He wasn't right only about the Iraq war...

Obama was also right about the mortage crisis.  He saw it coming a long way off.

Meanwhile Clinton has been aiming some bombast at members of the Trinity United Church of Christ not to mention indulging in little hints of delegate poaching. Lovely.

Remember back when this was going to be a campaign of issues?  It seems to many of us that Clinton, in deciding (in desperation, it seems) to change the tone of the campaign, has done real damage to all of us but most notably to a Democratic party which needs all the help it can get. 

It's a mess.  And the growing anger at "the Clintons" is not easily dismissed.

Comments

[Dan]

Headline of the day.

[BetttyB]

Although I voted for Hillary in the primary, I have been ready to support Obama if he is the eventual nominee. I'm sorry to say that several of my friends here in SW MO will not support him.

All the younger progressive bloggers are for Obama and have nothing positive to say about Hillary. Do you think they are doing harm to the Dem. party because of this?

Obama carried only K.C., St. Louis and Columbia in the Missouri primary. I don't think he will carry MO without bringing the rural voters on board. Do you think he can win Texas?

I'm really just concerned that a Democrat be elected. The positions of Hillary and Obama are very similar. They both voted for Iraq war funding much to my dismay. Obama barely arrived in the Senate before he started running for Prez. Might as well get his dirty laundry out in the open now, so he can answer the hard questions without stuttering when the press start to go after him for real.

He's not without fault, neither is she, but either one will do if McCain is the alternative.

[Dan]

I agree, Betty. But attacks in the name of vetting have morphed into just plain attacks. Perhaps candidates and surrogates should be emphatically smacked down from here on out when they do stuff like that.

[PW]

I don't think there's anything like equivalence in how the candidates are behaving. This is posted a couple of days later when Hillary's "numbers" are reported to have dropped to a very low level and locally she's loosing support -- "too nasty!". Many of us find her to be a wholly unsupportable candidate, even against McCain. Her egotism, dubious integrity, and harshness are more than I can bear and that seems to be true of many others. I don't think young progressives should be faulted for dividing the party (if that's what's happening). The fault lies with the Clinton campaign at the moment (in SC) when it began to turn "racist" and negative. People were rightly disgusted. But I do agree a tight leash should be attached to all surrogates! And maybe one of those dog collars with spikes on it?

Betty -- I don't know how Obama would do in Texas in the general election, though maybe very well if the enthusiasm continues. We're in the middle of the "convention" process now and our area favors Obama 60-40. Republicans here like Obama as they did Howard Dean in '04. McCain has been making some serious gaffes. If that continues, who knows!