URGENT MESSAGE TO SENATOR BARACK OBAMA FROM AN ARDENT SUPPORTER***
You are making a grave political error Senator Obama. Stop focusing your attacks on Hillary. Go after Congress. Hard. Here's why.
The right wing is taking care of Hillary for you. Sure, keep asking a few pointed questions like why won't she admit she made a mistake in voting to authorize the war in Iraq? Why did she feel equipped to make such a decision at the time when she had not read the key intelligence available to Senators in the form of the NIE? But mostly try to be above the Hillary fray. As you've said, she is just more politics as usual. Don't get mired in that muck.
Plus, attacking Hillary directly can backfire. Unlike a lot of other Democratic lollipop politicians who sit there and get licked (J. Kerry), Hillary and her team fight back well.
The right wing is not talking about you. Good. Don't get Hillary started on you. Stay out of that fight. Stay away from the crossfire. You are not about that. You are not politics as usual.
Instead focus on Congress. Who is even more hated than our President and his cronies? Congress. By a lot. They have fallen down on the job. There is a lot there to talk about. It’s not talked about enough. Congress is even more out of touch than the President. Congress doesn't have a clue why they got elected: to push back on the President, not to be lollipop Democrats. Hold Congress accountable. Do it constructively. Frame it as driving them to start stopping the incompetent, misguided Republicans like they should have in the first place. It's not too late.
As you said at the time when it actually mattered, Congress never should have voted for this war. And now Congress should not vote another penny for it. Nor should they vote for the President's warmongering bills aimed at Iran. This President is an addict. Bush talks about addiction to oil. That's just the start of the addiction. The tip of the iceberg. It's war. Addiction to war. That's their central problem.
Americans have had it with Congress. As well they should. They haven't had it with Hillary because she really hasn't done anything to merit that - except being part of the rollover Democrats in Congress that is. Focus on Congress. That is the key.
PS A smart friend of mine came up with this idea.