Hillary Counter Punches Off the Ropes

Is Hillary really the comeback kid or is she the Teflon Lady? Mr. Obama needed to have a knockout, and he didn’t deliver. Hillary Clinton effectively counter punched off the ropes to win two of the four rounds. Mr. Obama may be ahead on the score card relative to the number of pledged delegates, but Hillary has been rejuvenated and she will fight to the last bell.
Pennsylvania’s voting demographics are very similar to Ohio’s, and if Mr. Obama is not willing to fight, then why did he get into the ring of fire? It is imperative that Mr. Obama have a crystal clear message in his economic stimulus-job recovery and creation program for Pennsylvania and the rest of the nation. Mr. Obama also has to go on the offensive with fierce devastating attacks on Hillary’s character, work experience, foreign policy experience, her positions on NAFTA, CAFTA, WTO, her voting record in the U.S. Senate, her voting record on unionization and promotion of women into upper management jobs while serving on the Wal-Mart board, her refusal to release her 2006 taxes, the failure to release all her papers and documents while serving as First Lady, her failure to live up to her promise of creating five million jobs in the Greater Buffalo Area and Southwestern Corridor of New York State, her ties to corporate lobbyists, the illegal campaign contributions she received for which one donor is currently serving a prison sentence and the source of donations to the Clinton Presidential Library and the Clinton Foundation. It is still not known the source of the five million dollars Hillary lent to her campaign last month.
Attack ads should be short, strong and concise and resonate with the voters leaving them with the feeling that Hillary would not know what to do if she received a call at 3:00 in the morning. The attack ads should show that Hillary does not have the experience, temperament or judgment to be commander-in-chief. The Obama campaign is strongly urged to have their Opposition Candidate Research Committee to work more diligently and thoroughly to equip and prepare Mr. Obama in his new offensive. Everything is fair game in politics. All the Clinton scandals of the 1990’s will have to be evaluated and critically examined relative to how they may be used in an effective manner by Mr. Obama. Obama surrogates need to go on the offensive in a consistent, well-orchestrated, coordinated, positive attack on everything available on Hillary and Bill Clinton.

James and Susan McDougal were convicted on May 28, 1996 of fraud and conspiracy. Arkansas governor, Jim Guy Tucker was convicted of similar charges by the same jury. James McDougal, the former partner with then governor Bill Clinton in the Whitewater Development Corporation, was sentenced on April 14, 1997 to three years in prison for seeking to enrich himself with fraudulent loans. He died in prison on March 8, 1998. There is still an appearance of impropriety of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill’s roles in the Whitewater scandal in which she did six hours of work for an S&L linked to the Whitewater scandal. Hillary testified before a federal grand jury on the Whitewater scandal on January 26, 1996. There are still many unanswered questions surrounding the silence of Susan McDougal’s refusal to testify. Why would Susan McDougal go to jail rather than tell the truth? And why has the media given a free pass to Mrs. McDougal whereby they have not extensively investigated, cross-examined or tried to extract information relative to her silence? Perhaps now is the time.
Mr. Obama’s campaign strategist, Mr. Axelrod did Mr. Obama a gross disservice by constantly having Mr. Obama on the defensive from scurrilous attacks from the media, the Clintons, the Clinton’s surrogates, John McCain and McCain’s surrogates. The best defense is a good offense and Mr. Obama should have never been in a position of defending Louis Farrakhan’s non-endorsement of his candidacy, his wife’s comments concerning her patriotism, his religion, the Rezcko trial, and his failure to explain in his first news conference relative to what happened with his surrogate in conjunction with the Canadian Embassy on NAFTA , and his meeting with people convicted of domestic terrorism. Mr. Obama’s campaign strategist and manager will have to improve their performance as we head into Pennsylvania.
Furthermore, Mr. Obama’s campaign on the ground failed in Texas to turn out the African-American vote which was less than the vote in 2004. Also note that Mr. Obama failed to penetrate significantly into the Hispanic/Latino, senior citizen and White male vote. He was counting on the younger vote in Texas, but Hillary made new inroads with the younger voters and she won 67% of the Latino vote which offset any gains Mr. Obama received from African-Americans and more affluent, educated voters. Apparently, the Obama campaign misjudged the effectiveness of reactionaries as Rush Limbaugh who called for White Republicans to vote for Hillary Clinton. We do know that 500,000 Republicans voted in the Democratic primary.
Twenty percent of the White voters in Ohio said that race played a part in their vote. I worked in all of the 23 counties in Western Pennsylvania for the Governor’s Office of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission and I know for a fact that Pennsylvania has a reputation for being the Mississippi North of the Mason-Dixon Line. I predict that at least 30 to 40% of the White electorate of Pennsylvania will vote on the basis of race, class and gender. The Clintons will run a down and dirty hardball campaign in the State of Pennsylvania. Look for another racially divisive, polarizing, gender, class battle in the Keystone State.
Barack Obama must mount an aggressive offensive to expose the Clintons for the political fraudulent gangsters that they are.