Hillary, Obama, and Osama

Hillary Clinton's TV spot was the first Democratic ad to make pictorial reference to the al-Qaida terrorist. It was about time.
How much the ad helped Clinton achieve her impressive victory in the Pennsylvania primary is hard to tell. It was a vague message touting her ability to deal with emergencies and cited a variety of them -- the 1929 stock market crash, the Cuban missile crisis and Hurricane Katrina, as well as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
What's clear is that the ad itself wasn't as effective a pitch for Clinton as was the indignant response of Barack Obama's surrogates. An Obama spokesman condemned the spot as "the politics of fear."
If Obama's supporters want to argue that their candidate can better handle these challenges than Clinton, then fine, they should do so. But for some unfathomable reason, they insist on drumming Osama bin Laden out of polite Democratic conversation, such as there is any these days.
The day after Pennsylvania, The New York Times ran a nutty editorial, "The Low Road to Victory," that bashed Clinton for waving "the bloody shirt of 9-11." Oh, is referring to the event that obliterated the World Trade Center -- still a blank in Lower Manhattan -- an irrational demagogic appeal to old grievances? (One suspects that the Times regrets its endorsement of Clinton in the New York primary, especially since she became unfashionable in fancy circles.)
An enduring fear of terrorism may help explain a remarkable SurveyUSA poll that shows Obama virtually tied with McCain in Massachusetts. In super-liberal Massachusetts!
Obama is unelectable. Voters will not ignore Obama's 20 year relationship with anti-American racist “Rev.” Wright, what to say of Obama's friendly relationship with the known and unrepentant terrorist William Ayers. When you put the ideas supported by Wright and Ayers together, one has to question Obama's judgment in his choice of friends. When the poor judgment and possible ulterior motives behind these relationships are considered, it begs question of ‘what could Obama’s agenda for America be?’ Just how would Obama deal with the known enemies of America and its allies such as al-Qaeda or Hamas when his habits with past associations would indicate these as like-minded friends? Now consider Obama’s ‘Politics of Hope’ which is a complete sham when he guts the real concerns of voters with his condescending and elitist rhetoric; stereotyping the working class of Pennsylvania and the whole country as xenophobic bigots obsessed with religion and guns.

From the files of "Crack-Pot" Howard Dean

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said Thursday that swing voters participating in focus groups commissioned by the D.N.C. bring up John McCain's age unprompted. "We didn't bring it up, but they volunteered it," said Dean who explained that voters have two concerns about McCain's age. "One was a health concern, the other was, and this is really interesting . . . that his views are old-fashioned."

Well, Dr. Dean's bordering on insanity worries ME, not to mention his two candidates (PIAPS & Hussein-Obama) who are fighting to be the nominee for his party who also have me worried