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Oregon and Kentucky are holding primaries today. Obama will win one and Clinton the other. While it’s expected that Barack will secure the minimum necessary delegates to ‘clinch’ the nomination, he’s not going to declare victory, because that might look like was trying to ‘push’ Hillary out of the race. Why the Hell not?

I understand the desire to maintain the appearance of being a gentleman, and the need to avoid fracturing the Democratic Party by forceful infighting, but what does this say about Barack and confrontations? I agree with him that we should be willing to talk to just about anyone (I was disappointed the Obama campaign didn’t counter Bush’s “tanks rolling into Poland” speech with the Churchill [who knew something about Nazi tanks] quote “Jaw, Jaw is better than War, War.”) But the time comes when the gentlemanly demeanor needs to be dropped and a leader needs to push and shove. Barack’s unwillingness to do that has me concerned about how he’s going to handle foreign leaders in a crisis. He needs to show he knows when, and how, to stop talking and take decisive action.

Also interesting is that the Obama and McCain campaigns have started ignoring the Clinton campaign. The only group still giving Hillary’s campaign any attention is the MSM, and then only to ask when she’s going to quit. This marginalization shows just how over the Democratic primary is. The New York Times even ran a postmortem article on what went wrong. It seems everyone got the death certificate except the deceased.

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