February 21, 2008, 12:41PM
After all this time, Hillary has no idea who she is and clearly has no
idea who she is running against. She has never understood her own
credibility problems and the soft support of her base. Most of the
people voting for Hillary either want a third term for Bill or a woman
to hold the seat. It has very little to do with her personally and that
is why Obama is able to pull those folks away.
She is so uncomfortable in her own skin that everything she says comes
across as contrived and all of her attacks only make sense to the folks
that are already in her camp. You can't claim to be ready on day one when every week we see you try to reinvent your campaign. Obama is not running on speeches, he is
running on integrity. We see a person asking every American for their
vote. He has had to scratch a claw for every vote starting from zero.
We see a person that believes that our participation is required to
help change the country. Launching these silly attacks don't undermine
him, they just play into her negatives. The more negative she gets, the
stronger Obama will become (the same will be be true for McCain). Her
camp still does not understand Obama's attraction and because of this,
they insult those of us who have actually bothered to read his books
and papers to the point that we more than anything also embrace his
approach to solutions. I would bet that most of his supporters don't
even agree with him on 2/3's of the issues. We will continue to open
our wallets because we have chosen to believe that WE can change this
country.
The real question in this campaign is who do you trust to try to move
this country forward past its current state of pessimism and gridlock.
*If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result
of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every
victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the
enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.-Sun Tsu
