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What I have found disturbing about the conduct of the campaign overall is not so much any negativity, but rather both an overfocus on the short term coupled with a profound lack of long-term or contingency planning.
The McCain pseudo-endorsement and the "3AM phone call" ad are but small examples of this - focused on defeating Obama, the Clinton campaign seems not to be considering that they're handing the GOP weapons for the GE. Another was the utter lack of planning beyond Super Tuesday - anticipating no other outcome than total victory, they let Obama outwork them on the ground in 12 states.
To my mind, this habit of assuming things will go according to plan could be EXTREMELY troublesome in a POTUS, in a place where almost nothing goes according to plan.
Obama has to date shown superior organizational skills to either Clinton OR McCain. Obama has not, like McCain, required financial CPR (fiscal responsibility, anyone? Thought the Rethugs were supposed to be GOOD at this), and the fact that his organization has consistently outdone Clinton's on the ground would seem to reflect well on executive competence. One would expect, with Clinton's claims of experience, that she would have a better organization than she's shown so far.
Much of that problem, meseems, rests with a disturbingly Bush-like tendency to value personal connection over competence, as Joe Klein pointed out last month in Time, and we've seen how well that's worked for Mr. Bush...:shrug:
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