What is it about the Clintons that makes people dislike them? 

Is it the way they gain advantage or avoid trouble by manipulating "the system" right down to the very language in which they communicate?  Or is it the way they portray themselves as innocent victims when their critics and the news media take them to task for their mistakes? Perhaps it is their proclivity to revise history and the fact that such revisionism became prevalent during their stay in the White House?

Bill kicked it off way back at the beginning of his first term by installing Hillary as a national health care czar, sans congressional approval.  By the time the clock ran down the Clintons had bought a new home in the suburbs of New York City and Bill, the so-called First Black President, had set up his post-presidential office on 125th Street in the heart of Harlem for maximum dramatic effect. 

In a cakewalk, Hillary was able to win her stepping stone senate seat on name recognition and minimum New York State residency alone after her formidable opponent, NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, was forced to quit the race for aggressive cancer treatment.

In between, such phrases as "It depends on what your definition of the word IS is" and "The vast right-wing conspiracy" sadly became part of our national vocabulary. 

In between, the IRS and other federal investigatory agencies were mobilized against Clinton enemies. 

In between, there was adultery, scandal and impeachment.

In between, there was a lot of lip biting and finger pointing. 

In between, defense secrets were sold to foreign nationals. 

In between, an inordinate number of Clinton associates were found guilty and/or dead.

In between, furnishings were removed from the White House.

Whereas Bill Clinton was elected to both of his terms without getting the majority of the popular vote -- assisted by the strong showing of third party candidate, Ross Perot -- Hillary is locked in a serious head-to-head battle with no one to run interference for her. 

Unless the Super Delegates of the Democrat party do the unthinkable and support her over the winner of the plurality of primary delegates or unless she is allowed to be Obama's running mate, Hillary is finished.

Even though the SD's were front-loaded with pro-Clinton movers and shakers; even though Hillary appears to be able to garner a larger portion of the popular vote than Bill ever could; even though there is a risk that Democrat women will cease their support of the party if Hillary's popular vote-gathering ability and feminism are ignored by the Super Delegates, the consensus opinion and financial support of every Democrat who matters from Ted Kennedy to John Edwards and the Soros-backed leftwing websites is that the fresh face will be the one on the party's label this fall.

"The shrinking candidacy of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has all but vanished from the television set," wrote The New York Times.  But don't start feeling sorry for Hill and Bill just yet. 

Once they are banished from the political landscape by their former worshipers, the Clinton's cottage industry -- book writing and speaking engagements -- will grow exponentially.  Not only will they be richer than they ever imagined possible, but the burden of periodic disclosure of their wealth and income to mere strugglers like you and me will be lifted.

Their only worry might be that the IRS and/or some other federal investigatory agency could be mobilized against them by someone in power who learned how to manipulate the system from their example.

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