The new liberated Hillary [View All]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/01/07/new_hampshire_dems/

Maybe it was the nothing-left-to-lose liberation that comes with daunting poll numbers. Two New Hampshire surveys released Sunday (CNN/WMUR and USA Today/Gallup) both showed Obama with a double-digit lead over Clinton in Tuesday's primary. But Clinton seemed more relaxed and playful during the press conference than at almost any other time in the campaign. When a reporter asked obtusely whether there was any religious significance to a cross on her bracelet, she cracked, "Talk about the secular press." Then Chris Matthews, the host of MSNBC's "Hardball," posed a question on Iraq, which morphed into a plea for her to come on his show. Clinton's laughing response: "I never know what to do with men who are obsessed with me."