Barack vs. Hillary - It's Getting Nasty

Funny to observe how the US primaries have degraded into a slap bitch rally. Barred from expressing real animosity the candidates resort to rather convoluted ways of delivering blows to each other - and victims fall shortly, but that's the calculated risk.

First, a senior member of Obama's campaign staff quits over her saying that Mrs. Clinton is a "monster who would stoop to anything". In fact, that's something so close to truth and possibly devastating to her chances as a presidential nominee that Obama was willing to sacrifice a Harvard professor just so the message would be heard by the masses. Just when the spin doctor-orchestrated tear-dropping routine made Hillary appear just a little bit more human, everybody is reminded that in fact she is not. Nice move, Barry!

Then, in a counter-blow, Hillary's campaign adviser quits over her remark that "Obama would not be ahead in the race for the White House if he were not black." That is an even meaner (well, you deal with the Clintons here, dude!) and much more substantial jab to Obama's post-identity positioning as neither Black nor White. That's the best way to steal the White votes - in a seemingly innocent and nonchalant manner.

I am pretty sure there will be more smiling-face kicks in the crotch in store for us as long as these primaries run. Two major predators have crossed their paths and those are paths of war!