Memo to the Democratic presidential candidates: You can still beat Hillary Rodham Clinton, but you better act fast.
The former first lady looks more likely to win the nomination every day, showing strength in polling, fundraising and setting the campaign agenda.
She’s so strong, in fact, that the race has become about her. And Democratic operatives from presidential campaigns past and present say the only way for any other candidate to win the nomination is to make an even stronger case against her.”
I agree with this political analysis by Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press. It’s time for John Edwards and Barack Obama to take off the gloves and hit Hillary Clinton where it hurts.
Hillary is vulnerable because she is the embodiment of the Washington establishment, and the voters are desperate for change. In every remaining debate and forum the Democratic presidential hopefuls must hammer home the point that it’s time to break the ironclad grip that the Bush and the Clinton dynasties have on the White House. How can we call America a democracy, where every boy or girl can dream of becoming president, when two families have been in power at the White House for 27 years?
But Hillary’s real Achilles’ heel is her foreign policy record; she has been dead wrong on the Iraq war and on the seemingly inevitable Iran war. Hillary voted to give President George Bush a green light to invade Iraq and she recently voted for a measure that will give Bush the fig leave he needs to go to war against Iran.
Americans yearn for peace, but if Hillary wins the general election, I see eight more years of bloodshed in the Middle East.
Politics ain’t beanbag and Edwards and Obama should hurl some fastballs at Hillary’s noggin. The leading Democratic contenders most go for an early knockout of Hillary — they must derail the Clinton machine in Iowa. Edwards and Obama have an excellent chance of beating Clinton in the nation’s first caucus,and they must not spare any expense to bring her down.
A Hillary Clinton victory in Nov. 08 would be a disaster for the peace movement in specific and for democracy in general.
Memo to Edwards and Obama: Subtlety is for academicians; if a politician wants to win he must strike with all the nuance of a punch to the gut.
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