Drawing the Line

It has come to our attention that Obama is going to bring out his big gun to neutralize Sarah-cuda.  From the NYTimes an hour ago, we have this, Obama Camp Turns to Clinton to Counter Palin:

ST. PAUL — Senator Barack Obama will increasingly lean on prominent Democratic women to undercut Gov. Sarah Palin and Senator John McCain, dispatching Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to Florida on Monday and creating a rapid-response team to deploy female surrogates to battleground states, Obama advisers said on Thursday.

Mrs. Clinton’s campaign event in Florida, her first for Mr. Obama since the Democratic convention last month, will include a forceful response to the searing attacks and fresh burst of energy that Ms. Palin injected into the race with her convention speech on Wednesday night, Obama aides said.

This is a career ending move for Obama for countless reasons.  Let me enumerate a few:

!.) Let me get this straight, Sarah-cuda beats you up and steals your lunch money and instead of standing up for yourself, you write a little note about how she hurt your feelings as a community organizer and you send out another girl to fight your battle.  Er, OK.  Will you also be sending her out to do business with the Russians, the North Koreans, the health insurance biggies?  How about if she does all the debates for you too?   Because if you need Hillary to do all the fighting on your sorry ass behalf, then maybe she should be nominee.

2.) Your damn surrogates in the blogosphere have been raking Sarah Palin over the coals for 6 days now.  6 Days!  No panty was left unsniffed, no ovary unexamined, no uterus unexplored.  You have done the same crotch shot of Sarah Palin in 6 days that it took the Republicans 8 years and $40 million dollars to do to Hillary Clinton.  And Sarah still kicked you in the junk and gave you a wedgie.  And guess what , Barack.  We *liked* it.

3.) It won’t do you a bit of good.  We LOVE Hillary Clinton and we want you to treat her with respect.  If you send her to Florida to kick in Sarah’s teeth, we will see it as a mark of disrespect for her.  She is a brilliant politician and a dedicated public servant, not your personal gladiator.

4.) She would do this for the party and the Democratic principles that she believes in.  But after this primary season where she was treated so horribly by her own party, we are beginning to think that Hillary and Bill Clinton are the only ones in the party who still *have* any Democratic principles.  Now, she will write a brilliant and probably very convincing speech as to why we should not support John McCain and Sarah Palin.  And she would be right if the party she represents weren’t composed of a bunch of middle aged white sexist men.  We want to get rid of those middle aged sexist men.  We will be voting for downticket Democrats who represent our values.  But we won’t be voting for you under ANY circumstances.  If the party finds itself in a pickle now with an unelectable nominee, then we have a suggestion for it:  CHANGE THE NOMINEE!

5.) It is time Hillary Clinton stopped being a doormat.  If it’s campaign debt that keeps her indentured to you, we’ll have as many fundraisers as we need to to pay it off.  But there is no reason you need Hillary to go after Palin.  Get Richardson to do it.  Or Dodd or Edwards.  Ahh, but it has to be Hillary, right?  Because otherwise it looks like these guys are attacking a female.  What does that suggest to us?  Well, to me it means that you got a problem with women.  Color me shocked.

If Hillary is out there reading, don’t do it for him.  Or if you must, stick to the Conflucian rules: No character assassination and no rumormongering without evidence.  Actually, we can trust you to behave honorably but it’s the creeps you are promoting who won’t.  So, ask yourself, where do you draw the line?

For us, this is it.