What's This?? A New Post?!

Well I go away for a while and all hell breaks loose. Oprah on the campaign trail with Obama, Hillary on the ropes for the first time, Huckabee making a serious bid for the nomination on the coat tails of Chuck Norris....am I conscious? Is this happening or have I somehow quantum tunneled into a parallel universe? Added to all this, the writers strike is depriving me of my nightly regimen of Paris Hilton and Larry Craig jokes. Oh, the trials I must endure! Next thing you know, gas will hit 5 bucks a gallon and I'll be forced to...WALK. Imagine that! Actually propelling myself along the surface of Our Good Sphere by using my...legs??!!? Nooooooooo!

With the Iowa Caucuses only weeks away, it's shaping up to be interesting. Despite the fact that Clinton isn't leading there, the Republican candidates are still taking shots at her as if she were the frontrunner. The media still treat her as The Annointed One, but her campaign has been on the defensive of late. She has likability issues, hence the constant toothy grin and spooky forced laugh. I must say, however, that she does have a nice collection of pantsuits.

I'm starting to think Obama actually could win in Iowa. Maybe it's wishful thinking, or perhaps I'm putting too much stock in polls, but the dynamics of the campaign have been shifting in his favor of late, making it hard for Clinton and the media to sell the "inevitability" narrative. An Iowa win could give him momentum for New Hampshire, where he trails Clinton by a small margin. Hell, it doesn't hurt to have Oprah in your corner either. She has the eerie power to convince her legions of almost anything. They'd chew on balls of tinfoil if she so commanded them.