Hillary Clinton is out on the trail for Barack Obama, but don’t expect a “cat fight” with Sarah Palin, said now-“informal” Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson in The New Republic. Editors and news executives would love to see Clinton “take Palin on,” due to the odd “obsession in our popular culture” with seeing two women fight. Well, “Clinton-Palin might drive ratings and sell magazines, but it wouldn’t be good for the Democratic party.”
It’s true that Democrats would be better served focusing on John McCain, not his VP pick, said John Riley in Newsday, but the celebrated “Palin is launching two well-covered negative tirades a day against Obama.” It wouldn’t be “a cure all, or a magic bean,” but Clinton’s hitting back at her fellow “white woman” could help Obama a lot.
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