Or does it appear that it is the Obama Campaign that has the sense of destiny...

If the New Hampshire Democratic Party’s 100 Club dinner is any bell weather – Barack Obama will handily win here. When Obama, the dinner’s last speaker, took the stage the crowd surged forward chanting “O-bam-a” and “Fired Up, Ready to Go!” So many people pressed toward the stage that an announcer asked people to “please take their seats for safety concerns.”

By comparison Hillary was twice booed. The first time was when she said she has always and will continue to work for "change for you. The audience, particularly from Obama supporters (they were waving Obama signs) let out a noise that sounded like a thousand people collectively groaning. The second time came a few minutes later when Clinton said: "The there are two big questions for voters in New Hampshire. One is: who will be ready to lead from day one? The second," and here Clinton was forced to pause as boos from the crowd mixed with cheers from her own supporters. "Is who can we nominate who will go the distance against the Republicans?”

I hear that Bill wants to go Negative in a big way... At this stage of the game, I think that would be a BIG mistake. In fact, I could not have said it better than this commentator to the above article...

I think Hillary did a good job; but the huge bounce Iowa got is in the contrast Obama provided. He talked about creating a new coalition and a new majority: that's heady stuff. And when he laid out his definition of hope; that was powerful.

Clinton is apparently trying to label him a flip-flopper for not proposing universal single-payer health care; despite the fact that its an impossible sell. And she's trying to make him out to be the boogeyman of the democratic party.

And its hard to re-define Obama when he's done a good job defining himself.

I think the Clinton's will lose New Hampshire if the debates don't make news against Obama. And there is a palpable feeling that the Clinton camp has an uphill climb. They need to go nuclear on Obama; and the risk of doing so is huge for both Hillary AND Bill.

Yup... History in the making...

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