Judging by her campaign’s latest line of attack, Hillary Clinton really does have reason to worry.

During a conference call with reporters on Monday afternoon, Clinton campaign Communications Director Howard Wolfson argued that much of his boss’ plummeting presidential fortunes could be attributed to an unfriendly media.

“I think it is true that every time the Obama campaign…has attacked Sen. Clinton in the worst kind of personal ways, - attacked her veracity, attacked her credibility, said that she would say or do anything to get elected - the press has largely applauded him,” he said.

Cry me a river.

Wait, Clinton already did that in New Hampshire, where she teared up describing how “hard” it was to run for president.

I can accept that. From what little I know of it, it is hard to run for president. But I also know that it’s a lot easier to run for president when your husband is a former, all-star Democratic president himself, when you yourself are a nationally-recognized senator of one of the most influential states in the Union, when you’re backed by an already established, national network of consultants and, most importantly, wealthy contributors and when you just may happen to be the most ambitious, most determined, and most pragmatic politician on the national scene…

So, yes, Hillary. It is to run for president. But, please, don’t tell me that you’re somehow disadvantaged by any sort of establishment when you yourself really are the establishment. Telling us otherwise is somewhat akin to Betsy DeVos calling Michael Moore an elitist while wearing a string of pearls…

There’s a lot I like about Hillary Clinton. I’ll even acknowledge supporting her prior to realizing that my true preference, Senator Obama, had a legitimate shot at winning this thing. But Clinton - I believe Senator Clinton to be one of the most capable minds in politics. I believe she is compassionate, I believe she is a tireless worker, and I believe she is destined for things far greater than what she has already achieved.

Yet beginning with her continuing refusal to acknowledge her honest mistake in voting to authorize the Iraq war in 2003, I must question Senator Clinton’s respect for the intelligence of the American public. How, really, is it possible to call the war as it currently stands a failure, and to strongly call for a withdrawal of troops without acknowledging one’s own, retrospective mistake in voting for it?

That’s insulting.

To blame a disastrous, 11-state tailspin on something other than inexplicable behavior such as this?

That’s disingenuous, Senator Clinton, and now you’ll just have to wait your turn…along with the boys and girls you helped send to Iraq.