Senator Hillary Clinton recently answered my email, when I asked her to reflect on what went wrong with her campaign.
The email was titled simply: ``Swan Song''

Dear Bill,

Sexist press coverage killed me, no doubt about it. Would anyone have criticized the Obama cackle?

Whitewater was behind me; the White House was in front of me, white voters were with me, Rev. Wright fell from the heavens, but time waits only for men, just when I was getting back on my feet, the clock ran out.

Annie Oakley was my hero, an American sharpshooter, who once shot the cigarette out of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany’s mouth. I wanted to do the same to Barack before he kicked the habit and switched to nicorette gum. Where did I go wrong? What would "Little Sure Shot’’ have done to clean Obama’s clock?

North Carolina, it turns out, was my fatal blow. if I had just shut out my opponent by winning both Indiana and the Tar Heel state, I might not be here emailing you and wallowing in my Crown Royal whiskey and chasing it with a beer.

Suspending my campaign was the worst thing that happened to me since I proposed suspending the gasoline tax.

Obama had the cash, I had the debt. I need to write another book to get out of this mess.

Next time I run for president (yes, I’ll be back) I’ll demand the presidential primary season begin in West Virginia not Iowa.

George W. is the one who did me in. Isn’t that the kicker? If I had only said nay instead of yea to authorizing the war in Iraq, I would have been spending this weekend pondering who would be my running mate.

    Regards!
    HRC

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Bill Lucey
billlucey@bellsouth.net