Politics ’08, and the Good Cop – Bad Cop

It’s too challenging to hear further banter on “Bill and Hill” from the media. Everyone alludes to it, but no one will summarize it for what it is, a consistent strategic ploy by the Clinton’s.

This has happened too many times for Clinton’s campaign to pretend that it’s not a strategy. For example, there was the campaign manager in New Hampshire, whom noted Obama’s admission of drug experimentation as a kid, later “fired.” Then, there was the BET mogul again noting something, only to later apologize. Furthermore, there was Clinton’s Jesse Jackson reference following South Carolina.

Of course, Clinton’s campaign officially decries such acts or statements, but one can’t help except to think that this is not a good cop – bad cop strategy with the voters. Clinton’s supporters, including former President Clinton, are sent out to say things to keep Obama on the defensive. It’s down and dirty politics written about by Machiavelli, practiced by Morris and Rove.

Hearing NOW come to the offensive towards Ted Kennedy for endorsing Obama only serves to further make Hillary less attractive as a candidate to the majority of Americans. I feel objective in saying that, as I am for good components of gender equality; however, I feel their tactics are too strong and extreme. In short, it has nothing to do with Hillary being a woman; it’s that, as a person, she is disdainful. “Here comes the fun part,” or whatever it was she said concerning going on the offensive.

At the end of the day, or at the end of this next week, we’ll have a pretty good idea how things will shape up come this August. Edwards dropping out today, along with Giuliani, with McCain’s win in Florida and Huckabee’s support, this race is shaping up to be a McCain vs. the Democrat. As I have said before, Clinton is too polarizing and McCain is to moderate for the majority of Americans to not keep the GOP in the White House in that race. If the Democrats want to win against McCain, they need to insert Obama. I said this a few weeks ago. I will say it again and again, ultimately, if it goes the other way, it likely to go badly.

I don't dislike McCain, but for fear of the last eight years of Bush, Cheney, Lott, DeLay, Abramoff, and dozens of others that don't practice what they preach, we need to give them Dems a shot again.

Case in Point, if you haven't been to this website yet, please look. They do too good a job for me to try to reproduce, but it's to hard not to cite and cite their work.

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