Over the last week Senator Clinton has dropped all of the incindiary rhetoric that has been apart of her attack on Obama since Super Tuesday.

Gone are the wink and nods, nothing about 'our people' and 'our issues'.

Gone is the guilt by association, Rev. Wright, Ayers and Rezko.

Gone is the baiting about 'refusing to debate'.

Gone is the attack on Obama the elitist.

Gone is the be afraid tact (3:00 call and undermining the commander in chief status).

Gone are the stump speech references to Florida and Michigan.

Gone are the references that frame Obama as primarily an African American candidate.

Bill Clinton is behaving.

The surogates have gone to the beach.

(The threads in reference to the 'nuclear option' are in reference to an article by Edsall at Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/04/c... I find his argument entirely unconvincing. To begin with his facts are wrong. Inclusion of the delegations are not going to be decided by the rules committee. Ultimately it will be decided by the credentials committee at the convention and be submitted to a vote to the floor of the convention if necessary. After publishing an incindiary post the Clinton campaign comes back and says http://facts.hillaryhub.com/archive/?id=74... we haven't changed anything and the Rules committee is filled with long long time senior officials to the party who may support a candidate but are very indipendent. Edsall then turns this around and says it confirms a 'secret plan' ridiculous. If they wanted to turn up the heat they would be making a lot of statements on the stump.)



She has replaced all of this with:



Pandering to Guam and Gas Tax Holliday. She is stressing a poplulist messages.



These are issues that are not going to hurt Obama in the General Election.

MOREOVER BY TAKING MCCAINS GAS TAX HOLLIDAY PROPOSAL CLINTON, FOR THE FIRST TIME, IS HELPING OBAMA START HIS GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN AGAINST MCCAIN.




Senator Clinton,

The rest of the electorate doesn't get it. The media won't get it until Rev. Wright speaks about it.

We get it Senator. You are doing one of two things

Either you are preparing to end your campaign http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu...

or you are committed to continue but only by using issues that will not hurt us in the General Election.

Thank you.

Fellow Democrats




If you get it and appreciate Senator Clinton going to the high ground now give it a rec to say thank you.