Today is primary day in Maryland. As a registered republican, I’m sitting this one out. But if you’re a democrat and your candidate is Hillary Clinton, you’re backing a losing horse in this state. Yesterday, Barack Obama gave a speech to 20,000 people at the University of MD and another 10,000 at the Baltimore Arena (where, coincidentally, I was last week to see Finding Nemo on Ice). People waited outside in the cold and in their seats for hours just to listen to him and to catch a glimpse and maybe get a handshake.

Hillary also came to town, where she toured a plant that makes hybrid transmissions and had a sit-down with a dozen or so plant employees. The difference in their appearances is striking. To wit:

Here you have Hillary, the O’Governor, Lt. Gov, our lesbo midget shrew of a U.S. Senator and some plant guy looking dour and serious as Hillary gets a carefully orchestrated tour that looks like it’s no fun for anyone involved…

…While Obama speaks in front of thousands and everyone looks like they wouldn’t want to be anywhere else at that moment.

I’m not sold on Obama. The word “change” isn’t enough for me. He’s promising everything to everyone without any specific ideas or plans on how to do anything just like every other politician who ever walked the earth. His voting record isn’t all that different from Hillary’s either. And, truthfully, if he wasn’t black and if he wasn’t able to speak like Martin Luther King without the southern accent he wouldn’t have ever been taken seriously as presidential material. But those who are easily led by looks and rhetoric are completely sold on him — in Maryland, at least — and if it’s like this in other places then Hillary is in deep, deep trouble.

Though for as power hungry and polarizing and insincere as she is, I don’t think her problems could be happening to a nicer guy. She did think the Oval Office was hers for the taking so I’m glad to see her get beat back some.

And she’s definitely been pimping Chelsea out. Let’s call a spade a spade. Or a trick a trick.