So it comes about that ... Just to run this up the flag pole in a very short diary, see what the reaction is and move on.
Russ Feingold said the following yesterday:
http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/...
"I'll tell some of the (Barack) Obama supporters here today: Cool it," Feingold, D-Middleton, said Wednesday to a group of about 50 people at the University of Wisconsin Marathon County. "Take it a little easy."
The campaigns of Sens. Obama of Illinois and Hillary Clinton of New York have exchanged blows in recent weeks, and aides to each campaign have resigned after making controversial statements. At UWMC, Feingold aimed his censure at Obama supporters, saying their purpose should not be to "crush" Clinton, but at other times, he seemed to take aim at both campaigns' rhetoric.
I wonder if he's beginning to realize a danger for Barack Obama in the General Election. Some of it might be his fault. You can't divide Dems against Clintons and not pay a price. Sorry. You can't. All you can do is divide Dems against Clintons and then figure the price you're paying is affordable if what you're purchasing is independents who have also been members of the Clinton Hate Congregation.
Some of it isn't Obama's fault, or even the Obama supporters fault. The Media comparing Clinton to Tonya Harding wasn't Obama's doing. As far as I know that wasn't even something that came about from Obama supporters.
But the damage done there is still, I think, real. I tell my mom, who has disengaged herself from the process and refuses to watch any media at all at this point, "Guess what mom, they're now comparing her to Tonya Harding." You can imagine her response. I tell my wife that, and you can imagine her response.
The single most consistent phenomenon I've experienced in this campaign is my sense first and foremost that my outrage was a lonely outrage. But then I ventured forth out into the rest of the blogosphere. I consulted others in the real world and I found that the things that I've expressed on this blog has some weight in numbers.
This is as far as I go in this diary.
UPDATE/Correction: According to slash196, the Tonya Harding comparison did come from the Obama campaign.
UPDATE/Correction: According to Erik W, it's not proven that the Tonya Harding comparison came from the Obama team. That's what I figured in my diary.