Clinton & Obama Need to Cool It or Lose It
By Bob Beckel
Two things have become obvious about the state of the Democratic nomination for president. The first is that the stars haven’t been better aligned for Democrats to win the White House since FDR crushed Hoover in 1932. The second is that six more weeks of attacks and counterattacks between the Clinton and Obama campaigns will move them perilously close to accomplishing the otherwise unimaginable job of giving the Republicans another term in the White House.
Just this past week, Clinton supporter James Carville called Bill Richardson’s endorsement of Barack Obama on Good Friday a Judas-like act of betrayal. Not to be outdone, Obama supporter and former Air Force chief of staff Tony McPeak accused Bill Clinton of McCarthyism.
What’s painful about these almost daily negative exchanges is that they’re not going to alter the outcome of any of the remaining contests. All they do is stir up hostilities between both camps, making it increasingly difficult to unite the party behind the eventual winner
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