...Up until now, Obama has received relatively sympathetic treatment from the two-headed right-wing/media monster because he's been the anti-Hillary, and hatred for her resulted in affection (or at least restraint) towards him. Once he's no longer the anti-Hillary, but instead becomes the only thing standing between John McCain/GOP power and the White House, he's going to be the target of all of that bile and much, much more. As the Right begins to believe that he very well might be the enemy this Fall, and they thus pressure the media to begin its attacks, this week one got a small glimpse -- a tiny fraction -- of what is to come. So the question can't be whether the Right and the media will behave differently. They can't and won't.
The real question is whether Obama, as he did this week, will be able to render these attacks impotent, even cause them to backfire, because they and their propagators will appear to be so ugly and small and irrelevant in light of the type of candidate he is, the rhetoric he produces, the vision to which he aspires. I have no idea whether Obama's transcendent charisma or the historically demonstrated efficacy of low-life right-wing attacks will be more potent -- I think it's a much more difficult challenge than many Obama supporters (by virtue of understandable desire, rather than objective assessment) have convinced themselves it will be -- but there probably aren't very many priorities more important than cleansing our political process of this type of dirt and petty distraction...
Unity isn't possible with those who would rule instead of govern unless you're slaving for them.
This is the principal problem with Obama's philosphy. He wants to leave all the issues of the 20th Century behind us, when a big chunk of America won't abandon the issues of the 19th. That doesn't even include the wealthiest and most powerful 0.1% of America, which has been successful in rolling the economy back to the Hoover era before the New Deal.
But then, Obama's campaign, like Hillary's, is designed to fail. That's why he was allowed to get where he is today.
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"Obama's campaign, like Hillary's, is designed to fail."
Gotta disagree with you there. Obama's campaign is designed to win the GE. He'll beat McCain like a drum (assuming this Larry Sinclair thing doesn't blow up).
Let's hope you're right, Oyster.
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