I know that I have been relentless about pushing Obama since I was "born again" about 6 weeks ago. I am a believer. But the main reason it continues to be an item in this blog is the relentless and reckless attack on Obama by the Clinton campaign, showing a willingness to scorch the Democratic earth rather than to consider waiting until Ms Clinton is 64, 68, or 72 (if an Obama VP ran after 8 years of Obama, it would be hard for her to race against the person until she was McCain's age) to run again.

Hillary Clinton, this season, is the Harvey Weinstein of politics. People are scared to death of giving up on her because she has returned from the dead so many times that getting bit in the neck is an eternal threat. The same was true for years with Harvey and the Oscars… until Cold Mountain didn’t make it. And it’s been downhill from there.

But while you can feel the Democratic base moving steadily to the Obama camp, wanting desperately to get on the band wagon and to get enthusiastic about their New Kennedy, there is enormous restraint still going on. They don't want to be an Enemy of Bill... or Hillary. The Clintons have been THE heroes of the D-movement since The Kennedys handed over the mantle almost 20 years ago. It's hard to say, "goodbye." Especially when you know that if you say "goodbye" too early, you could wake up with a political horse's head in your bed.

Just like Harvey...

As he was heading out the door - unwilling to accept a $400 million a year budget that half the town's wannabe distributor/producers, including The Weinsteins, would kill for right now - Harvey relentlessly worked to destroy Michael Eisner's legacy, kicking and spinning and even lying to make Eisner look the fool. And it took. And all the scoreboard in the world - do you even have to start doing math to see where Miramax under Daniel Battsek is versus TWC? - will not bring back Eisner's reputation.

No one wants to be attacked so severely when they have so little to gain by playing it straight. But the big name Dems should remember... silence now is support of The Clintons. And when Clinton loses this nomination, the now-silent big-names will get no credit for flocking to the nominee's side as they have to. The time to speak truth to Clinton power is now... even as a matter of simple politics.

But I digress...

I know that I will be accused of doing exactly what Clinton is doing by running this… but let me explain my thinking.

For the last month, we have seen what are likely the worst possible attacks possible against Obama, as both the right wing and the Clinton camp do not want to see this man nominated. There have been very few attacks from the right on Clinton and the Obama campaign, until this week, has played it all very close to the vest. (The new Obama strategy of letting others speak for him while he stands by the side of the speaker, looking shy, is a little odd, but it seems to be working ok. The Richardson endorsement means more to the news media than voters, though it does undercut the “Obama can’t speak to Hispanics” argument. Standing next to the guy comparing Bill Clinton to McCarthy was odd and right on the edge. But the same guy saying that Hillary Clinton was also a patriot, as defined by BC, was the right think to say… though news is not leading with that.)

The last, last, last ditch from Clinton could come soon, with her floating herself as Obama’s VP, turning the arrogance angle upside down, and forcing Obama to say, “no,” which would take the “good guy” angle away from him and really enrage her supporters and potentially make Obama look like more of a politician than the faithful might be comfortable with. It would be destructive for all… and only Clinton’s ego could keep it from happening. If she waits until after a statistically meaningless 10 point win in Pennsylvania, it will look desperate and not work. But before… it may be the only arrow left in that quiver.

In any case, I am offering something I just ran into on Google last night. It is a highly producer, often unfair, slick attack on candidate Clinton. And if you think the attack on Obama was brutal and that Clinton has taken every hit possible, take a look… and then tell me about how much easier the attacks on Clinton will be to withstand versus Obama’s baggage of Wright and the Chicago scumbag funder and the parsed single sentences taken out of context every week to try to slow Obama’s roll.