Please, there’s a big difference in the race-baiting that she has been engaged in. Do you think Obama could get away telling Hillary that she won’t get elected in Nov. without the black vote? Do you see him making that condescending argument that she’s parroting?
And Obama only engaged in negativism when his campaign got hammered in PA. I find it ironic that people expect Obama to not defend himself when being attacked. Still his message has been consistently more above-board (feel free to disagree and then we can pull out some stats).
Frankly, Obama will have a tough time. He won’t get the blue collar Dems or the racist Asian immigrant Dem vote (like my mom).
That being said, in the long term (except for the SCOTUS issue), I think it’s better for the Dems to put up a historical candidate that will get blasted by the same old tired pro-war, anti-science, neo-cons. Then we’ll let McCain try to fix Bush’s mess(es). It’ll be amusing and kill the Republicans (a different party iteration) like Reconstruction.
Of course, the risks are the eviseration of privacy rights, probably expansion of fed powers (of course against the Constitution but “activist” judges are only called that if they’re liberal), more police powers, more attacks on the environment, more staffers “attending/escorting” NIH scientists, more non-scientists on NIH science boards, human embryonic cells being allowed to be thrown in the trash yet not used for science, a larger federal deficit, more bottom tier attorneys being placed at the DOJ, blah blah blah, you know the litany.
