Fear Factor: Clinton does a McCain

While I'm not sure that I'm too enamored of Obama's vague hope & change message (I'd love a Democratic candidate who hammers the Repulicans for all their horrible misdeeds since 2001 and is dedicated to an absolute U-turn), I feel worse about Hilary Clinton. Her use of fear (see my previous post) is repugnant.

And as the owner of the "War in Context" site explains (http://warincontext.org/2008/03/05/how-did-mcclinton-do-it/), it's also self-defeating. While Hilary may love to posture as a tough natural security figure, this plays right into McCain's ("Mr.-let's-stay-in-Iraq-for-100-years") hands and may well set up the Democrats for defeat in November.

To pin all blame on Clinton would be unfair, though. It has to be said that a substantial portion of the U.S. electorate is nothing but gullible and terribly uninformed when it comes to "security" measures. You'd think that after nearly 8 years of Bush's unique combination of abuse, arrogance, and incompetence, enough people would wake up to repudiate the Republican party and send them to a historic defeat from which it will take them a couple of decades to recover.

Well, I must be dreaming...