Is Obama Another Dukakis? By Christopher Hitchens

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I read an article in the paper the other day that had a very good point. It said that the first rule of a successful campaign/candidate is to stay on point. Never deviate from the message. If your point is say that the sky is red, then that is your answer to every question, no matter what the question, just get that one point across.

The article went on to say that the Democrats have not stayed on point/message. The latest evidence is the way they were thrown off by the whole Sara Palin thing. They should have stayed on point and ignored all the hoopla, but they didn't.

Now, I saw Hillary Clinton give an interview on CNBC today about the crisis on Wall Street. The interviewer wanted to wrap up the interview on a lighter note and asked Hillary if she thought the idea of equating women with lipstick in the campaign was demeaning to women. Hillary answered that she thought the Democrats should be in the White House in January, that we could not take any more of the same from the Republicans. She went on and on and finally said that she wears lipstick. I immediately thought of that article, no matter what the question, stay on point, the sky is red. Hillary at least has apparently learned the first rule of campaigning. It may not have been enough to get her the nomination, but she stayed on point.