Ask an Adorable Kitten: Obama's Rolling On

Dear Adorable Kitten,

I'm sure that like all Animal-Americans you have been paying keen attention to the dramatic Democratic primary race, where Barack Obama was able to declare victory yesterday after the
final primaries in South Dakota and Montana and the determinative movement of dozens of superdelegates, who are of course predominantly but not exclusively elected party leaders; but while the are any number of political calculations to be made regarding the conduct and ambitions of Hillary Clinton and her many fervent supporters, and how this may yet negatively or positively affect Obama's electoral strategy moving into the fall, I feel fairly comfortable in believing that the test of the primary may prove, in the end, far more strenuous than the General Election, which, while not to be taken lightly, confers any number of structural advantages to the Democratic Nominee.

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In other words, the defeat of John McCain in the general election may prove to be considerably easier than defeating Hillary and Bill Clinton within the Democratic Party. That alone would seem to qualify someone for the presidency.
It is clear that we have a nominee of exceptional organizational and motivational skills who possesses a political agility which only Need
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Obama is a candidate who can move deeply cynical Americans to honest tears, and, almost polar opposite to Hillary Clinton, who essentially advocated herself as the most skilled CEO, he has begun to restore a palpable movement for active citizenship.
But here is where we need your advice: will it be enough for the Obama campaign to push to extend the campaign as a movement through the general on the theory that he can build a substantive movement for progressive change within the broad mainstream based on his eloquence and organization ability? The Republican party- and this is more evidence of the pernicious conduct of the Clinton campaign - is adopting Clintonian talking points line for line, and can be expected to shower increasingly desperate bile through 527s as their weak position becomes manifest. Do you think Obama's fresh repackaging of the essence of FDR and Kennedy - a grand call to civic duty, the reality of present America and world outreach - is strong enough to overpower vicious proto-fascistic attacks on him, or do you think Obama should adopt the hard-hitting motus operendi of the Clinton campaign, and meet character assassination with character assassination, at the risk of exhausting the enthusiasm of his core constituency?

- A Concerned Democrat

Dear Concerned Democrat,

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-Adorable Kitten