(Here's a letter-to-the-editor that will be printed in my local paper here in North Carolina. Permission hereby granted to use any part or all of it in letters to your hometown papers.)

Could this be the attack if Hillary is nominated?

Here is one example from when Guilian and Clinton were the likely fall nominees:

"Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday accused former President Clinton of not responding forcefully enough to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing or later terrorist attacks."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory ?id=3318833

Since Barack Obama has been in the lead this entire primary season maybe Hillary Clinton is the one not vetted for the fall campaign.

A loaded question for you all from me an Obama supporter.

Whoever is the next president of the United States will have their hands full. For example, the price of gas is not going to come down. It won't come down if we leave Iraq or if we stay there, I think that some people think that when we leave Iraq the price will fall. It won't. High prices are a a result of hard realities of supply and demand and have very little to do with the war. Obama  will not be able to fix this, (no one can fix it) and I worry people will get angry when the price just keeps going up even after we exit Iraq. People will say the price is going up because we left-- just as some people have mistakenly said it is high because we are there-- that's not the real issue here. It's supply and demand.

I wrote this for today's Beyond Chron.

Hillary Clinton ran a new campaign commercial on Friday - asking who you want answering the White House phone at 3:00 a.m. when something happens in our "dangerous world."  The ad was indistinguishable from what John McCain did two months ago, and within 3 hours Barack Obama felt compelled to shoot a response.  For years, Democrats have been paralyzed by fear - believing they must pick a candidate who is "tough" on national security.  It's a false dynamic that cedes to Republican talking points - and as we learned from John Kerry in 2004, doesn't help Democrats win.  Fear is an effective tactic because it causes people to behave irrationally, which is why the right has used it time and again.  But at the same time, Democrats cannot just ignore it.

Couldn't Clinton's ad be used as McCain ad against either Democrat?

This new ad from Clinton on national security and asks voters who they want answering the call in the event of international trouble.

"It's 3 a.m. and your children are safely asleep. Who do you want answering the phone?"
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video_l og/2008/02/clinton_children.html

If this is the deciding issue isn't the answer for most American's John McCain not Clinton or Obama?

Is this how we democrats want to frame the 2008 election?

If what we have to do over the next 4 years is fight a hot war with the fear of real attacks at 3:00 am every night?

I have made it obvious my answer is "yes" this helps McCain, but what do you think?

Does this ad help McCain in the General no matter who the democratic nominee is?

     In this country many of us equate strength with the lack of emotion. The strong one is the one who can endure life without feeling. The weak one is the one who shows their emotions and thus are banished to a life of disappointment and tragedy. With the introduction of the political narrative of Barack Obama there has been a lot of talk about the word hope. I don't ever recall this word being dissected to the degree that it has been during his unlikely run towards the White House. One would believe that no other politician has ever invoked the word in an election before. So what makes it so different today than say in 1992, when a young upstart politician challenged the status quo?

Now that Mr. Reid will be making a critical decision on the FISA legislation and we need so desperately our Representaitives to be vocal about their opposition to immunity, let's be clear about where Kucinich stands:

"I object to any immunity for telecommunications companies and demand a full accounting of these companies' involvement to Congress and to the American public. When corporations cooperate with the government to strip people of their Constitutional rights, that is a text book description of fascism. There must not be any place in America for this type of conduct."
                                                -Dennis Kucinich