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The problem is whenever she brings up anything that you can guarantee - the Republicans will use - they try and make her look like the bad guy. She is just the messenger about electability.
Obama is more vulnerable to Republican attacks.
The attacks on Hillary and Bill are old news.
They have all been used before.
The attacks on Obama have only just begun.
The attacks on Obama are not old news.
They have not been tried before.
Barack is more vulnerable with swing voters because there are so many questions about him. Whereas people know that Bill's administration was one of the most socio-economically successful we've ever had - so they know Hillary knows what it takes to deliver.
Swing voters have different priorities than the media. Swing voters want someone they KNOW can deliver. Or, at least someone they KNOW.
It's just worth repeating because it's so so very true.
thanks for the tone of your message too. It's a refreshing change from the "tom paynes" bots.
However I have to take issue with your assessment of hte race-baiting in South Carolina. Obama denying he thought the Clinton's were racist and "distancing" himself for it is right up on par with intellectual honesty as the Bush WhiteHouse and Karl Rove "distancing" themselves from 527 attacks they've organized all over the maps (such as the infamous Swiftboat for Truth).
That Obama continued to deny involvement in the race-baiting which launched his early primary scucesses until the cherry-picked words memo his campaign used surfaced on the internet is particularly bothersome and it has been all too characteristic of his campaign.
It's stuff like this, this regular launching of the foulest attacks on Hillary and then pretending to be all doe-eyed while projecting their behavior on her (and then having to suffer through endless diatribes from rabid vulgarians like "tom payne" doing the same thing) has just been the biggest turnoff.
rassumsen notes "surge for Obama" and has the Penn election at three points for Bitchery.
I'm sure by now I don't even need to cite the author of such hatescreed a few posts back.
However, what's far more bothersome than this deranged idiot is that all of the 'bot supporters have sat silently for months silently while the same six or ten Obama campaigners have spread this crap all over the internet and message boards.
There is no one, and I mean no one, that has come even remotely close to making a racial equivlent against the Inexperienced Messiah.
Not once.
Just don't call yourselfs progressives, bots. Call your selves what you are: Hatemongering spoilers .
pyschopath.
Nobody cares about that drivel you're trying to pass off as logic.
You and the bots please:
1. sign in as ONE alias not nine.
2. Stop whining. Mrs. Clinton has had to fight the big money and competence of the rightwing smear machine while at the same time fight the psychotic unhinged litmus-test left.
Obama's had a pillow and a blanket and a lollipop up to now.It could'nt last but since the left has effectively done what they do best: snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, there's little question Obama will be shoved down our throats as nominee and lose to McCain in an electoral landslide.
Therefore the hard left should be happy and celebatory. They get to play on with more elitist superiorism and liberal handwringing for another eight years.
you and your nutty cohorts have threatened people all over the boards only second to your misogynist slurs and race-baiting.
You're truly scum all over.
Because the leftwing of the party is once again insisting on an unviable candidate that the majority of the electorate finds unappealing and then as usual, blaming it on everyone but themselves.
have you seen this? the same groups are getting ready to go with weather underground GOP attacks on Obama....registering domain names etc.
How can this surprise you, Delores? Have you been dead for the past 20 years while Democrats have been swiftboated and pilloaried to death by the MSM and the right and even most nauseatingly of all from many church groups?
While you didn't participate in it, you were all too happy to watch the bot crowd do the right's work for them on Hillary.
The reason it hasn't sunk her like you'd all hoped is exactly what I told you months ago. Rove was involved in promoting Obama's rise to stardom as a means of stopping HRC who , had she had a unified Democratic base behind her, would have been unstoppable. (she picks up the elderly vote, working class, hispanics and blacks until Obama started racebaiting) AND the swing voters. (Now she's so crippled from having to fight the left and the right that I just don't know but that's a side issue for now)
The experienced grownup persons on the thread told you right from the beginning. The reason the GOP wanted Obama so bad was becuase they KNEW they could bring his favorability down to the floor whereas they already had done whatever they could do to Hillary's long ago and it was still plenty high to beat them.