With 21 months until polling in the US presidential elections, and a full field of runners declared, the flaws of the main-feature Democrat candidates are becoming ever more apparent.
Even the East Coast liberal establishment is finding Mrs Clinton's effort to appear instinctive, irksome; her 'I'll-have-it both- ways' stand on Iraq, her 'Let the conversation begin!' rhetoric, the 'I'm-a-mom- too' suburban populism - all of it is grating.
In the hyper-speed of reaction and counter-reaction, Barack Obama, just weeks after he was fetchingly pictured in swimming trunks in People magazine, has been smacked by the racial reality of America.
He may be Caucasian enough for white voters to accept as African-American, but he's too white for African-Americans to accept as black. He is not, they say, of the black 
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