Hillary hits a roadblock but not near Bristol

So the first caucus circus - and, as one chat show host put it, the one day in the year people care what Iowa thinks - is over. I had a feeling this morning that Barrack Obama would triumph though it was a shock to find that Hillary Clinton had spun out to third. Mind you, John Edwards will regard second place as the bare minimum to be accrued from spending the past year living and canvassing in Iowa. It will be interesting to see if his momentum holds up. I also suspected that Mike Huckabee's folksy style woul lead the Baptist preacher to victory in Iowa. His message of less taxes, more guns, more Chuck Norris was simple and effective and was more than a match for his better funded rivals. From my point of view, it would be great to see either a black man or a woman in the White House, but Hillary and Barrack probably won't be on the same ticket, since that would push too many liberal hot buttons as to prove incendiary to soft Republicans, even though it would be the best thing for the USA in my opinion.

Hillary may have got stopped in Iowa, but at least there wasn't an altercation with the police as there was with a motorist driving too slow on the motorway near Bristol. Tootling along at 10mph and straddling the dual carriageway, before being escorted onto the hard shoulder by police cars, saw the unfortunate woman served with a seven day driving ban and forced to take a new test. I thought it interesting the BBC interviewed her behind the wheel of her stationary car. It reminds me of the OAP who was driving at 20mph on the motorway and, when refusing to heed police warnings to pull over, was faced with a police blockade. His response - to mount the grassy verge to try and evade them! It didn't work and how on earth did he think it would. At least Hillary isn't caught up in such absurdity.