Obama is going to have to invest all his capital in the primaries, his supporters only have so much money, he will have to start anew raising money for the general election. McCain will be sitting their waiting for him. Hillary need to be offered an incentive to get out of the way. Hillary can't win form here on out, you know it and I know it, Romney did the right thing, it is time for Hillary to do the right thing if she looses the upcoming primaries. There is no feasible way Hillary could win loosing all these primaries, Obama will split Texas and Ohio, then what.

Another point is that the Dems have a chance for a 61 seat in the senate, Obama could be out stomping for senatorial candidates to achieve that. Does anyone here think that Hillary could stomp for many of these marginal seats. Republicans crossing over will probably like to give Obama the Senate and House that would not block his programs, not so with Hillary, they would want to see a congress that blocks Hillary.

All in all Obama is the future of the Democratic party, he could successfully put it on a different path to success.

McCain ate Ramney in two weeks,there is a lot of time to very slowly chew Obama.

And McCain won't need swiftboaters for help,Obama swiftboated himsalf allready.

He did it first in2002 when he was against the IRAQ war.
Beleev me, antiwar position will sink him fast.

Obama on the ticket,not even TITANIC.

It'll be Small boat with the big hole you know where.

And Clinton won't be the president ,if Obama on ticket,becouse of his antiwar position.

And if you all want to have democrat president,please,give Clinton a little space for manoeuvres to protect her forWAR position.

And for my AA friends,
Can you just forget about the race for a while?

Obama WILL be swiftboated if his campaign and his supporters ignore the talk radio monopoly. That's where the real swiftboating is done.

Progressives have been playing politics without a front line and don't know it. They might want to begin recognizing , monitoring, boycotting and protesting relative to their local radio stations, which are the power centers of the Republican party.

Most political and media analysis is done while discounting or even ignoring the effect of the Republican talk radio monopoly. Most media analysts read and watch. there are no talk radio transcripts to search to analyze to demonstrate the power of that coordinated uncontested repetition that reaches 50-70MIL Americans 24/5/365 and is used by the Roves and Norquists like an invisible hammer to whack their opponents in the democratic party and anyone in the media who would dare to criticize their annointed leaders and irrational policies.

Since the Fairness Doctrine was killed by Reagan the GOP has had near complete free rein to frame and control the debate and the limits of the debate, to threaten and intimidate politicians without having to face those they threaten, to censor and to swiftboat anything and anyone progressive. The loudmouths lay out a smorgasbord of prechewed and tested one liners and talking points for the lazy celebrity media to pick from and most analysts only see the final result. Many of the political myths that dog progressives now could not have been created without the uncontested repetition of that talk radio monopoly. The Clintons, Gores, and Kerrys probably still don't know what really hit them. Those kinds of character hit jobs can't be done on TV and print alone, even with today's consolidation-- they have to put up an appearance of balance.

Obama should have some good staffers lined up to counter any character-assassination attempts by opponents.

what barockstar is saying is that "swiftboating won't stop me"...in other words there are things in his background that can be swiftboated but he thinks he will overcome them....unfortunately that will not be up to him to determine.

how will respond when KKKrove parades out a new crackhead every week saying they bought dope from barockstar?

"Swiftboating" won't stop Obama because, unlike Kerry, he's not incompetent. If Kerry had come out against those ads with confidence, he would have been fine. Something like "Believe what you will, but last I checked, earning two purple hearts and a silver star was still pretty good." Instead, he botched it as usual.

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Obama is right ...He CAN'T be Swiftboated...

He did not spend 3 months in Vietnam....Get 3 Purple Hearts and not miss a single day from the field....

Obama did not come back home and lie about his fellow Vets to the US Congress...

The Swiftboat Veterans for Truth had KERRY'S number....They were there and knew he was a FRAUD!

Kerry was an idiot to run as a war hero...


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regarding the comment made by JohnKemp. You are a dumb asshole. The reason Kerry was swiftboated was because all those throwing stones are pussy's that nevers served this country in war time. So it's morons like you that can't see beyond your own screwed up reality. You should check your facts before posting such crap. You are coward just like all those GOP blabber mouths up on the hill.

Obama needs a reality check: repugs control the media, not him. He's only been allowed to define himself by the media because the repugs want to run againsta black man who admitted doing cocaine.

This is the time to start hammering the presumptive Republican nominee. This is not the time to be calling either of the Democratic nominees names.
I am not talking swiftfuckin like the Republicans do, I am talking about a 100 year war. No contitutional expertise, no economic expertise, ducking votes about the economic stimulus plan yesterday and so, so, so many more things we Democratic voters by the millions agree on.

"winning the grueling contest for the Democratic nomination will make him the "toughest, baddest candidate on the block," he tells 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft"

WOW!

This from a charlatan who can't even show up to vote.

"Being swiftboated" simply means having the truth told about you; as it was told about Kerry's Vietnam "experience."

Obama does share that very Dem defining characteristic, however, going all the way back to FDR (while skipping Truman.)

Dems fear the truth being told about them worse than Dracula feared the cross.

Of course not, he hasn't done anything in his life that can be criticized - because he hasn't done anything in his life!

Don't worry Obama, you can't be swiftboated because you never were in Vietnam. Furthermore, you never repeated over and over again that you were in VIETNAM like Kerry did when he ran.