Some thoughts while watching Hillary Clinton give her victory speech in Ohio on this mini-Super Tuesday:

- I admire her, I really do. I think she’s a crazy hard worker and has insane discipline; I can’t imagine what she has to go through every day on this campaign and still have the energy to do what she has to do, regardless of how canned and predictable she sounds.

- Her claim that her ability to win the big battleground states makes her the sensible choice for the Democratic nomination is so stupid and annoying. Are we supposed to believe that if Obama is the nominee, then a huge number of voters are going to sit out the election in protest? Yes, she won California and New York, but does anyone really think that if she isn’t the nominee that John McCain will win those states? Give me a break, stop speaking down to all of us (although her supporters seem to love it).

- Just listened to her go through all her victories, and there she goes, throwing Florida in again (was too annoyed to pay attention to whether she threw in Michigan as well). Last I checked, those were bullshit elections. Anyone want to take me up on the bet that if she had a commanding lead right now we wouldn’t be hearing anyone talk about the disenfranchisement of Michigan and Florida voters?

- So there it is, she just dropped the “phone ringing at 3 a.m. in the White House” line. If she ever ends up picking up the phone at the White House I hope it’s security asking her to leave since visitors aren’t supposed to be in the Oval Office. More mature standpoint: I would hope to think that my president is going to surround him or herself with capable, brilliant, and pragmatic experts and leaders so that in the event the phone rings at 3 a.m. in the morning, we are going to have those same people helping the president make the right decision. And as of now, I like Obama’s world outlook as well as his team.

- “Speeches versus solutions”. This refrain is getting really tiresome. “Tested versus inexperienced” is also getting really old. Obama should dust off his old line about how Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld were oozing experience out of all holes, and look where it got us. It’s a new world out there that requires a new way of thinking and doing things. Being “tested” in the ways of the old world, in my view, is not something that is going to move the U.S. further ahead.

- It’s going to be seven more weeks until Pennsylvania. I am really hoping that fantasy baseball will distract me in the meantime. This campaign is starting to wear on me, since it means seven more weeks of more Clinton negativity and these same ol’ same ol’ attacks and digs and whines. All the while, people my age are actually getting mobilized and energized and actually willing to make trade-offs in their lives for the sense of greater accomplishment. All of this is because of Obama. It makes me sad to think that all of this can get squashed because of HRC’s ruthlessness.