I was listening to On-Point yesterday morning and they were, of course, talking about the Iowa Caucuses taking place later in the day. Aside from host Tom Ashbrook making no bones about not liking John Edwards in the least, he kept asking the media friends he had on what happened to Hillary's "inevitability"?

Of course, the same people who unleashed the "inevitability" meme are the ones who have now launched the "what happened to Hillary's inevitability?" meme. Does the circularity of it strike anyone else as slightly cynical?

Never mind. They obviously need a new meme now. With Obama christened The Inevitable One in Iowa, my guess is that we'll be hearing a lot more about his corporate sponsors. Things like: "private-equity companies and hedge funds... rank high among his supporters. ... Goldman Sachs and Lehman Bros. are Obama's two biggest corporate sponsors." Obama is more vulnerable than his competition on this because his rhetoric is so much more righteous. 

The fact that he won Iowa (and spent Romneyesquely to do it) will make it that much harder for him to capture the contrarians in New Hampshire. 

What Iowa has shown is that this truly is a three-way race.  Nobody in the media wants to acknowledge Edwards, and that hasn't changed because he took second-place in Iowa, and it won't change no matter what happens in New Hampshire, because an Edwards candidacy doesn't fit The Narrative.  Elizabeth Edwards' lament that she could not turn her husband into a black woman was, unfortunately, spot-on.

My money is still on Hillary. If Obama persists, she'll get some of her Little Rock Mafia to pull a Tonya Harding on his ass. I can just hear Obama clutching his broken kneecaps crying "why me??" as Bubba flees the scene in a ninja suit.