So...Where Do We Stand Now?

In basketball, when one speaks of having an advantage, one often says "the possession arrow is in his favor." Barack Obama has EVERY possession arrow in his favor at this moment.

Super Tuesday was a fiasco for the Rodham-Clinton forces. Her huge national lead has shrunk to near zero, Obama ended up in a tie -- if not with a small advantage -- in delegates and all of the momentum is on his side.

He's piling up the endorsements, he's raking in the money (Hillary had to "lend" her campaign five million dollars and her staff has had to go without pay) and the next few primaries and caucuses all favor Obama in one way or another, giving him another week or more run in the media as the man on the rise.

Ms. Rodham-Clinton's one remaining advantage -- the Super Delegates (the Democrats' way of pretending to be a party of the people while reserving real power for their overlords) -- is not an advantage at all anymore. After all, most signed on with Rodham-Clinton when she was "inevitable," often selling their souls for access to power. Now that she is losing, those delegates are not only not bound to her, but, one-by-one will be picked off by Obama and his handlers.

Worst of all for Rodham-Clinton, should we see a brokered convention, there is simply no way that the calculating powers-that-be who signed on with Clinton when they thought SHE would be their path to greater personal wealth and power would allow themselves to be seen as "stealing" the election from the black candidate. Could you imagine the "outrage" of the race profiteers if it was seen as Democrats' backroom dealing thwarting their dream of a half-black president?

Thus Obama, who is already winning, has to do is come close to Rodham-Clinton, something that is almost guaranteed given the election scheme by which delegates are doled out on a "proportional" basis.

What Democrat power-monger is going to risk alienating the one group that, until now, was most likely to march in lockstep with the Democrat Party? A brokered convention is an Obama convention.

On the Republican side we now have a presumptive nominee. It is hard not to recognize the differences between a man with his incredible story of heroism, strength and accomplishment versus the two one-term, pampered leftists who have accomplished absolutely nothing in their years of "service" mostly to themselves in the guise of "the people." It's going to come down -- as it almost always does these days -- to the adults versus the children.

The problem is that, thanks to the forty years of leftist control of the public school and media, there are a great many voters who are, in fact, children. They want their bills paid by mommmy and daddy (or the "nanny state" as it is generally recognized to be), without any more concern about how it will be paid for than the child has about how his Christmas presents were paid for. Their "thinking" isn't very deep (has any one of them asked what happens AFTER the Democrats surrender to the terrorists in the Middle East?) and meaningless sloganeering combined with leftist demoguogery is enough to see them sign on to nonsense.

In fact, it was Ms. Rodham-Clinton who made exactly this pitch in her "holiday" ad where she was mommy putting things like good health and good education under the tree for the children to unwrap, willing to believe in the Santa Claus that is the Democrat Party.

At some point Obama is going to have to say more than "hope" and "fear" (two "emotions" being sold to children who thrive on emotionalism and not facts). When he does, imagine the conversation between the grown-up and the adult.

Although I didn't support McCain in the primaries, I do recognize that in every way, he is better than the leftists because he IS an adult. Does that mean I agree with every policy of the adult? Of course not. But I do know that when I need someone to operate complex and heavy machinery, I'd still prefer to have someone experienced and accomplished over inexperienced children who, in one case, hasn't even finished his freshman term and in the other, with only slightly more "experience" than that.

I think, in the end, so will the American people.

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There are some other lessons to be learned at this point and in each of them the leftists were, of course, wrong. Remember when the leftists were screaming about a "vast right-wing conspiracy" out to get the Clintons. Now it turns out the Clintons really were as disgusting as the rest of us recognized them to be. Who says so? The Democrats, of course.

Meanwhile, America was supposed to be so evil that "racism lurk(ed) in every dark shadow in America" according to Joe Biden, but Obama not only won lily white Iowa, but he won a majority of whites in California.

Remember how in evil, horrible America, the person with the most money always wins? Ooops, Mitt Romney had the most money and he's sitting on the sidelines now along with the well-funded campaigns of so many others. Who are the two candidates left standing on the right? The low-budget efforts of a previously little known Governor and John McCain who was so broke at one point that, those on his campaign staff who weren't fired were working without pay.

There's a lot more to go and a lot more to be learned. I hope people will watch, listen and learn.