I’ll extend this metaphor somewhat if I may:
As the coach in a playoff series; behind 3 games to 1; 2 minutes to go; down by 20 points with no chance of winning;
She sends in goons with instructions to take out the opposing teams star players. If she can’t win, then by God, the other team will be too injured in the next playoff round. That’ll show them!
Fair enough . . . but I’m pretty certain your OP did not stem from a rabid devotion to Senator Obama.
Good to see you too, brother.
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Several, actually. A few off the top of my head:
When it comes to “stimulus packages”, he favors those that both (a) put money in private sector hands and (b) improve the national infrastructure.
He favors letting the Bush tax complications expire and simplifying the remaining code to provide tax relief for the middle class. (If implimented as is, it will in fact eliminate taxes for 10 million working Americans.)
He is resistant to launching any federal project that cannot be paid for by real funds already in place.
He wants to elminate unary credit contracts, such as credit cards that can change terms unilaterally without the consent of the customer.
My personal favorite is the advocacy of actual free trade. As Austan Goolsbee (his advisor) has said:
[O]pen markets are good. But I don’t think it helps when you open up trade agreements and see that they’re 2,000 pages long, and they look just like the tax code – that the first three pages are about opening markets, and then the next 1,997 pages are loopholes, giveaways, special protections for individual industries. I mean, that’s getting us pretty far from the case for open markets.And Obama himself has expressed his faith in the free market as a matter of standing principle:
I believe that America’s free market has been the engine of America’s great progress. It’s created a prosperity that is the envy of the world. It’s led to a standard of living unmatched in history. And it has provided great rewards to the innovators and risk-takers who have made America a beacon for science, and technology, and discovery.
Why not? It worked for Bush! 
I posted this in GD but I’ve got to let out some steam, so I’ll repost it here.
Did Clinton reach 10 million in 24 hours? The world may never know.
I cannot fault the Clinton campaign. They did not lie. They announced the facts as the stood at the time. It is supposed to be the job of the news media to be our nations eyes and ears but all I’ve seen are headlines jumping up and down about that 10 million in 24 hours and not one outlet that I’ve seen HAS ACTUALLY CHECKED OUT THE FACTS.
They have, in fact, been sucking dick.
This is the first time I’ve opened a thread on this board about Obama or Hillary. The first several dozen posts are by Obama supporters saying dreadful things about Clinton, and yet
How does this work again? From this vantage point all the rancor and division is coming from one side.
Because the rancor you are reading in this thread is not coming from Obama. It is coming from his supporters. Hillary provides her own rancor and division. Like when she said she’d rather have McCain as her VP. Then she very generously offered Obama the VP even though he was ahead in every way imaginable.
Or how she steals his catchphrases, uses them herself for herself and then calls him an empty suit. Or like when she has her spokespeople say he’s only winning because he’s black. Or when she brands Obama inexperienced with attack ads and tells everyone she’ll be ready from day one because of her sniper fire ducking trial by fire. Or like those attack “get out of the kitchen” ads she ran. Or. . .
you get the idea.
Has the young person vote ever swung an election? Is the young person vote supposed to swing any swing states for Obama? They why should she not carry on? Neither one will get the automatic 2025 or whatever needed to be handed the nom, so why not go on and hope that enough will be swayed to her side? Hell, if the Obama/Wright/Farrakhan ties had come out a year ago she may have a comfortable lead- who knows what could surface in the next few months on Obama that would sway delegates to her side?
But the ball game isn’t over. Hillary still has some chance at the nomination-- especially when you include the possibility of super-delegates crowning Hillary champ (for what ever reason).
It is a political oddity, but Indiana is a presidential-primary battleground right now so there is heavy media coverage. I don’t think covering the Hillary/Obama tussle there is pandering to advertisers, it’s a legitimate big story. OTOH, North Carolina is not as interesting because there is really no contest. If you want 24 hour coverage of the NC primary you can get it online.
BUT–the fact that the media overdo the coverage is another thread.
Apparently you just started paying attention. Hillary started getting very nasty after she was clobbered on “super Tuesday.” (Waggling her finger, braying “shame on you, Barack Obama!”)
By the way, polls have shown a greater number of Hillary supporters say that they will not vote for Obama than vice versa. What does that tell you about your “vantage point” and whose side is nastier?
All of the above criticisms of Clinton are based on things she has actually said and did. No shaded innuendos (“Obama’s not Moslem … as far as I know”), no exaggerated and dredged up stuff from the past that has no bearing on anything, etc.
Clinton is the candidate of alienation, rancor, and division, because that is who she is and that is who is shining forth in her campaign.
What it appears she is saying is that her supporters see no real difference between herself and John McCain, and would just as soon vote for him if Hillary isn’t nominated.
But if she tells those supporters that she supports Obama, then they will support Obama. For the most part. Unless she refuses to campaign on his behalf, which I wouldn’t put past her at this point.
Oh she’ll campaign for him. I can just hear her now, “Obama would be a great President, despite his inexperience and his blackness and his not being Muslim for all I know. Using what he learned from his mentor Reverend Wright, and his acquaintance, Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground…Hahahahaha, no that’s not a jazz fusion group, you sillies…Obama has made a great effort to cling to your concerns. Let’s all get behind Barack Hussein Obama and hope we don’t get a call at 3 am.”
I’m sorry, what thread was that again?
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Sorry, took me a while to get back in here…
I never said he wasn’t decent. In fact, a few years ago I think he would have made a fine president. But I think his time has passed.
What I was referring to was the general feeling that the Republicans have been fucking things up in the last few years, and that “we need a change” and “we need to go in a new direction.” And yet, “we” are probably going to meet the new boss in January, who is the same as the old boss.
Maybe people are right- the Democratic party just won’t be asshole enough to win. But I kind of wish they would.
EJsGirl, lifelong Republican-turned-Obama Mama
Hillary is the pro NAFTA and pro international corporations second choice. If she beats McCain they figure it will be business as usual. A lot of rhetoric but little action, if she wins. Does anyone think Hillary intends to face up to corporations and the masters of war.? I do not. She capitulates to the power base. I hope she surprises me.
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Nicely misogynistic thread title there, “Liberal”.
Gawdamm …
I agree. He should’ve displayed more gender sensitivity, and said “I hope Hillary is enjoying having her dick sucked by the pundits.”
Oh well. As of today, it’s moot. They’ve turned on her.