I don't disagree completely with you but I still don't trust Obama. Not all republicans are supportive of Obama. They don't want Hillary because she is a stronger adversary than Obama. He has too many secrets and skeletons that makes him a liability not a credit. Plus he could not win the states which win the White House. She has 8 to his 2 possibly 3. That is a huge statement for the superdelegates. Primaries not caucuses wins the general elections. Our election will pretty much be done by the time it hits the Midwest.
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When Obama finally jumped into the void, he spoke of the need for party unity before talking about the subject he really wanted to debate: John McCain. "I'm confident that both Sen. Clinton's supporters and Sen. Obama's supporters will be supporting the Democratic nominee when we start engaging in that general election," he said, referring to himself as a strangely out-of-body experience.
Clinton talked about getting her supporters to back the ultimate nominee, suggesting that she didn't really see herself as the ultimate nominee. "I will do everything to make sure that the people who supported me support our nominee," she said.
That was enough of the happy unity talk. The inexorable logic of this 15-month-old primary season is that both candidates are locked into their past statements, previous positions and year-old arguments. They debate because they don't want to be seen as avoiding debates. And they campaign because that's their sole present occupation.
To pundits and the press, debates are about who gained the upper hand and whose performance was marginally better. Real voters may be looking for something more meaningful—such as an insight into character or policy that was unknown or unexpected. After 20 debates, such insight is desperately hard to find.
Clinton needed a game-changing moment, as she has since Obama opened up a sizable lead through 11 straight election wins in February. Judging by Obama's consistent poll advantage nationwide, it didn't happen after Obama's preacher's sermons came to light, and it didn't
happen after his small-town comments last week. It didn't happen in Philadelphia on Wednesday, either.
Clinton opened a newish line of attack on Obama's connections to William Ayers, a former member of the Weather Underground. But Obama was more than ready for her criticism, pointing out that the connection was tenuous and that Bill Clinton had pardoned two former
members of the same defunct terrorist group.
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