Michael Goodwin with the NY Daily News
describes what seems to be a synchronized negative attack on Obama by the Clinton Campaign, McCain and other neo cons.
Hillary Clinton and neocons use the same playbook against Barack Obama
Politics often creates strange bedfellows, but Barack Obama has managed to forge one of the oddest pairings ever. His campaign has sent such shock waves through the body politic that
Bill and Hillary Clinton stand united against him with some of the staunchest soldiers of the conservative movement.They come at him from different angles, but in their attacks on Obama, these sworn enemies increasingly sound like partners. They both describe Obama as something akin to the Wizard of Oz — an inspiring speaker with no beef behind the curtain.
...In amassing a large coalition of young and old, black and white Democrats, independents and some Republicans, Obama offers the possibility that America can finally get beyond its partisan stalemates. If that happened, a united nation would be better equipped to move forward on everything from the economy to the scourge of Islamic terror.
...Increased citizen involvement is the greatest threat to special interests. Brought together by a common purpose, new voters are unlikely to fall sway to the narrow focuses that have reduced politics to a board game of legal bribes for pols and paybacks for special interests...