The campaign grinds on
Hillary Clinton has few weapons in hand to win the Democratic nomination for president
“I THINK it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country.” So said a former president, Bill Clinton, on Friday March 21st, apparently suggesting that Barack Obama, the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, is insufficiently patriotic.
Such an attack seems unusually mischievous, even for a former president who is desperate to bolster the chances of his wife, Hillary Clinton, in the nomination. She has enjoyed a good spell recently, shifting momentum away from Mr Obama, the result of doggedness and hard work on her part and of a scandal of sorts that lingers over him. But the prospect of a Clinton returning to the White House remains dim. Mr Obama has a commanding lead over Mrs Clinton in votes, in Democratic delegates and in states won. He is beating her, and his leads are most unlikely to be overturned in the few Democratic primaries that remain.
