Joe Lieberman in drag. Keep Reading... punditman says...If it was an anti-war candidate challenging Obama, (who, like Hilary, is not exactly a George McGovern or a Ron Paul), the person would have been forced out by Democratic Party apparatchiks long ago.