Take a moment and read this:

The campaign did not have to go in this direction, all you had to do was join Barack Obama, not in Town Hall meetings, where you would have been upstaged by your rival's charisma, use of the English language, and youthful appearance, but in renouncing the Politics of Hate which cost you personally the election of 2000. This Campaign could have been run on the issues of the day including the Iraq War, the Economy, and the direction of the Country and its place among the Nations, but no.

No, sir, you had to hire the very same organization which accused you of fathering a 'black child' all those years ago, who provided the country with a candidate and a President who shredded every fiber of the fabric of America. You may well have won this election if you had appealed to middle-of-the-road voters who at one time, inexplicably it turns out, had what they called 'respect' for you and those who craved 'experience'. If you had won, you might have united the country once again and brought the two extremes toward the middle. you had little to lose: the right-wing of your party has always hated you in the worst way, and they will continue to do so. They despise everything about you and of course you know in your heart of hearts that the accusations of your collaboration with the Enemy in Vietnam came from those on the Right, not the Left, the accusations of adultery, philandering, leaving your badly disfigured wife who had awaited your return from North Vietnam (for which Ronnie and Nancy spat on you), and all the other spears thrown at your persona and your campaigns, emanated from your 'friends'. the Left, for some reason, gave you a pass.

Now you are faced with a paradoxical situation: if you lose this General Election you will be remembered as a duplicitous, inconsistent politician, whose life will have been divided into quarters: your callow youth, your P.O.W. years, your "maverick" age, and this, your lying liar time. You will be finished in every sense.

If you win, you are in real difficulty: you will have no Honeymoon, no friends, and most interestingly of all, no answers. Your Presidency will be referred to as the era which was 'almost as terrible' as that of your Predecessor, George W. Bush, the most hated President in American history - yes, the most hated because with Nixon, it was conceded that he was a bright, well-informed man with severe emotional disturbances. You will not be treated so kindly.

You are on the cusp of the greatest decision of your life: whether to go after Senator Obama on a personal basis. If you decide to do so, it may be the most ill-conceived decision of your life which has contained many.