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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (221073)	2/25/2007 10:10:23 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 281500

You think Obama is still going to be fresh and new 20 months from now? You think Rat would vote for Hillary if she was the only one on the ballot and write-ins weren't allowed? A true war enabler.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (221073)	2/26/2007 9:03:25 AM
From: carranza2	Respond to of 281500

I would agree if the election were six months away. But it's twenty months away. You think Obama is still going to be fresh and new 20 months from now? Starting the season so early was a mistake I think will damage the most shopworn candidate, Hillary, the most. If her advisors were as good as claimed, she would not have announced so early. I think the Dems, particularly Hillary, are going to tone it down. But doing so gives Obama some running room. I think that if he can keep it low key and on a high road, he has brilliantly snookered Hillary into exhibiting her negatives early and often. His campaign understands her better than she does herself. The blast at Geffen and Obama is the kind of thing which will incrementally damage her bid because, as you say, she has a political tin ear and is vicious and vindictive. All of that will be on ample display because she seems to rise for every bit of bait thrown her way whether it is Geffen or the early candidacy. If she had not announced, Obama may very well have been floundering among the rest of the small fish candidates, wasting precious time and money. By announcing early, she validated him. I doubt that she has the insight to realize this or to listen to any advisors who do. She's clearly not a political natural. In fact, she's a very poor tactician, a failing she has put on display for a very long time, witness the health care policy debacle shortly after Bill's first election as President. She needs to make Bill her campaign manager; she obviously cannot.