Clinton-Obama feud benefits Edwards and Richardson

One day after the Youtube debate, Hillary Clinton told a local newspaper that Barack Obama was "irresponsible and frankly naive" for wanting to talk with world leaders that are US foes.  As expected, the Obama Campaign immediately fired back.

Is it just me, or are the top two campaigns forgetting the lessons of 2004?  Going into the final three weeks before the Iowa Caucus, it looked like either Howard Dean or Dick Gephardt would win the nomination.  Desperate and almost blind to the reality that there were two other formidable candidates in the race, Dean and Gephardt unleashed a barrage of attacks against one another.  All that negativity weighted down the two front-runners, while John Kerry and John Edwards went untouched and surged to the very top in Iowa just in time for the vote.  Kerry and Edwards both ended up on the Democratic ticket, while Gephardt and Dean were finished.

Relate this to today.  If Dean and Gephardt are like Obama and Clinton, then Kerry and Edwards are -- you guessed it -- like Edwards and Richardson.  Hillary and Barack had better be careful to not attack one another too early and too often, because realistically speaking voters will find alternatives.

Comments

[Tony]

"Hillary Clinton told a local newspaper that Barack Obama was "irresponsible and frankly naive" for wanting to talk with world leaders that are US foes."

If people didn't speak to their "foes", then eventually not a single country (or person for that matter) would be speaking. It might take thousands of years, but that would be the end result. The hell with Hillary. I am beginning to think she is a evil run of the mill politician.

[George]

Well, she is definitely run of the mill. i could go to washington and find you 600 Hillary Clintons. One more worthless than the next.