I was wondering why Clinton made such back strategic decisions. Time has an article out, explaining why. Apparently she didn't understand the rules:

Clinton picked people for her team primarily for their loyalty to her,instead of their mastery of the game. That became abundantly clear in a strategy session last year, according to two people who were there. As aides looked over the campaign calendar, chief strategist Mark Penn confidently predicted that an early win in California would put her over the top because she would pick up all the state's 370 delegates.It sounded smart, but as every high school civics student now knows,Penn was wrong: Democrats, unlike the Republicans, apportion their delegates according to vote totals, rather than allowing any state to award them winner-take-all. Sitting nearby, veteran Democratic insider Harold M. Ickes, who had helped write those rules, was horrified — and let Penn know it. "How can it possibly be," Ickes asked, "that the much vaunted chief strategist doesn't understand proportional allocation?"And yet the strategy remained the same, with the campaign making its bet on big-state victories. Even now, it can seem as if they don't get it. Both Bill and Hillary have noted plaintively that if Democrats had the same winner-take-all rules as Republicans, she'd be the nominee.

This scares me more than anything I've seen about a potential Clinton presidency. She was given "facts" that were clearly wrong, facts that any random blogger who studied this race knew were wrong, and didn't bother to double check. If she couldn't get the facts about California not being winner take all correctly, if she couldn't understand the not very complicated Texas system, how will she cope with the much more complicated problems that a president would have to deal with? I suppose she could grow in office but I can't understand how someone could get that fact wrong and then not be immediately fired when it became obvious how large the mistake was. Pennie, you're doing a heck of a job.

Current Music: Heavenly - Wish Me Gone

Geez, tonight was our first softball game and we gave up 20+ runs before getting an out. Ugly. Lots of dropped popups and ground balls that just were missed, and the 15-20 incredibly hard hit balls. To add injury to insult, I took a line drive off of my arm
pit.

It got better after that horrid start but still.


On the other hand, there was a beautiful dusk tonight on my drive home. I took the viaduct and there was a ferry coming across the Sound and it felt all peaceful. Hopefully the Tsunami will improve soon. Right now though, I'm icing my arm.

Stats: 2-3 2 R. My second hit was very hard so I'm happy with that. We didn't have an ump so no walks or K's.