<i>It will be an all out brawl!</i>
That's what a Hillary supporter is quoted as saying, on the front page of TPM.
Think about that. The idea of an "all out brawl" between Obama supporters and Hillary supporters is considered to be a <i>good</i> thing by Hillary supporters. 
<i>The superdelegates [were created] to make the educated decision that voters sometimes can't.</i>
Think about that.  From the perspective of a Hillary supporter, mere voters can't be trusted to make good decisions.  Oh, no.  The elite superdelegates sometimes have to step in and save the poor, ignorant voters from themselves.
This is the sort of point of view needed to be a Hillary supporter these days: a preference for divisiveness, and a disdain for the preferences of mere voters.  
(Trying this again from a different browser to see if that fixes the HTML problems.  Sorry for the double post.)

<i>It will be an all out brawl!</i>
That's what a Hillary supporter is quoted as saying, on the front page of TPM.
Think about that. The idea of an "all out brawl" between Obama supporters and Hillary supporters is considered to be a <i>good</i> thing by Hillary supporters.
<i>The superdelegates [were created] to make the educated decision that voters sometimes can't.</i>
Think about that.  From the perspective of a Hillary supporter, mere voters can't be trusted to make good decisions.  Oh, no.  The elite superdelegates sometimes have to step in and save the poor, ignorant voters from themselves.
This is the sort of point of view needed to be a Hillary supporter these days: a preference for divisiveness, and a disdain for the preferences of mere voters.  

First we had McCain supporting Obama on the Wright issue:<a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/john-mccain-supports-obama-on.php">http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/john-mccain-supports-obama-on.php</a>

McCain said "I know Senator Obama, he does not share those views."

Now Huckabee:<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/03/20/an-fair-minded-republican.aspx">http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/archive/2008/03/20/an-fair-minded-republican.aspx</a><a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/huckabee-defend.html">http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/03/huckabee-defend.html</a>

With two examples to follow, maybe Hillary and her supporters will aspire to having has much class as these Republican candidates.

Obama is the only candidate re-framing the "commander in chief" question. Hillary and McCain want voters to look at the question from the perspective of experience. Obama re-frames the question from the perspective of judgment. It's a perspective that doesn't work for either McCain or Hlllary. And it's a perspective that can potentially have a lot of traction with voters given current public opinion on Bush's war.


Hillary adopts the Republican frame so thoroughly that her 3am ad, and her rhetoric about McCain "crossing the threshold," would work even better for McCain than it would for her. Adopting the Republican frame on the issue of national defense, against a mega-hawk like McCain, has got to be one of the worst campaign decisions ever made. As Obama points out in a speech today, she's made an argument that she simply cannot win.

Don't recommend this post, follow this link:  <a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/john-mccain-supports-obama-on.php"> http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/john-mccain-supports-obama-on.php </a>and recommend that one. It fell off the end of the "recent posts" list without making to the "recommended posts" list.
Watch the video.  See McCain show more class in defending Obama regarding Wright than you'll <i>ever</i> see from Hillary.   And right in Hannity's face.
"I do know Senator Obama, and he does not share those views."  
If you agree that this was a classy response from McCain, the sort of response one might hope Obama would get from Democratic rivals more readily than from GOP opponents, follow the link to neoprufrok's post, and recommend it so that it gets the  attention it deserves.