Dude, she never saw him coming. Blindsided.

I understand that, and empathize. But, there is still a craziness factor that goes beyond that horrible shock to her.

I have a friend, a very high-level administrator at a New York state university, who has met her numerous times. He (one of the most amazing people I’ve met) says that she is one of the most amazing people he has met. He says that she comes to these meetings fully prepared and in command of the most intimate details. He says that she obviously had an incredible staff that prepares her for visits to his university. But, he says, her level of awareness and preparation go way beyond what a staff can do.

To put it bluntly, she is clearly a “quick study.” IMHO, the gaffe on Friday was quick-study-on-too-little-sleep. Her comments about June deadlines visibly had nothing to do with anything. The comment about Kennedy’s assassination was strategy-table conversation to illustrate that “anything can happen,” so why get out now?

And, that’s where her logic breaks down for me. Sure anything can happen, but aren’t we all playing for the same team? If something happens we’ll deal with it.

But, I don’t think she’s playing for the same team. She has her neocon adherents, and they’d rather see McCain that Obama — look at Harretz’s Isreal-Factor ratings.

In fact, I no longer believe that she is playing with a full deck.

Dude, she never saw him coming. Blindsided.

Timmeh said on NBC Nightly News last night that The Sheikh locks it up by next Wed. morning, even counting in MI and FL.

Ah, yes, “The Sheikh”. I really don’t know what to think about Obama. All I know is that Hillary has been rapidly declining in my estimation:
– the desperate pleas for last-minute changes to rules to which her campaign had agreed, with claims that anything else would be a crime that calls out to heaven
– the neocon influence among her foreign-policy advisors and fund raisers.
– her calls for a nuclear umbrella for Israel, which already has a nuclear deterrent
– her repeated threats to “obliterate” Iran

In fact, I no longer believe that she is playing with a full deck.