Clinton Allies May Dump Millions into a "Stop Obama" Group

The Huffington Post has the story, reprinted here. I have endorsed John Edwards and sent what little money I can to his embattled campaign. But I much prefer Obama to Clinton. We do NOT need a dynasty or to return to the '90s! Ironically, the strategy outlined in the Huffington Post article (to not contest much in South Carolina or Nevada, and save money for Super Tuesday, while using 527 groups to go massively negative against Obama and depress voter turnout) is straight from the Karl Rove/George Bush handbook. It was actually outlined on MSNBC yesterday by Joe Scarborough, a former Republican Congressman and Bush speechwriter! This kind of cynicism and dirty tactics is what is destroying our democracy.

So, will a desperate Hillary Clinton use "Swiftboat" tactics to sink Obama--whose campaign is bringing in young voters, and expanding the Party by winning independents--in other words, is putting new health into the democratic process? I hope not. I hope that wide publication of this possibility will stop it in its tracks. If such a tactic succeeds and Clinton wins, she will do so at the expense of driving the young to the GOP or back to citizen apathy, of increasing cynicism and distrust of the process. And, it would almost certainly encourage Michael Bloomberg's delusional Third Party run which, unlike Ross Perot's '92 effort, could bring in not a Clinton, but another 4 years of a war-happy Republican.

Since Kentucky's primary is not until May, the only way we can help stop this is by (a) sending money to either Edwards or Obama's campaigns and (b) contacting all our progressive friends in the states voting on 05 Feb. (Primaries: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Massachussetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah. Caucuses: Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, New Mexico) and warning them of what may be coming.