John McCain said: ""I think it's very clear who Hamas wants to be the next president of the United States. So apparently has Danny Ortega and several others. I think that people should understand that I will be Hamas's worst nightmare."

But I don't understand how McCain would be Hamas's worst nightmare. Would it be by sending American ground troops to hunt out and kill members of Hamas? That would be a bloody, miserable, and intractable conflict, in which notwithstanding large casualties on all sides, the ability of Hamas to recruit new volunteers from now until doomsday would be unbounded. Judicious American Presidents, such as Eisenhower and Reagan and Bush One, have always been reluctant to insert American troops as occupiers of strife-torn Middle Eastern countries.

Would McCain engage in a successful diplomatic effort or an economic redevelopment program of the whole region, so that the root causes of Hamas-like terrorism would be undermined?

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Clinton did not make a dent in Obama's lead by her win in Pennsylvania but what has happened is that the republican attack machine has begun the swiftboating in the wake of her negative attacks rightly decried by the New York Times.

It is bootless to speculate about the self-destructive tactics of the Clinton camp. What matters is going on the offense against the author of the typically bizarre, distracting, and hideous rightwing attacks: John McCain.

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