Unleashing the Monster

A high ranking Obama advisor calls Hillary Clinton a monster and is forced to resign with a swiftness. A short term smack down for Obama for sure. But one has to wonder what the long term effects are. Is the "Hillary is a monster" meme now out and free to roam? One has to wonder if she is going to regret calling attention to that comment at all. And it right after she just went brutally negative in the election no less.

When Hillary's 3am phone call ad runs, how many people now are going to think about a monster picking up a phone?

Who McCain picks for VP is suddenly becoming very interesting. Does he go left or right? I'm guessing going left would make him a very serious threat to Hillary. If she manages to beat Obama via the foul republican style tactics she's deploying now there are going to a be an awful lot of upset Obama fans McCain could sweep up with the right VP choice. Hell, imagine the political theater of him picking Obama...

And just for the record, if it isn't clear already, Hillary has managed to thoroughly and utterly obliterate any respect I had for her in the course of two months. There is plenty of time for her to do repair work before the election for sure, but the utterly selfish politics she's push right now are so down right repugnant it's a hard call. She's trying to win the nomination the way Kerry did in 04, by playing republican style backstabbing politics. Its an awful approach, and not just because it is so alienating. It's also just plain dumb, cause that shit only works against democrats, outsmearing a republican is about as bad a bet as you can take.

Meanwhile Obama needs to step up, he took a handful of nasty blows in the last week and he's not looking good. He needs to turn around and show some strength, which in his case basically means make a killer speech. If I were him I'd lay it on the table, make the choice real clear: do you want to vote for a unified country or a divided country?