In last night's Democratic debate it seemed as if any Howard Wolfson inspired idea, like the over-scripted, "Change you can Xerox", which Hillary delivered like she was biting down on a cyanide caplet, only benefited Obama. He rose above it all and called the comment part of "silly season" in politics. Who is Wolfson working for? when you create softballs that the opposition can use to only further increase their credibility as a reasonable candidate.
Wolfson has never run Clinton against a serious candidate. Her 2000 and 2006 senate campaigns she ran against weak opposition. So now, with hubris and an unwillingness to shift from classic attack politics to playing Obama's game of rising above it all, Hillary has cast herself as the establishment candidate and refuses to depart from this failing strategy.
She needs to have her break-it-down moment, not scripted, not filled with zingers, where she lays out who she is and what she wants. She needs to bring a picture of her and Bill at Oxford, the one where she has long hair and he looks like Grizzly Adams, and show the audience the core optimist that she was and is.
Obama's illusion of being "real" will continue to sustain unless she's willing to burst the bubble, by bringing her whole self to the table. I hope she does it in the last debate, or we might be looking at 100 years in Iraq made possible by the Manchurian Candidate.
Wolfson has never run Clinton against a serious candidate. Her 2000 and 2006 senate campaigns she ran against weak opposition. So now, with hubris and an unwillingness to shift from classic attack politics to playing Obama's game of rising above it all, Hillary has cast herself as the establishment candidate and refuses to depart from this failing strategy.
She needs to have her break-it-down moment, not scripted, not filled with zingers, where she lays out who she is and what she wants. She needs to bring a picture of her and Bill at Oxford, the one where she has long hair and he looks like Grizzly Adams, and show the audience the core optimist that she was and is.
Obama's illusion of being "real" will continue to sustain unless she's willing to burst the bubble, by bringing her whole self to the table. I hope she does it in the last debate, or we might be looking at 100 years in Iraq made possible by the Manchurian Candidate.
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