The Australian election came and went in about six weeks. Rudd took office the next day. It's over. In America, they're still duking it out over an election a year away.

The latest squabble is between Clinton and Obama -  who's health care plan is better? Pardon me, I'm now just a curious outsider - but as it turns out I can still vote. 

Hillary, you need Barack. Whether you like it or not, he's your vice president. Deal with it - or get out of the race. You can't win without him.

In any event, you'll never get to battle Republicans if you're stuck in the mud fighting your own party.  If you want to differentiate yourself from other candidates, the best way is to go for the jugular of the other party - not your own. 

Screw health care. Didn't you learn that when your hubby was the president? Nobody wants your health care initiative. They didn't want it then, they don't want it now. You aren't strong enough (today) to fight the health care lobby. It's the economy, stupid. It's the war, stupid. Health care? It's just stupid, stupid. Pardon me Hillary - because this is sexist, but you just don't have the balls to socialize the American medical system. It's a nasty fight that will probably destroy whatever president tries to pull it off. Save it for another day, like a second term - if you get that far. That's a good time to go down swinging. The way things are going, you'll never get the first term.