Dem Presidential Primary: The Lay of the Land, and BOOHOO’s ‘Boohoo Booboo’

I still stand by my prediction 3-1/2 weeks ago that the candidate I refer to as HR4C (Hillary Rodham Cackling Crying Complaining Clinton) will not be the next President of the United States.

She looked dead and buried after Super Tuesday and the roughly 10 contests that followed. Now there’s at least a pulse.

Who would have anticipated that the candidate I refer to as BOOHOO (Barack O-bomba Overseas Hussein “Obambi” Obama) would stumble as badly as he has?

Don’t let the still-frequent “Messiah” talk fool you. The bloom has been coming off this rose at (for his supporters) an alarming rate. It wasn’t until Bill Clinton was in office for a while that scandal fatigue set in. I’m starting to feel it with Obama, and it’s eight months BEFORE November’s elections.

I still think Obama will win in Ohio and Texas today, but probably not by the double-digit margins that seemed assured in the wake of Beltway Tuesday and Wisconsin. The Illinois senator has done an awful lot to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory since then — so much that I’m not going to chronicle it all, in the interest of keeping this post shorter than a book. Suffice it to say that at this rate, if the primaries were a week from now instead of today, he might have been on track to lose them both.

There may even be enough visible chinks in his armor after tonight that the calls for Mrs. Clinton to withdraw, even with two narrow losses, might not come.

And here’s a final pre-primary “booboo” by BOOHOO — Obama is described in various places today (here and here, for starters) as having in essence stalked out of a press conference on the Rezko situation yesterday (”Obama answered curtly and then walked out after a staffer called last question”). Does anyone remember Bill Clinton doing anything like this during his 1992 presidential campaign? Grouches are not convincing as Messiahs.

Thank goodness Chicago reporters, doing a job the rest of Old Media won’t do, decided to ask some (emphasis “some”) tough questions (Update: This Washington Post report by Dana Milbank indicates that Reuters and AP were among the “lumbering beasts” in the press corps that “finally roused itself from its slumber”).

Talk host Mark Levin last night asked another that deserves an answer: “Senator Obama, you have previously said that you ‘made a mistake’ in the Rezko situation? What was that mistake?” We’ve never heard an answer to that, and voters deserve to know. Reverse Spin has yet another question.

Referring back to BOOHOO’s “boohoo” press-conference disposition — Barnyard Conservative refers back to this BizzyBlog item from December 2006 and wonders “if Maureen Dowd will write about this latest sensitive side of Barack.” Well, Dowd WAS worried about toughening him up. But because Obama had a free pass for over a year from Old Media, that never happened. It shows, and it will hurt him.

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UPDATE: It looks like BOOHOO and his wife, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama, are the ones that should have been on Saturday Night Live a few days ago. Based on this complaint (”Press Bought Into Clinton Line on Bias”), they could have reprised The Whiners.