Barack Obama Decides To Take Direct Aim At Hillary

My biggest question for Barack Obama as he announces that he is going to start talking about and taking direct aim at Hillary Clinton is, 'what took you so long'? All of the major democratic candidates for President have pretty much had a 'hands-off' policy when it come to attacking front-runner Hillary Clinton. In the past few months, both Barack Obama and John Edwards have used their wives to take pot shots at Mrs. Clinton while keeping the tone of their own person comments at bay. That was a huge mistake and now Barack Obama is going to take the gloves off and take direct aim at Hillary Clinton.

While I am glad to hear the news about Barack Obama going after Hillary himself, I think it is too late for him to make much of a difference in this years campaign for the democratic nomination. The best time for Barack Obama to start attacking Hillary Clinton would have been six (6) month ago when he was riding high in the polls and treated more like a 'rock star' than a candidate for President of the United States. Right now few people in democratic politics are talking about Barack Obama as a 'rock star' anymore, but instead the political wind has changed and most people think that Hillary Clinton has already won the democratic nomination for President.

While it was fun to watch Barack Obama attend political gatherings in the early days of his campaign for the democratic nomination, in recent months he has made several mistakes and has allowed Hillary to take control of the entire election process. The biggest mistake all of the democratic contenders for President have made is not attacking Hillary Clinton early and often. The 'Clinton Machine' is one of the best in politics and no one can beat them by taking an understanding and caring approach to winning the democratic nomination. Maybe Barack Obama still has time to turn his campaign around and defeat Mrs. Clinton, but with timing being everything in a political campaign, Senator Obama might have missed his best chance to win by waiting too long to go on the attack against Senator Hillary Clinton.

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