I am disappointed in Hillary’s poor performance in Iowa.

I was truly wishing, hoping, praying for more, perhaps a neck and neck tie with Obama, or a close second — but a poor third troubles me.

I believe the results of the Iowa caucuses, albeit the first of the primaries, presented doubts about her electability as the Democratic nominee.

They saw Clinton for what she is and how Peggy Noonan, the Wall Street Journal Opinion columnist, described her in February 07 article as an individual who, “has never gone after a fellow Democrat quite the way she’s going after Mr. Obama, and it’s an indication of how threatened she is not only by his candidacy but, one suspects, his freshness. He makes her look like yesterday. He makes her look like the old slash-and-burn.”

Perhaps this is what Iowainans saw; perhaps this is what the nation will see if she gets the nomination. For after all it needs to play in Middle America to play across the nation.

Bill, Hillary’s spinmeister, is now calling her the ‘comeback kid’ relating everything she is doing to what he aaccomplished the first time he ran for the White House.

Bill Clinton boasts, with no small ego, that he was the only president to loose Iowa and New Hampshire and become President of the United States, implying that his wife could very well do the same.

But there is one big difference, as Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Lloyd Benson said, as he scored in a classic debate line with Vice President Dan Quayle, “Senator, your no Jack Kennedy,” and it could very well be said to Hillary, “Senator, your no Bill Clinton.”

And so as Clinton campaigns as the underdog in New Hampshire she is recalibrating her message. However, she is still playing the ’experience’ card as recently as last night in the Democratic debates — which has been severely challenged — while Obama continues to stress ‘change.’

However, it may very well be her image of representing ‘yesterday’ while Obama’s image represents ‘freshness.’ that is doing her in.

The words sound simple, but they certainly resonated in Iowa.

I hope Bill is right in calling her the ‘comeback kid’, for I don’t like Obama’s policies anymore than I like Hillary’s, but I do believe a Republican can beat Clinton if she is the nominee.