Interesting. I noticed it emerged this morning that Billary has made three loans to her operation in the past 30 days, of considerable amounts, more than $6.4 million, which combined with her subsequent individual loans, add up to at least $11.4 million she’s donated to her campaign since February.

Over on Yes-We-Can hill, BO is still now emerging as the clear nominee, with a total of 100 delegates won in the past week since the victory in North Carolina and the narrow loss in Indiana, leaving him just 169 votes away from victory.

It irritates me that the Clintonites seem happy to overlook that this is a campaign that has been funded on the whole from personal donations, with the change-we-can-believe-in sermon gaining payments from 1.5 odd million people.

Clinton’s campaign seems narrow and stretched. Why? Because it is. She may claim to be the only candidate capable of beating McCain, but she’s becoming more Vice-Presidential by the day. Barack has already won more votes, more delegates, and more than twice as many states as Senator Clinton, whose path to the nomination has grown extremely thin. But these loans show that her crusade will continue to contest the remaining primaries robustly.

There are only six contests remaining on the Democratic primary calendar and only 217 pledged delegates left to be awarded. There are 253 remaining undeclared superdelegates. The Clinton campaign expects to trail by more than 100 pledged delegates and will then ask the superdelegates to upend the resolve of the party supports on the ground.

Hillary will likely stay in the race and go to the convention where she still has a chance with this crooked DNC Superdelegate system. Superdelegates are all well and good, but what of the millions of people on the ground who have been provoked and motivated by Obama’s campaign? This whole system is unfair and unjust. It gives even more power to people to be king makers. There should only be delegates and they should be awarded proportionate to the vote counts in each state.

It just isn’t fair. If the super delegates give the nomination to Hillary when Obama has the popular vote, are they truly representative of the democratic process? If she is clearly lacking in groundswell support, she does not deserve the nomination. If this should happen, this will not sit well with the newly enlightened Obama-ites. Many of his supporters will not vote come November, which would be a seismic electoral disaster, especially given that Obama has managed to mobilise young voters and previously disenfranchised societal groups like no candidate before. Obama has emerged as a new voice, a viable leader for the Democrats, succeeding where rhetoric from Nancy Pelosi and the like have failed. Clinton has demonstrated an extraordinary will to win, and a refusal to quit when she was losing primary after caucus after primary. Her campaign is now arguably at the stage where it is dependent on miracles like the surfacing of a new, and worse, Jeremiah Wright controversy. Ultimately her continued presence in the campaign will only damage the party further.

She’s moving full stream ahead alright. Away from the nomination.

I’ll leave you with this, a quote from Bill Clinton in 2004:

“If one candidate’s trying to scare you and the other one’s trying to get you to think, if one candidate’s appealing to your fears and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.”

PS - Watch this: McCain threatens to walk off the show when Jon Stewart presses him on whether Bush is more of a liability for him than Rev. Wright is for Obama. Classic.