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Maureen Dowd wonders whether the Clinton strategy is Hillary or Nobody:

Even some Clinton loyalists are wondering aloud if the win-at-all-costs strategy of Hillary and Bill — which continued Tuesday when Hillary tried to drag Rev. Wright back into the spotlight — is designed to rough up Obama so badly and leave the party so riven that Obama will lose in November to John McCain.

If McCain only served one term, Hillary would have one last shot. On Election Day in 2012, she’d be 65.

Why else would Hillary suggest that McCain would be a better commander in chief than Obama, and why else would Bill imply that Obama was less patriotic — and attended by more static — than McCain?

Sure. Another four years of war in Iraq, another four years of right-wing judicial appointments, another four years of inaction on health care, another four years of “millionaires first” tax cuts and ruinous deficits — all those are a small price to pay to get the Clintons back into the White House. Wreck the party! Wreck the country! Wreck the whole planet! Hillary must rule!

Hillary Clinton on Jeremiah Wright:

“I think given all we have heard and seen, he would not have been my pastor,” Clinton said in a news conference in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.

Well, of course he wouldn’t.

Wherever Hillary Clinton goes, whoever she meets, whatever she says or does, there is one thought always foremost in her mind: How will this play in Peoria?

If she picks her friends based on whether they can help her politically, don’t you suppose she would pick her pastor the same way?

Hey, that’s why she voted to authorize the War in Iraq. Who cared whether Saddam really had the WMDs? The war looked quick and easy, and it was popular as hell at the time, so there was no need to actually look at the National Intelligence Estimate. Gallup had all the necessary intelligence for Clinton’s decision.

When polls showed Americans turning against the war, so did she. If she wins the Democratic nomination, you can rest assured that she will continue to oppose the war for as long as the political winds are blowing that way — at least, until Election Day.