HRC/RNC tag-team score with "soft" bigotry [POLL]

Watching the MSNBC Decision '08 crew unpack last night’s voting results, it was hard not to notice panelists Joe Scarborough and Patrick Buchannan rising up in their seats, fidgeting with glee, at the successes achieved by the Clinton campaign’s "fair use" of good ol' Atwater/Rove-style politics.  Showing their Republican colors, these two were obviously delighted by how big a dent all the "soft" bigotry recently aimed at Obama managed to make.  

HRC’s campaign, in tandem with the Republican right, has torpedoed Barack for the past couple of weeks with: "Hussein, Hussein, Hussein;" Farrakahn and Rezco; the "turban" photo; "NAFTA-gate;" the "3AM scare;" and, Croft: "You don't believe that Senator Obama is a Muslim?" --  Clinton: "No, there's nothing to base that on... as far as I know."  

"So, yeehaw!," Joe and Pat more-or-less exclaimed.  "It’s working! And just wait! Hillary’s negative tactics are nothin’ compared to how hard the RNC will hit him, if this guy survives the primary campaign."

Hillary’s ties to Monsanto, alone, had already soured my view of the NY Senator and her politics.  But this latest, "as-far-as-I-know"-business . . .

What's next?

It looks to me like Hillary is closing ranks with the corporatocracy to quash the real threat posed by Obama's candidacy.  An Obama presidency protends something so much more like actual, "we-the-people," participatory democracy.

In a recent interview on NOW, with David Brancaccio, Joe Trippi said this:

Barack Obama could be the first interactive president, the first network president, a president whose network of people out there, when he says, "We're gonna pass health care this week, and these are the congressmen I need you to talk to and convince that we need to pass this thing," and it's all—it's all this bottom up way to get his agenda passed. You're gonna see the move to an interactive, connected—politics where the people, in connection with their president are actually moving the agenda forward.  [link]

Wow!

Do we really want a democrat in the White House who is beholden to corporations like Monsanto, and gets there by exploiting all the latent bigotry and prejudice in this country?  Or do we want someone in the Oval Office who is poised to become "the first interactive president?"