There are two possibilities for the Obama ad: one, that it was done by a clever but clueless Obama supporter who thinks it's okay to spread the straight Drudge/Rove/Coulter line on Hillary, or the other is, it was done by somebody working for the Republicans. Think YouTube "ratfucking." "Let's you and him fight." Remember the phony madrassa story? It was supposed to have come from the Hillary camp. It didn't, it came from deepest, darkest wingnuttery.

But this? Turn off the video. Listen to what the Hillary-monster is saying. What's wrong with that? What's demonic and dictatorial about that? It doesn't say ANYTHING about Hillary, but it forces you to look at everything she says with mistrust. Hmm. Hillary as dictator. As Big Mother? Who thinks that? Obama? No, Drudge peddles that line. Limbaugh peddles that line, and has since 1992! This is Harry and Louise crap. Hillary the dictator. Bull.

For you computer hackers out there, this has all the signs of a "man in the middle" attack. If Drudge says this crap, Dems ignore it. If "Fake Obama" says it, it's more credible. But what does Obama say about Hillary? Not that she's dictatorial -- that's GW Bush, with the warrantless wiretapping and the Patriot Act and all the rest. Obama is effective when he portrays Hillary as too much of a triangulator, a calculator, a compromiser. Someone who just "went along" with the "smart political move" in voting for the Iraq war. That means, he says she's old and too centrist.

If any Obama supporter thinks they're profitting from this, they're very wrong. No Democrat profits, long-term, from the idea that Hillary is a "dictator." First they'll go after the front-runner, then if they get rid of her, they'll be coming for Obama, the "not negro enough," or the "callow youth," or whatever.

I'm not asking anybody to support Hillary. Just don't participate in the trashing of any Democrat. It lowers the value of our "brand."