In politics it does not always  pay to play fair and square and by now the Illinois senator, Barack Obama, must have realised thatrunning a positive civilised campaign against the likes of Bil and Hillary Clinton does not yeild the desired results. The senator himself blames the "kitchen sink" campaign of Hillary and her surrogate number 1, Bill Clinton. I think the camapign was far far worse. Take the 3 a.m. telephone advert, for example, it insuniates that Obama does not have the necessary competence to take the call. Pray what is Hillary Clinton's qualifications to take that call. She has shown that she will do anything to get power and she is not playing by the rules of the game. If the Obama people should go that route, and I am sure that they will not, she has a whole closet full of skeletons just waiting to tumble out. Dirty tricks is the main facor for the defeat in Ohio and Texas.

The timing of the primaries could not be worse for Barack Obama. The indictment of Roscoe for fraud did not help in the least. Though there is nothing to suggest that Obama or his campaign bebefitted from it. Obama distanced himself from Roscoe but not before the Clinton camp threw the muck around. Obama seems to be too idealistic and inspirational to respond to the Clintons in the language they best understand.

The formidable Obama coalition is in imminent danger of imploding. He has so far demonstrated his ability of carrying large sections of the society in a concerted manner.Clinton is beginning to exploit the "mutual contradictions" within the support base of Obama to her advantage. How else can we expalin the sesertion of the Lationa voters of Texas to Clinton in the last moment. And I am sure that Hillary Clinton will play the race card when it suits her.

There is a theory doing the rounds that conservative talks show hosts like Rush Limbaugh would like to see a Hillary vs Maccain encounter in the General elections due in November. And so states that have open primaries like Texas will be targetted for "strategic voting".  If this is true then there is need as I have argued elsewhere in my blog of need to reform the Primary system.