“…Such attacks have raised worries among Democratic strategists — haunted by John F. Kerry’s 2004 run and Al Gore’s razor-thin loss in 2000 — that Obama has not responded in kind with a parallel assault on McCain’s character.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/06/AR2008080603707.html?hpid=topnews
They are right to be worried about Obama not hitting back hard enough. As the Berbere of Algeria say, “The person who kills the lion can eat the lion. But the person who doesn’t kill the lion gets eaten BY the lion.”
