It was her first campaign stump since the Democratic National Convention, where she clearly hit a home run in asking her supporters to back Barack Obama. Senator Hillary Clinton made several stops across central Florida Monday, but if someone expected her to lower the boom on Sarah Palin, they would have been disappointed. Her former communications director Howard Wolfson said she wouldn't get involved in "cat fights" with the Republican Vice Presidential nominee, and yesterday, he was right.
Hillary Clinton may have said "No McCain, no Palin", but that's as far as she would go. When asked specifically about the Alaska governor, she wouldn't take the bait. She's probably smart not to. There's no reason other than the fact both are women to expect Hillary Clinton to go after Palin. Better Joe BIden, who, after all, is running for the same office, to handle the task of stopping the Palin Express.
There are also signs that former President Clinton may soon be adding his heft to the Obama effort. He's due to lunch with Obama in Harlem day after tomorrow, and perhaps stumping for the Illinois senator could be on the agenda. Sure, there was bad blood between the Obama and Clinton campaigns, but that was then. If anyone can present the case for electing Obama with a laser-like focus on the economy, it's Bill Clinton. Recent polling says Obama's margin over McCain on economic issues is slipping. Keep the campaign focused on Bush bungling and McCain's economic ignorance and Obama should win no matter what the polls say a week after Labor Day.
McCain will continue to push the notion that Obama isn't ready to lead, and is somehow so character flawed as not to be trusted. Both the Clintons can swat those arguments aside like Venus Williams at the US Open.
Will they?
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