Because, while speaking to California donors about how some people vote in PA after 25 years of dissilusionment, Sen. Obama said "cling to guns and religion", instead of "cling to issues like guns and religion", which was obvious given the context that he was talking about voting patterns, Sen. Clinton and Sen. McCain are trying to paint him into a corner based on a mis-speak.

Set aside the comparison with the Tuzla mis-speak.

His record and oppinions are clear.  He was clearly not being condescending.  Yet his words snuck out of a private fundraiser get clipped and truncated and twisted into a ridiculous attack.

See the 2004 interview here, he talks about votting on hot-button issues starting at minute 11:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJut4-dHuV8

His book, "The Audacity of Hope", has a whole chapter on Values.

I'm sure Sen. Clinton is aware of all of that, yet she's bent on the personal destruction of Sen. Obama as a way to get the nomination.  Any
other fellow democrat, in any other primary, would have defended his competitor against the acusation of the opposing party.  But Sen.
Clinton is instead circulating right-wing talking points.

Of course, hopefully we won't hear anything from former Pres. Clinton on this, because he pretty much said the same thing as Sen. Obama, arguably in a more artful way.

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/04/december-2007-b.html

And painting Sen. Obama as the 'less american candidate' is not helping either.

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/04/hillary-clint-5.html

If Sen. Clinton is trying to win the Dem nomination as the candidate of the gun-toting church-going hot-button-issue voters, she might have another thing coming.  She might need another drink.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/clinton-takes-a.html

I caught wind of the NYT piece that's going to run in the Sunday paper chastising Chris Matthews over his Obama fever and general disdain for women, among other things.

The Aria of Chirs Matthews

So I figured I'd try to find out what other things this author has written, and lo and behold, this piece published February 2nd of this year:

Clinton's Gradual Education on the Race Issue

The piece goes in depth looking at Hillary's evolving relationship with race issues, from her father's racially tinged language over dinner table, to her friendship with a "Negro" colleague at Wellesley, to her attending a "black power" meeting and subsequent disillusionment with their "extreme attitude towards civil disobedience", to her time in Arkansas and working for the Children's Defense Fund.

It's a good piece, but it brought me back to a simple question that I've been hanging on:

Why has Hillary still not come up with a take, or at least a comment, on Barack's "Perfecting the Union" speech? 

"I haven't heard it but I'm glad he gave it" doesn't do it for me. 

Does anybody think she actually listened to it?