You're probably right, Amos, but she's just doing the usual political game: telling her constituency what they want to hear...and they'll believe her. You know why? Because they want to, and because superficial impressions are really all that counts these days in politics. You don't have to really BE a patriot, you just have to look and sound like one. You don't have to really BE a fiscal conservative, you just have to look and sound like one.

The disturbing facts that would harm a candidate's credibility are only sought out by those few political aficionados like yourself who are already extremely opposed to that candidate. So what happens? Basically nothing. Those who are already opposed to her find more grist for their mill. So what? Those who are naturally in favor of her pay little attention to what you have to say, because they are busy finding out their critical stuff about Obama or Biden.

In other words they're doing exactly what you're doing, only from the complete opposite persuasion.

Two separate sets of people preaching to their choir is what I call it. ;-) So predictable. It generates a lot of heat (and a lot of bandwidth on Mudcat), but what does it accomplish in the end except to reinforce a lot of existing prejudices and give people a chance to vent?