Hillary knows this is her one and only shot at the White House. She’ll wind up on the democrat’s scrap heap along with Kerry, Gore, etc if she can’t pull this off. Obama on the other hand has a chance in 2012 or 2016. Hillary is ticked off at uppity Obama who cut in line and is giving her the finger.
I buy everything you said except the above. Obama is the new, untested kid on the block. This campaign season will bring him into the open, warts and all. And people will not like what they see. Oh, I'm not talking about the Obama faithful. It's the rest of America. Rural America. Come 2012, should he lose either the nomination or the general, he'll have even less of a chance for a comeback than Clinton.
People may be ready for a Black President, but not of the Rev. Wright, William Ayers, Louis Farrakhan type.