Except for one thing

Mark Steyn, who has been the world's smartest Canadian ever since LAGuy pledged his fealty to the Third Amendment, says the Clintons have lost their magic, and are now the tragedy of the old dog: "Few sights are more forlorn than an enforcer who can no longer enforce."

Not quite.

There is no doubt that the Democrat Party is finally having the fight it should have had a decade or a decade and a half ago, which is to say, a fight to expel the Clintons. Pelosi, Leahy, Got-Monica-a-job-Richardson are proof enough. Even a better indicator is our local split here in O-hi: Gov. Ted Strickland is a Clinton playback machine and early endorser, no surprise a-tal, but up and comer Rich Cordray is an Obama backer, which is a quite significant fact.

Of course, it's important to keep in mind that, even if the forces of good prevail, they will only have gotten themselves to the point that they are lying sacks of guano whose main privilege is the right to be first against the wall--just like their brethren, the Republicans.

But of even more importance is the fact that there is no reason to think, yet, that Obama is the better player in this Civil War. He might be; we'll have to see how many more Leahys and Cordrays he can put into play. My money, however, is still on the Clintons. The one thing you can say for sure about them is that they are not empty suits. Despite QG's charming naivete, Obama thus far is.