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RedditBarack got his game back. Hillary needs a reality check.
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Clintons in Denial
Tom Hayden: Tuesday's elections show the Clintons are beyond persuasion or capable of thinking beyond their own interests.
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Dreaming Obama in North Carolina
Tom Hayden: Conversations with historian John Hope Franklin and civil rights heroes about race, memory and the possibility of change.
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Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream
Tom Hayden: By trying to inflict maximum damage on Obama, she's threatening the Democratic Party's chances for the White House. Progressives need to intervene.
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Progressives for Obama
Progressives, Liberals, & The American Left
Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover & Barbara Ehrenreich: The future has arrived: progressives can make a difference to ensure Barack Obama is our next President.
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Reviving Vietnam War Tactics
Tom Hayden: One of Gen. Petraeus's top advisors advocates a return to the global Phoenix program used during the Vietnam War.
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Washington-Based Antiwar Coalition Re-emerges
Tom Hayden: Targets McCain, Iraq costs.
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A Meeting of Minds
Tom Hayden: Thursday's debate revealed Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama as solid progressives in sync with the broad base of the Democratic Party.
Hillary needed two wins. She failed utterly. But she will not stop, not on her own.
The superdelegates should intervene and send Hillary a message. Out now.
If they don't, the supporters of Obama should step up their persuasion on those still-undeclared superdelegates to recognize the inevitable and bring this campaign to an end.
Supporters of John Edwards should push their former candidate to release his pledged delegates now, a move that might make the difference as early as this week.
Progressives should intensify the counterattack against Clinton's smear campaign against Barack's character and bogus arguments for recognizing Michigan and Florida, sending the message that her campaign tactics risk a massive defection of the disillusioned in November.
It must be understood that at least not on their own. Left to their own repetitive patterns, they will step up the attempt to damage Barack Obama so that he is rendered unelectable in the minds of the superdelegates. At the very least, beginning this week, this may mean an assault on Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground, and a twisted depiction of Obama's history of statements on the Palestinians. (On this latter point, they can run commercials of Clinton kissing Yasser Arafat's wife, perhaps coupled with footage of her landing under "sniper fire" in Bosnia. Bloggers may have to carry these messages, since Obama won't.)
The Obama forces cannot (and will not) coast to victory. In terms of issues, they should intensify the focus on the Clinton proposal for "massive retaliation" and "obliteration" against Iran on behalf of Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. That was front-page news in Toronto yesterday while receiving zero attention in the New York Times and CNN. Barack should take up Robert Kennedy's 1968 anti-poverty mission in West Virginia. Finally, his campaign needs to build firewalls in Oregon, Montana and South Dakota to maintain his lead.
