On the other hand, we have this from the husband of the self Proclaimed Warrior Princess who wages perpetual war against all Republicans.

January 25, 2008
Bill Clinton: John McCain and Hillary are 'very close'
Posted: 06:45 PM ET
Hillary Clinton and John McCain are very close, Bill Clinton says.
Hillary Clinton and John McCain are very close, Bill Clinton says.

(CNN) — If Hillary Clinton and John McCain become their party's presidential nominees, the general election race is likely to be a love-fest.

At least according to Bill Clinton.

Campaigning in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Friday, the former president brushed aside suggestions his wife would prove to be a divisive nominee for the Democratic Party, pointing out how she has successfully worked with Republicans in the Senate — including one of the current GOP presidential candidates.

"She and John McCain are very close," Clinton said. "They always laugh that if they wound up being the nominees of their party, it would be the most civilized election in American history, and they're afraid they'd put the voters to sleep because they like and respect each other."

The comments may not be welcome by the McCain camp — which yesterday faced fire from several of its rivals for winning the backing of the New York Times — a longtime archenemy of conservatives.

Sens. McCain and Clinton last met publicly at an ABC debate earlier January, when presidential candidates of both parties shared the same stage. The two were seen exchanging pleasantries, and a Clinton side said she told the Arizona senator he’d done a “good job” staging a comeback in New Hampshire. He asked that she say hello to Bill Clinton for him.

We know we'll have our work cut out for us battling McCain, and I'm glad the DNC is doing some research. But who is working to resolve the hurdle ahead regarding the question of seating the Florida and Michigan delegates? I'm not the only one who sees big problems both with changing the rules in the middle of the game (which is what Clinton is proposing) and disenfranching the voters of these key election battleground states (which is what Obama supporters want to do). The best solution is probably going to require new caucuses, and those will take significant time and money to plan. What's the DNC going to get that to happen? It can't wait, and I'm getting more nervous every day worrying that this election might blow up because of this issue.

This is good and proactive...with all that money that's been collected, I would hope the DNC would spend some of it on McCain.

It's sort of funny, in a twisted sort of way. The Democrats have two really terrific candidates, and the Republicans don't. Period. And yet, by virtue of having two great candidates, the Dems might be hampered in attacking the one lousy candidate the Republicans managed to scrounge up.

The longer the Democratic Nomination draws out, the more Obama and Hillary will dominate the news cycles. As long as they keep it positive there will be positive effects for the Democratic nominee once it is decided. McCain, on the other hand, will be relegated to back page stories, as pointed out in an earlier post.

This is free publicity and face time to sell the Democratic policies and candidate that the Republicans and McCain are not going to be receiving. Obama, for the good of the party as a whole, should accept more debates with Hillary. The extra 2 that he has so far is a good number so that people don't get turned off by over exposure.

At this point it is better for Hillary to stay in the race until June and then bow out after Puerto Rico allocates its delegates. They should have one or two debates after Ohio/Texas/Vermont prior to Pennsylvania and then one or two after Pennsylvania. Each debate should be like the last on, i.e. generally agreeing with each other while pointing out acceptable alternatives on how to achieve agreed upon policies.

This will provide a positive image of the Democratic Party with free national exposure while the Republicans are, in their best case scenario, remaining quiet as McCain tries to piece the extremely divided base back together with a very likely scenario of being publicly fracturing and falling apart. This will create a contrast that will reflect very well towards the Democratic Party and help encourage the groundswell of positive feelings for the Democratic Party as a whole. Which will further translate to more pickups on down ticket races.

This whole mess would be cleared up easily if Hillary would just admit the inevitable and drop out of the race.

Break out the flip flopper signs. Nothing better than hitting that douchebag with an accurate version of the Rove crap from 04.

"At this point it is better for Hillary to stay in the race until June and then bow out after Puerto Rico allocates its delegates."

"This whole mess would be cleared up easily if Hillary would just admit the inevitable and drop out of the race."

It's amazing to me how BHO supporters are blinded to reality and counting HRC out.

"It's good stuff. But once McCain secures the nomination, which could come any day now, he will obviously begin consolidating the GOP behind him and will get a big jump on the Dems as a general election candidate."

Don't be so sure.

Obviously McCain will TRY to consolidate the GOP, but I'm starting to seriously wonder if he can do it. The debacle in Washington could prove to be the worst thing to happen to either political party since 1972 and if McCain can't keep his fingerprints off of it, he's in serious trouble.

McCain basically gave the finger to every single voter and every single state that went for Huckabee and those are a lot of the ones the Republicans were seriously counting on for November.

Look at it this way: 60% of Kansas voters went against their likely nominee and for Huckabee before Washington happened and none of them are going to be more pleased with McCain than they were before. Huckabee's vote comprised over 30% of the Kansas electorate and the ones that aren't upset are absolutely furious.

McCain can try to placate them as best he can, but I think a lot of Huckabee voters are going to be in the mood to teach McCain a lesson.

Enough to vote Democratic? Maybe. But certainly enough to stay home in November. The GOP state leader in Washington may have single-handedly destroyed the "Southern Strategy".

Now if McCain does manage to put out the fire in Washington and the Democrats start one of their own at the convention, they'll be in trouble, but as it is, McCain is in an extraordinarily weak position and many of the "red states" that nobody believed were in play finally are.

I'm not saying McCain can't win, but nobody, especially him, should take his support by rank-and-file Republicans for granted.

I think it's probably about time Hillary apologized to David Shuster.

MC, My overarching point is that where the remarks are unquestionably vile (by either side), the DNC can and should play a constructive role in condemning the comments. I know that there were claims circulated by Obama campaign (Amaya Smith, South Carolina Press Secretary, Obama for America) of, as you put it, "racist statements from surrogates and Hillary herself." But read the memo again; its all spin, and its sick and bizarre for people to even suggest that Bill and Hillary Clinton are racists. You help no one when you make that argument. Its absurd.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/12/obama-camps-memo-on-clin_n_81205.html
I give Sen. Obama credit for condemning the racial/ethnic slur made upon the Indian-American community by his campaign.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E2DF133FF93AA25755C0A9619C8B63
The DNC should be just as proactive.

Sorry about the multiple posts. The system kept saying that the post was rejected, once for password, once saying the I wasn't logged in/valid user name. It really needs to be tuned.