From the WAPo and America blog comes this piece from Douglas Schoen who consulted for Bill Clinton and who is in the firm with Penn.
Hillary Clinton took an important step Monday toward winning the Democratic nomination by launching an ad targeting Barack Obama's recent comments about working-class voters clinging to "guns or religion." The ad is a marked change from her recent determination to use a positive message until the Democratic convention, but for Clinton to capture the nomination she needs to completely abandon her positive campaign and continue to hammer away at Obama
If there ever has been a doubt about Hillary destroying Obama , here it is in print.
I may be naive but to see this in print shocks me. Why would they let this travel all over the net and beyond? How can this help their cause?
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As the underdog, Clinton's positive message will not work unless she is able to undermine Obama's candidacy. The Illinois senator's success has been largely built upon his claims that he is a unifier who can work above partisan politics, that he will bring change to our government and that he will bring a new style of leadership to Washington. Without bringing a strong amount of skepticism to these claims, Clinton will not be able to make significant inroads in Obama's lead and cannot persuade the superdelegates to go against the will of the American people.
why wont our party stop this kind of thing?
Although voters and the media look favorably upon a positive campaign message, and Clinton is acutely conscious that too much negativity and too many personal attacks will hurt her party in November, a positive message is simply not enough to alter the race at this point. It is too late for Clinton to wait for Obama to make another mistake. She must seize the opportunity that Obama's self-acknowledged mistakes last week presented to her campaign; it is almost certainly her last chance.
I feel that Obama is well on his way to winning, A few days ago, I was anxious and concerned that she may have gotten a wedge in but I have to remember to trust this man. He is truly a leader.
But this piece really reveals a lot and I wonder what is to come.