Sen. Hillary Clinton on Obama’s Presidential Campaign

Once again the RNC has decided to reach back into the earlier days of the primary season to try to sow more dissent among Democrats. It still amazes me that there are at least five RNC press releases that do not mention their candidate for every one that mentions McCain.

People have often wondered where the idea that the Democrat party is somehow damaged and divided after a long primary season where more people were engaged and more people paid attention to election issues than any other time in my voting life. The idea that more people paying attention to the issues at stake in this election is only bad for one party. The Republicans cannot truly fight Obama on the issues. He is painted as a liberal by the right wing pundits but only with superficial strokes of the brush.

You can see that both the RNC and conservative commentators stick to a few simplistic ideas like the idiotic one that Obama will sit down with terrorists without ‘preconditions’. This is a vague enough thing that it allows people who are frightened to fill in all kinds of horrible ideas about what would happen at those talks. If they get into the details of exactly what Obama has in mind, when hes been given the opportunity to speak and write about his foreign policy ideas in depth, this issue disappears along with most others.

When a man’s choice of church and the business practices of one campaign donor was really a reasonable basis on which to select a person to hold the most powerful elected position in the USA are totally lost and may as well just pack it all in now.

The fact is, Democratic party voters and activists are more engaged and more excited about November 4th than was the case in 2004 – and this scares the hell out of the RNC. Can anyone else remember a time when two candidates ran neck and neck through the entire primary season? Usually the candidate has the nomination well wrapped up soon after Super Tuesday. This year primary voters were a part of the process right through the very end.

The RNC spin machine wants to take all that energy that voters displayed in the primaries and corrupt it for their own benefit. This is why they spend so much effort talking about Obama and Clinton and so little talking about McCain. They will do anything they can to drain that energy away and make people honestly believe that the majority of Clinton supporters would consider McCain a decent choice in the light of Clinton’s loss.

The sad thing is that the Senator Clinton, and her campaign, have made things easy on the Republicans. In this digital age they have access to all kinds of material to work with to use Clinton as a foil to fence against Obama. Clinton is a far better speaker than is John McCain so it only makes sense that would use her words to debate Obama instead of their own candidates.

When you don’t care about context, thats an easy scheme to implement. This RNC press release came across my desk today and I wanted to share it.

I did a full capture so you can see the whole thing. In this one they reach way way back to a Clinton appearance on the Christian Broadcasting Network’s “The 700 Club” in late February at the peak of the primary season when both candidates were scrambling for delegates.