Is Mrs. Clinton missing the signs?

The quest for power is an enticing elixir, it can sway your vision of reality and lead you down many roads that might not be in your best interest.

The Democratic Party nomination seems to be providing another one of life's lessons in hubris, as the campaign of Hillary Clinton continues on, removed from the stark facts that the numbers aren't really stacking up in her favour and more importantly perhaps that some long term and lasting damage is being done to the Democrat brand as the Clinton campaign begins to unravel a bit more each week.

Last week a too close to call victory in Indiana was bested by a tidal wave of support for Barack Obama in North Carolina, yet somehow in the midst of those results the Clinton's continued to divine that the nomination will be Madam Clinton's come the convention.

It's to make you wonder at just what point the entitlement to power that seems to permeate the Clinton run will finally run out of zest.

Mrs. Clinton's comments over the last week that seems to drive even more of a racial spike between the two camps is certainly not helpful to the Democrats as they eventually prepare for battle with John McCain and the Republicans.

But even more disturbing, it's a tactic that could very well undo any relationship that the Clinton's will have with what once was one of their strongest bases in politics.

It's been a strange evolution of Mrs. Clinton's campaign, from issues of merit and importance, to grasping at the selling point of being able to hold the "white working vote", a tactic that is certainly not in the vein of an all inclusive party tent, welcoming to all comers and understanding all problems.

Instead, as this seemingly endless march to an abyss continues, the Clinton's have appeared to become shrill and desperate to cling to their dream of a dynasty, with former President Bill feuding with the crowd at a recent meeting, making for a bit of theatre that didn't do much to dissuade observers that he may be doing more harm for his wife's campaign than he's doing good.

The Candidate herself has made a few questionable statements and uttered some strange positioning points of late, all of which must be making the Democratic party apparatus just a little nervous about where it's all going to end.

At times it appears that the Clinton's have adopted a scorched earth policy when it comes to Obama, giving the impression that if Hillary can't have the nomination then woe be Mr. Obama on the campaign trail in the fall.

It's a approach that should place the prospect of her joining the ticket as a VP nomination as a rather strange option. We're not sure how the Democrats could square the circle of the VP moving from bashing the prospective leader as not ready for Prime time, to preparing to hold his coat for him as he gets down to work, it's a gift to the Republicans that just baffles the mind.

A number of items popped up this weekend to suggest that Madam Clinton's run for the top prize may be near an unhappy end, what remains to be seen is if the Obama campaign will have been so severely damaged by the nastiness of late, that the task of taking on John McCain may have been lost before it even gets a chance to begin.

ABC News-- Bill Clinton's Message to Rural America

Newseek-- The Raison D'Etre Du Jour

Associated Press-- How Clinton’s campaign got on the ropes

Associated Press-- Obama takes lead in Super delegates

Associated Press-- Clinton goes from inevitable nominee to on the ropes

Time-- The Five Mistakes that Clinton made

Time-- Clinton's Faltering Case for Staying In

If the Clinton's need any more proof as to how much damage their approach is having on what would have been a pretty favourable legacy, they need look no further than that icon of American pop culture, Saturday Night Live.

Once you become the punchline for that program it would seem that you're gravitas in politics may be at an end, while the show is nowhere near as powerful as it was a few decades ago, when they are on their game they can still be a relevant indication of how America is thinking.

This past Saturday night, pretty well nailed on the head the consensus opinion about how out of control the Clinton campaign has spun, and how damaging it may eventually be to how the Clinton's are remembered.

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It's a video clip that had a short lifespan on the Wild West theatre of YouTube, which featured the clip heavily, before NBC called in a premptive strike and had it removed.
However, for those that wish to explore the evisceration of Candidate Clinton, the clip was posted on their own SNL home web site.

It was perhaps the perfect editorial for the times and more importantly seemed to capture the trend that this whole episode for the Democrats is going to end at.

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Comebacks it seems, may be a thing of the past when it comes to the Clinton eras.