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Political ambition for Hillary Clinton comes at a price. Presidential campaigns are chock-full of strategies, media events and never ending details..and the Devil is in the Details, or more accurately, staring over Hillary's left shoulders in Ohio.  And there may be hell to pay, in more ways than one.

Hillary Clinton appeared before an excited throng at my old high-school gym in St. Clairsville , Ohio, two days ago. The crowd, the ubiquitous secret-service presence, and the press, provided for a rarified air to the old gymnasium where I once did wind sprints in physical education classes and hopeful teenage gladiators pounded the hardwood. It was a bit heady and eerily intoxicating to realize that and the evil one shared the same stage as I, only 30 years prior.

 

Yet there, on the wall, behind the presidential wannabe, was the high-school mascot, the Devil, red and resplendent in all his fiery glory, grinning down as if he were the candidate's political running-mate, about to whip down and take a bite out of the masses cowering on the bleachers.
The advance people obviously forgot to tarp up the very visible and looming 10 foot- wide red devil mascot painted on the white walls of the high school gymnasium, and the campaign managers were mad as hell.

It was the five-thousand pound elephant' in the room, yet, shockingly, no one on her advance team seemed to have noticed.  Amidst recent allegations and innuendo regarding the surfacing of a photograph of opponent Barack Obama in Muslim garb, one would think that the Clinton Campaign, particularly concerned about the senator's performance these last few days before the Ohio primary, would have taken special care to not place the senator in any negative light.

It certainly made for a wildly amusing and surreal backdrop, considering that the woman who wanted to be the leader of the free world was grandstanding beneath his lavishly nasty grin, in of all places, my home high-school gym.  The whole scenario couldn't have been better conjured up had it been only in my dreams after a night of heavy drinking and binging om pizza.

Within hours, the photo of Hillary and the Devil had been around the globe, placed on news blogs and major news sites.  Reuters picked it up, and so did the world.

It made for great news fodder and perhaps a perfect vignette for a shadowy Rod Serling,gravelry voice, cigarette in hand, offering some sage advice for politicians..."for as we all know, the devil is indeed in the details, and a few days ago, he proved the point in, of all places, the high-school gym, in St. Clairsville, Ohio ."