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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (12817)	12/14/2007 11:14:18 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25737

Then it's agreed: They're sorry By Wesley Pruden December 14, 2007 The politics of desperation is never pretty, but it's always instructive. With only 20 days to go before the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 3, we're getting a preview of what to expect over the next three weeks. Sinking poll numbers on the eve of destruction always gets a pol's undivided attention, and Hillary Clinton has the numbers. She's sagging in Iowa and dead even with Barack Obama in New Hampshire. Only a fortnight ago she looked invincible with a 20-point lead. Now she just looks inept. Mzz Clinton, who had earlier raised questions about Barack Obama's policy positions as set out in a "white paper" he wrote when he was in the third grade, yesterday fired her national campaign co-chairman for getting caught going her one better. Bill Shaheen suggested that Republicans are lying in wait to ask whether Mr. Obama was not only a little dopehead but a child drug dealer, too. Does Mr. Shaheen believe that himself? Well, one never knows, do one? But one is pretty sure that this question was not raised to get an answer, but to sow mischief. So Mr. Shaheen had to drink the hemlock. He "deeply regrets" saying naughty things, and the remarks were "in no way authorized by Senator Clinton or the Clinton campaign." (Who could think that?) Said Mr. Shaheen: "Senator Clinton has been running a positive campaign." (Of course. We're talking Clintons here.) Nevertheless, the accusation is out there and it's worth the trouble. Hillary has to keep her reputation for abhorring all lies, for thoughtful kindness and for always telling the truth even if it hurts. Bill Shaheens are available at the five-and-dime. Hillary's inevitability began evaporating when it began to dawn even on the Clinton idolaters that Hillary, whatever else she is, ain't Bill. Her campaign strategy, devised by Mark Penn, her chief pollster, was to run her as an incumbent — "buy the new one and get the stale one free." The idea was to pursue "moderation" lest she drive higher her "negatives," unrivaled in American politics. The "Bill wing" of the campaign team, remembering the happy days of the campaign war room in Little Rock, wants her to get tough, to adopt a much more aggressive strategy. (Such as, perhaps, sending a national co-chairman out to suggest that Barack Obama was a boy crackhead and grade-school drug dealer.)