I refined my previous post into a brief for this week's Phoenix. Here's the bottom line:
This is what the Democratic presidential contest has come to. Factcheck.org concluded, in contrast to some Obama supporters, that the Clinton campaign did not darken her rival’s skin color in a campaign commercial. Yet there’s little doubt that a “kitchen sink” strategy, in which Clinton threw anything and everything at Obama, is what helped her to climb back into the Democratic fight.
Considering this, her surrogates can be counted upon to continue their use of a variety of shady tactics.
Whether these efforts enable Clinton to snatch the nomination from Obama remains to be seen. If they do, however, it could be a Pyrrhic victory, since many of Obama’s supporters will have been so alienated that there’s no way they’d vote for Clinton in November.