i dont know what to think of this. both have achilles heels that i think of as strengths (except for hillary and her snake ways which is why most repubs hate her, but the women thing can be used very effectively against her in the big election.)

i dont know which is weaker. which the repubs would find to be an easier opponent. despite clinton having such a hate following, i think that obama might be easier prey for the big campaign. and i think they would love it more, if hillary were shot down before she even got into the game.

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Yeah but they want to destroy the Clinton legacy and it would be best if she were the nom to do it.

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I'd like to believe the Clintons are better than that. Who knows. I've always respected her more than him (going back to the '93 Hillarycare campaign).

I do hope Obama can win it for the Democrats, because it looks like he's going to be the one. Maybe if he had a really experienced/seasoned VP runningmate it would bolster him against all the "inexperience" criticisms. I was reading an article that suggested that McCain could potentially be a Democratic (?) runningmate if he didn't win the Republican nomination. Wasn't he asked by Kerry back in 2004?

Going back to the "Muslim" thing though...it makes me think that if Obama actually did have some sort of Muslim past, his US political career would be over.

well i use mine too, and i think most journalists make an effort to use trustworthy sources, and absent that, they refrain from printing the story.

i don't agree... if they try to discredit obama and use the clinton campaign to do so, they remove themselves from the picture. it's actually brilliant because all along, obama has had charisma and clinton has had the money. last year, when the rumors first started, there was no clear democratic frontrunner, but on the other hand you have two democrats with different strengths ... and back in January 2007, there were only lame prospects for Republicans. I can completely see using fear-- the usual MO fro Republicans -- to start a rumor ala Rove about the charismatic young hopeful from Illinois, and then blaming the Clintons for all nastiness.

Remember, what matters in campaign politics are not so much diehard party voters who vote the platform of their party, but independent and swing voters. These are also the people who will be turned off the most from smear campaigns. These people are the targets of Republican attention all the way until election time.

This smear campaign does more damage to the democratic party than it does to individual candidates.

If this is coming from the Republicans, it would be a smart way to "smear" them both at the same time