Bill Clinton is Hoping for a Blowout

And not in the Dems favor.  His lackluster campaigning seems to indicate to Byron York the Clinton would prefer that Obama suffer a huge loss and perhaps pave the way for Hillary:

To some Democrats, former President Bill Clinton is the party's campaigner-in-chief. And if there's any place a big gun is needed, it's here in Chicago, where Democrats, represented by the lackluster and scandal-plagued Alexi Giannoulias, are in grave danger of losing a Senate seat to Republican Rep. Mark Kirk. And not just any Senate seat -- at stake is the seat formerly occupied by Barack Obama himself, a trophy Democrats would hate to lose. So on Tuesday, with the hours until Election Day ebbing away, the campaigner-in-chief came to the rescue.

The problem was, it wasn't entirely clear how much Clinton really wanted to help Democrats, and especially Obama, win next week's elections. In the course of a one-hour speech, Clinton, whose wife lost a bitter nomination battle to Obama just two years ago and might still be considering another run for the White House, offered faint praise for the current president and a steady stream of criticism for Democrats, who he said have failed to communicate their message to the voters. If Clinton, who also seemed deeply concerned with defending his own record as president, had simply wanted to fire up the troubled party faithful here, he could have delivered a rousing defense of Obama and his party. Instead, his message was at best mixed, and at the end a listener could not be entirely sure whether Clinton truly believes Democrats deserve to win in November.

You can read the rest of it here.

I'm still going with my prediction that Hillary, who has conveniently headed out of the country through Election Day, will be leaving her position in early 2011 to begin a primary challenge to Obama.