If you believe your candidate is the inevitable nominee, why bother griping about their rival?

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At some point, those folks who are still wasting our time with their daily diatribes about something Hillary Clinton said or did need to be held responsible for their own neglect in focusing their efforts on the general campaign against McCain they claim she's keeping them from.


Pretty good debate on Iraq going on between Sen. Obama and McCain over the past few days . . .


"I think that if I'm going to Iraq, then I'm there to talk to troops and talk to commanders. I'm not there to try to score political points or perform," Obama said Wednesday. "The work they're doing there is too important."

Obama said he was considering visiting Iraq after Sen. John McCain had suggested that the two should make a joint trip to the country, a proposal Obama dismissed Tuesday as "nothing more than a political stunt."

Bill Burton, Obama's spokesman, said "it seems odd that Sen. McCain, who bought the flawed rationale for war so readily, would be lecturing others on their depth of understanding about Iraq."

Burton also said a joint trip by the two candidates would not provide a "real debate" about the Iraq war.

"The American people don't want any more false promises of progress; they deserve a real debate about a war that has overstretched our military and cost us thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars without making us safer," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/29/obama.iraq/



Bush and Cheney out on the campaign trail, shilling for McCain and lying about Iraq . . .

NEW YORK (AP) ― Vice President Dick Cheney warned Thursday that a Democrat-led troop withdrawal could condemn a future generation of American soldiers to return to the Iraqi battlefield.

http://www.sunherald.com/447/story/593370.html



. . . but, instead, let's talk about what Hillary Clinton is doing. How is ranting about her campaign supposed to be helping the 'inevitable' candidate advance against McCain? If you're supporting Obama and you're still spending your time here ranting about Clinton, you've got no room at all to complain about anyone holding up your candidate from his 'inevitable' challenge against the republican nominee. I'd suggest spending some time promoting what your candidate is promoting. He's certainly not wasting his time denigrating his Democratic rival at every opportunity as the bulk of his supporters do here.






Senator Barack Obama gestures while talking to students at the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts in Thornton, Colorado, May 28, 2008.