Let me start by saying that I am not at all one of those Democrats who think that it was consumer advocate Ralph Nader who gave us the last eight years of George W. Bush. While many in the Democratic Party may hold that opinion and truly believe that Nader is just this side of a complete a##hole for running for president in 2000, I do not share that opinion.

I always thought that if Gore had just won his home state of Tennessee. Or won President Clinton's home state of Arkansas. Or won West Virginia, a state that no Democratic presidential nominee had lost since...well look it on Wikipedia yourself and see. You get my point.

This year Mr. Nader has announced yet again his decision to run for president. No one in the Democratic Party seems to be happy about it. Senator Clinton said of Nader,

"...very unfortunate...I remember when he ran before. It didn't turn out very well for anybody -- especially our country."

"He thought that there was no difference between Al Gore and George Bush and, eight years later, I think people realize that Ralph did not know what he was talking about".

There is even a guy [Jerry Peace Activist Rubin] fasting until Nader pulls out from the race. Now that's commitment.

But there is a time and place to settle for once and for all, the issue of Ralph Nader running for president, ....but without hurting his feelings. After all, Nader has done a great deal for us, and we owe him lots of gratitude.

Nader has given us clean water, clear air, safer cars----just to name a few things.

So, the other day I am reading about China's environmental problems. Like their air pollution: "... Beijing and its neighboring north-east Chinese provinces have the planet's worst levels of nitrogen dioxide, which can cause fatal damage to the lungs...An explosive increase in car ownership is blamed for a sharp rise in unhealthy emissions."

Or their water pollution: "One of China's most critical environmental problems is water pollution; 300 million people lack access to clean drinking water; over 70 percent of lakes and rivers are polluted; and according to an article in the Wall Street Journal, "factories and cities dump some 40 to 60 billion tons of wastewater and sewage into lakes and rivers each year."

So this gets me thinking, here's how to kill to birds with one stone: Let's send Ralph Nader to China. They've got pollution problems; we've got the guy with the track record to fix them. I mean, who better than Nader?

He's the guy to get Hu Jintao to help out. To get the Communist Party to clean up the place. To get Beijeng beautiful. China has 1.3 billion people. Nader has got to be inspired by a country that polluted and that big. He'd be up for the challenge. And in the mix, he's out of the country for the duration of 2008 election.

So, according to FlyChina.com, a round trip airfare between Nader's hometown of Washington, DC and Beijing is a paltry $1138. That's just 8,094.72 Chinese Yuan.

So, as good a Democrat, I am donating the first Yuan. Any other Democrats want to chip in with me?

Today, after waiting for more than nine days, Senator Clinton was awarded the win in New Mexico, by a nanometer-slice of a femtometre of a hair. She won 48.8 percent of the total vote to Senator Obama's 47.6 percent; it was a much needed win after for her after losing eight states in a row. Maybe now she's got Hill-Mentum.

Mrs. Clinton has taken what should have been an exciting ground-breaking campaign based on a foundation of true change, and has come off as one of the `good ole boys'. She has made her campaign more about her experience of eight years in the White House, rather than being the inspirational leader she could have become.

She has stated that she will be ready to lead from Day One; something she has asserted over and over again. But on Day One of the War in Iraq, she got that wrong.

She has asserted that she has been tested and vetted, and she has withstood the criticism. But at the end of the day, who wants a candidate who has been criticized quite that much? Obama has been in the sights of the most well-oiled political machine on either side of the aisle, and his still on his feet punching hard.

The Clinton political operative machine is the only one on the Democratic side to win back to back presidential campaigns for the same candidate since Roosevelt. They know their stuff. Don't you think if they had something on Obama to derail his campaign, they'd have used it already? After all, what are they waiting for? Problem for them is, they have nothing.

I do not think that the Clintons ever had in mind that they would be facing off against Obama at this late date. I think they were geared up to face off mano a mano against John Edwards, not Obama. However, they were too successful against Edwards too early.

They could never be ready for the kind of candidate Obama is. Obama is the one candidate that the Clintons would have the most trouble with one on one: Someone who can out `oratory' Hillary; Someone who can appear more of the `change' candidate than Hillary; and someone who generate the same kind of excitement that Bill Clinton did back in 1992. No matter how hard she tries, Hillary is not Bill.

But now, at least she does have Hill-Mentum. And that's regrettable for her.