Letters to the Editor
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Obamaniacs Don't Know What Negative Is
Obamaniacs who think Hillary has been negative have no idea what they're in for from the Republicans. The Clinton campaign has been effectively blocked from saying anything that anyone anywhere can construe as racist, and they have paid a price in attacks from Obama's campaign and the media whenever they have crossed that ill-defined line. Accordingly, Hillary has been totally careful about the Rev. Wright issue and has said very little about it.
The Republicans will not be so constrained. And it won't be McCain who goes on the attack, it will be surrogates and the independent swift-boaters. Obama's campaign will attack these things as racist, but it won't matter. People will listen to their messages of Obama's radicalism, elitism, fraternization with radical ministers, terrorists, etc.
If you think this won't happen, consider this: a bunch of guys with a serious attitude problem with Kerry in 2004 put together the swiftboat effort. They hated Kerry for whatever reasons. Don't you think that a radical, elitist left-wing inexperienced smooth talker is going to generate the same kind of opposition, and then some? There are people out there who think Obama is a Manchurian Candidate, ready to cave on Israel, ready to let the mad Iranian dictator get the bomb, ready to do all kinds of things seriously harmful to patriotic Americans. Obama may be better able to fight back against this kind of thing than Kerry was, but it will damage him severely -- perhaps enough to defeat him.
Of course, you could nominate Hillary . . .