I'm not liking what I'm seeing from the Obama camp today. They seem to have taken the "veiled threat" approach that some of you were advocating on here. That kind of approach may work with the super-delegates but it won't work with the general populace.
Short term thinking has been Hillary's specialty this cycle. Obama's supposed to be the candidate that sees the long term, the macro trends. Securing the nomination by convincing voters/superdelegates that Hillary is worse than him won't do him any good in November. That argument won't work against Mccain. The only way to win, really win in the long term, is to prove that he is in fact better. He has to answer people's criticisms and show that he is deeper than people are giving him credit for (which I think he is).
This is a 3-man race now, no matter what the facts say. The media is going to cover it that way. The continual convergence of Hillary and Mccain talking points is not a setback, it's an opportunity. If he can refute Hillary now, he refutes McCain at the same time.
So let's hope there's more to his strategy going forward than attacking Clinton on tax returns. Let's hope he is prepared to bring out some Canadian surrogates and hit back on this NAFTA bs hard. Let's hope he presents an alternative strategy for the middle east to counter Mccain's. Let's hope he begins to tout a broader economic plan and finds new ways to recapture the optimism that was present after Iowa.
In short: he has the lead. He doesn't have to play her game. And if he wants to win, he shouldn't.