'Free Obama'
And free the rest of the Democratic party and the country as well — from the old-school, mean-spirited, self-obsessed mindset that Bill and Hillary Clinton so eagerly personify.
James Carroll is dead on when he accuses the Hillary Clinton campaign of giving aid and comfort to the enemy by attacking Obama for being "different":
Clinton adviser Mark Penn's advice to attack Obama for his "lack of American roots" was supposedly repudiated, but the fake contrast between beer-swigging, Bible-believing Hillary and the elitist thin man who might be a Muslim was a subliminal exploitation of just that theme. The many Clinton supporters who remain suspicious of Obama were prepped by her campaign for the McCain pitch that this black man with the funny name and background is not really "one of us."
...[Hillary Clinton] has unleashed a dynamic that may poison the fall campaign, turning one of Obama's great strengths, an unfettered mind born of an expansive background, into the occasion of his defeat. If that happens, America will be a smaller, nastier place.
