More Signs of Obama Ascendancy?

Mariel sees signs of Obama's rise in a GOP hit piece. Well, here's another one: Hillary Clinton's campaign is actively trying to dig up dirt on him. This isn't a shock -- campaigns dig up dirt on their opponents all the time, and even in June there were reports of the HRC camp setting up a Obama gossip-mongering site. But it is interesting for two reasons:

First, it exposes Hillary's utter hypocrisy in her pious preaching about the "politics of personal destruction" (a subject about which she and her husband could write the authoritative manual). This is the sort of phoniness, as Jonathan notes in his response to Earl, that makes Hillary so unpopular among so many.

More telling, though, is this e-mail that Hillary dirt-digger Bob Nash sent out looking for the goods on Barack:

From: Bob Nash To: Sent: Sun Dec 09 Subject: BARACK

HOW ARE YOU ?? I AM FIGHTING HARD >

SECOND ARE YOU PEERSONALLYAWARE OF TH EWORK BARACK DID ON THE SOUTH
SIDE WITH COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION S , ETC ./. BOB

WHAT DI DHE DO AFORE HOW LONG AND WITH WHO ??

PLS TELL BOB HELLO BOB

Bob J Nash
Deputy Campaign Manager
Hillary Clinton for President Exploratory Committee
4420 N. Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22203

All-caps is e-mail's telltale sign of a nutcase. Apparently to work on the HRC goon squad, you need to be a little ... unhinged.