Obama in April

It's bec0ming clearer and clearer that the choice for Democrats is no longer between Obama and Clinton.
The choice is between Obama in April and Obama in August.
Of the two, I think we'd do much better with Obama in April.
One of thereasons is that the negatve campaigning from the Clinton camp is hurting our candidate without helping Clinton. The Obama camp can retaliate with negative info about Clinton, but that won't help us in November. More after the jump.

Four years ago, Obama was asked about his opposition to the Iraq-War resolution. His opposition had been fierce at the time, but the Democratic nominees for president and vice president had voted for the resolution in the Senate. He equivocated.
That's what you do to protect your party's nominees. You don't go to a right-wing paper and tell them that you'd have left the church if you'd heard Jermiah wright's sermon. You don't praise the Republican nominee's greater expertise as commander in chief.
We need to concentrate our aim on John McCain. He's made several gaffe's with almost no response from the Democratic candidates.

Prolonging this isn't helping Hillary. The way it's being prolonged is hurting her.

If she wants to stay in just in case the Obama campaign implodes, she should take another tack:

The Democratic party needs a fighter as its candidate. Someone who'll tell you that John McCain talks against lobbyists and then has his campaign run by lobbyists.

Let her talk like that, and we'll wait as long as she wants.

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  by Frank Palmer on Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 08:30:18 AM PDT

•  How about Obama in May??

  I still think he needs to seal the deal with narrowing the gap in PA and winning NC big and IN in anyway possible. You need Hillary supporters to know in their own mind that it's over; forcing her out only creates hard feelings we don't need in the fall.

  Of course, if Obama pulls off a miracle win in PA, you'll get your wish.

  by fulcrum on Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 09:30:24 AM PDT

  •  the sooner, the better

    We have our state convention in Texas in June. We're outnumbered down here, and we can't spare a single Democrat to bad feelings generated over an already moribund race at the top of the ticket.

    We have down ticket races, dammit. We're trying to turn Texas back to the light, away from the dark side.

    by elmo on Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 10:02:49 AM PDT

•  Hard for Clinton to do that

  When her campaign is FUNDED by lobbyists!

  Obama had to distance himself from Wright but managed to condemn the sin without abandoning the sinner, which is the essence of Christian teaching. The recovery in his poll numbers shows he handled the problem very well.

  Every stupid thing McCain has said has been documented and recorded for later use when people are actually paying attention to the general election race.

  Barack will be fine. Hillary has to decide just how much she wants to tarnish her own reputation.

  by Jim in Chicago on Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 09:31:24 AM PDT

•  She can campaign as long as she wants

  if she can maintain some discipline and not tear down the Democrats by feeding into Republican memes.  But if she keeps going on as she has she's going to lose what dignity she has left.

  by Hope Despite All on Mon Mar 31, 2008 at 10:31:47 AM PDT

  •  Certainly

    Certainly, she could campaign positively.
    She could show her advantage WRT Obama by showing her superior attack skills against McCain.
    She can keep her campaign going until the convention.
    But her only hope now is for the Obama campaign to collapse. At that point, the superdelegates would step in, and do so rightly. trying to manufacture the collapse, as well as failing, destroys her reputation.

    by Frank Palmer on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 08:14:27 AM PDT