Hillary and the "Do The Right Thing" factor

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24-hours after Hillary Clinton finished a distant third (THIRD!) to Barack Obama in the Iowa Caucuses my inner-Roger Stone prankster (right) began to rev like.........well, the real Roger Stone's. Only he's gotten rich and infamous as a dedicated GOP dirty-trickster. My stuff's been limited to a way exagerrated chainsaw stutter complete with unblinking eye-contact. This to buy beer for my Homies at age 16, get in free to sold-out NFL games, get out of dead-to-right speeding tickets whenever stopped by some unsuspecting and rookie Highway Patrolman. I'm a dilletante who can't keep a straight face. Roger is dedicated. He BELIEVES in his crapola, I can't believe anyone would mistake my crapola for legit more than 30 seconds.

But what WOULD Roger do for Hillary after her corn-fed, Triple-Lutz pratfall yesterday? With 96-hours and counting until New Hampshire? 30-days until February 5 and all the really big states holding their primaries? David Crowley in todays on-line NEW REPUBLIC story described the sweaty desperation aboard the Clinton plane as they flew toward New Hampshire with their chances at roughly three: SLIM! NONE! and FAT!
http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=99fbca21-44b2-4da9-8e2c-0bb32994f0c1

Hold it, Crowley. You cited TNR's very own John Judis' article of 12/18/07 "Hillary Clinton's Firewall" and then skated right past it! Judis cites Tanya Hernandez, a Law School prof at Georgetown University has recently argued that a far older prejudice against Blacks exists in the larger Hispanic commujnities. Which is to say places like Los Angeles, Houston, Philadelphia and New York City. Further, a Duke University study of the same communities associates black males with traits such as "loud," "unmannerly," "antagonistic," "dark-skinned" and "threatening." These folks work every day with Black folks - but they DON'T wan't their kids marrying any.
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=314e8fae-3fd3-4af2-bfde-f0f8e069c1fe.

My friend, a pollster who shall go unnamed, once defined a fundemental difference between the two major political parties: "Both will screw you as fast as look at you, but the Republicans seem to enjoy it a lot more." I am an on-the-wagon Gambling Sicko who once got humiliatingly over my head in high-school betting football point-spreads. Thus I haven't bought so much as a Dollar Lotto Ticket in over 50-years. But what's the bet one or more DLC Roger Stone manque's have already ordered ooh-gobs of Spanish Language........"stuff?"

Last thought: This Sunday night HBO premiers its final season of "The Wire" - IMO a mere half-length behind "The Sopranos" for brilliant TV production qualities. Never been to Baltimore but so what? Interchangeable crack dealers work LA, NYC, Philly and Houston too. If some Friend of Billo's at HBO hasn't already called in a favor for Hillary's 11th-hour "Do The Right Thing" strategy, count on the GOP's Roger Stone to do his magic in the closing weeks of October, 2008. Yeah - it's THAT important.