They are just doing them a favor, being attached to Obama come November will only help them. If being connected to Obama hurts anyone they wouldn't have had a chance anyway.

TPM needs to be talkling about Rev Wright-
After Barack Obama gave his big race speech in mid-March, I noted that the Illinois senator had thrown his own grandmother under the bus to defend his controversial pastor. Well, Wright proved over the last few days that he would not be outdone. He not only threw Obama under the bus, he chucked much of the liberal and mainstream media under there with him. If this keeps up, he's gonna need a bigger bus.
For six weeks, Obamabots have diligently argued that to so much as mention Wright is in effect racist. Obama and his defenders have repeatedly insisted that the bits from Wright's sermons that got wide circulation last month had been taken "out of context." His infamous sound bites were grounded in concrete theological or factual foundations, they claim. He was quoting other people. He's done good things. Nothing to see here, folks. And so God bless Wright because he's left all of these folks looking like morons.
Let's start with the news out of his speeches Wright, Obama's mentor and former pastor, is worse than we thought. He's a bigot.
On Sunday in Detroit, he explained to 10,000 people at the Fight for Freedom Fund dinner of the NAACP -- an organization adept at taking offense at far less racist comments from nonblacks -- that whites have an inherent "left-brain cognitive, object-oriented learning style. Logical and analytical," while blacks "learn not from an object but from a subject. They are right-brain, subject-oriented in their learning style. That means creative and intuitive. The two worlds have different ways of learning."
Blacks even have better rhythm, Wright explained.
Then, Monday morning at the National Press Club, Wright was asked does he stand by his "God damn America" statement?
Well, yeah. He explained that until American leaders apologize to Japan for the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as to black Americans for slavery and racism, we will remain a damnable nation. What about that bit about America's chickens coming home to roost on 9/11? Yep, we heard him right. "You cannot do terrorism on other people and expect it not to come back on you; those are biblical principles," he explained.
Asked whether he stood by his assertion that the U.S. government created HIV as part of a genocidal program to wipe out the black race, Wright mostly dodged but ultimately offered this nondenial denial: "I believe our government is capable of doing anything." He also offered a zesty defense of Louis Farrakhan -- "one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century" -- and dismissed criticism of Farrakhan as an anti-Semite. To cap it off, Wright threw Obama under the bus. First, the pastor explained, Obama himself had taken Wright out of context. Moreover, Obama neither denounced nor distanced himself from Wright. And, besides, anything that Obama says on such matters is just stuff "politicians say." They "do what they do based on electability, based on sound bites, based on polls." So much for Obama's new politics.

Now that the republicans are gearing up attacks on Barack Obama, wouldn't it be nice if Hillary stopped attacking him?

Hillary AND Obama going full-out against McCain would be nice to see. At least then there would be an advantage to having a drawn-out primary for a few more weeks.

That would be an excellent start to re-unifying the party.

Groovy? Laughing my arse off!

BREAKING!!!! McCain has his own Bacon problem:

John McCain was in Wedding Crashers (2005) with Kathryn Joosten who was in Rails & Ties (2007) with Kevin Bacon!!

John McCain is CLOSER to Kevin Bacon than Hillary!!

John McCain is practically MARRIED to Kevin Bacon!!

John McCain must drop out now!

I think Obama throwing his Grandmother under the bus only to get thrown under the bus by Rev Wright is really the definition of groovy.

Don't overlook the bashing of Pelosi here either.

Just curious, how far back in time does the Mississippi GOP want us to go? To the 1950's? To pre-suffrage days, perhaps?

and also some real potential for using Barack Obama's name to poison down-ticket Dem chances.

Dude. Seriously. I mean these people use any Dem to "poison" down ticket races. This is not new. The Dem nominee could be Santa Claus and they'd try to use him. (Santa Claus wants to give presents to EVERY girl and boy with YOUR tax dollars. Travis Childers refuses to condemn Santa Claus.)

Travis Childres wants to be a part of the Jesus Christ administration. Jesus Christ wants you to sell your possessions and give to the poor. Jesus Christ wants you to love your enemies. Jesus Christ associates with a known prostitute. Travis Childres and Jesus Christ--bad for Mississippi, bad for America.

ZOMG! GROOVY?!?!?!?!

That was the funniest damn thing I've seen all week. This ad is proof positive that the RNC is both insane and scared shitless. They will lose big this year, and Obama's fundraising will bleed them dry.

Groovy, man. Groovy.

A sign of things to come for Obama.

The GOP/McCain have not so much as looked in Hillary's direction in weeks. Obviously they're trying to help her as much as they can.
That said, Obama has had a terrible month. If he manages to win Indiana I would be very pleasantly surprised. He's got to turn this thing around quick though.

Another reference to Obama having the most liberal voting record in the Senate.

Groovy wasn't groovy even when it was a current state of affairs. I guess the ad is targeting people 60 and over who think they know what a scary psychedelic world it might have been 50 years ago.
As far as Republican tactics in the south, though, it's nothing out of the ordinary, so it must work.
Isn't this the region that ran billboards of the gay affianced couple, one guy in a wedding dress, saying this was the world a Kerry win would deliver?