Watching the Clinton campaign over the last few days as Texas/Ohio approaches has been very telling. As the weekend has gone on, she’s turning into a Looney Tunes character. All I can see when I watch her now is a cartoon fighting on an ACME brand pirate ship, desperately shoving everything she has left into her cannons.

Unfortunately for our crazy toon heroine, forks and butter knives won’t sink the S.S. Obama.

There was a bit of Clinton schizophrenia going on during the last Democrat debate. Hillary played it far too cool for the vast majority of the debate, coming across as bland and uninspiring, yet at the very tail-end she tried to zing Obama hard by decrying his charisma and crowd-please rhetoric as “messages you can xerox.”

Then over the weekend Hillary slapped on her neon yellow ‘lookit me’ outfit and turned into a sarcasm machine, exclaiming:

“Now I can stand up here and say: Let’s just get everybody together, let’s get unified, the sky will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing, and everyone will know we should do the right thing, and the world will be perfect,” Clinton told supporters here at Rhode Island College.

“Maybe I just lived a little long. But I have no illusions about how hard this is going to be,” Clinton continued. “You are not going to wave a magic wand and have the special interests disappear.”

I actually thought this was a pretty good line, the most damning assault by a major candidate against the emptiness of Obama, but Hillary’s delivery was pretty poor– coming across as rehearsed and stilted as her assaults often do. Beyond that, I don’t think the Democrat base that has already been sipping the Obama kool-aid will listen to her now. She’s become the enemy, the shrill bitter loser who is opposed to their blessed Messiah agent-of-change.

So the bad news there is that unless Hillary pulls some magic off (in a suit better than the one she’s been wearing) we’ll be facing Obama in the fall. The good news is that Hillary’s attack won’t be dismissed as readily coming from McCain. The target also won’t be the same. McCain can’t go after the Democrat party faithful who have pie-in-the-sky dreams of Utopiobama; he’ll be going after independent meek voters who will at least be willing to hear our cranky old man out on the issues of inexperience and Obama delusions.

I said Hillary would have to do better, and if this morning’s magic is the best she’s got left, then she’s screwed with a capital Bill Clinton. (via Patterico)

With a week to go until the Texas and Ohio primaries, stressed Clinton staffers circulated a photo over the weekend of a “dressed” Barack Obama.The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat frontrunner fitted as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya.

The senator was on a five-country tour of Africa.

“Wouldn’t we be seeing this on the cover of every magazine if it were HRC?” questioned one campaign staffer, in an email obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT.

In December, the campaign asked one of its volunteer county coordinators in Iowa to step down after the person forwarded an e-mail falsely stating that Barack Obama is a Muslim.

Yeah, way to go. Throw out pictures of Obama in a costume that most Americans won’t recognize– that’ll teach him. That will stop his stealing quotations of lines from many orators like Martin Luther King.

Are you people dense? This is the best that the dreaded Clinton machine can muster in the closing hours of the fight for its life? At first it might make you wonder what all the fuss was about during the last two decades over Bill and Hillary, but you have to keep it in focus.

They’re trying to smear a Democrat. The media will not shill for this on this. Even more, they’re trying to smear the “first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.” You’re not getting away with that. You can mock Rush Limbaugh’s drug problems or accuse people of questioning your patriotism for sympathy if it’s a Republican, but the Clinton tricks appear impotent (never thought I’d use ‘Clinton’ and ‘impotent’ in the same sentence) against a figure that liberals can adore.

So what else can you pull out of your… hat, Hillary? Let’s hope it’s big, because I really want to watch you go down in defeat this November.

Michelle Malkin illustrates in a photo essay the naivety of many Politicians in playing dress up.

Sister Toldjah thinks Hillary has hit rock bottom.

Also see Sister Toldjah on Hillary’s Suit of Armor plea.

When you have an unlikeable person like Hillary Clinton attacking the rhetorical skills of someone who has based a large part of his candidacy on the ability to successfully sway significant numbers of people with his misleading eloquence, the political reality is that such attacks rarely work.

Bingo.

Gina Cobb has some liberal reaction. (They’re a bit confused.)

Hot Air has the non-denial ’so what.’

Blackfive doesn’t think taking on the kool-aid drinkers will work well for Hillary. Agreed.

QandO thinks this is a perfect illustration of what we shouldn’t try against Obama in the general.

At Instapundit: “I’m rubber, you’re glue.”

Update:

Red State has a list of a few things Republicans could go after Obama on:

We will remind people that Obama admitted using cocaine. While the left loves to accuse George Bush of doing the same, one of these two men wrote a book and admitted he did so. And that man’s name is not Bush.

We will point out that when Obama was in the Illinois Senate he voted to allow porn shops to open within 1,000 feet of churches and elementary schools.

Likewise, Obama voted against trying high school students as adults if they committed gun crimes on school grounds — I’m sure the folks in Colorado will love that vote.

Obama says he only wants gun owners to be able to use their guns for sport and he has a record to prove it. Obama supported allowing criminals to sue their victims if their victims shot them.

Crucially, for those pro-life voters who right now seem to be fawning over Obama, we’ll remind them that he is to the left of Hillary on abortion — going so far as to oppose the Born Alive Infant Protection Act.

They could, but I don’t know if they will. We’re usually inept, and please don’t underestimate the kool-aid.

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