Posted by Lorie Byrd
Published: September 6, 2008 – 2:49 AM

Hillary in her smart pantsuit, with her 18 million voters and whatever is left of the Clinton machine behind her, didn’t scare Barack Obama. It took a small town former beauty queen in heels, skirt and chignon with a baby on her hip to do that. And there is no doubt that he is afraid of her considering how his supporters have thrown everything, including the kitchen sink, at her over the past week. Considering that in less than a week Sarah Palin achieved a higher approval rating than either McCain or Obama, drew an audience 10 million larger than that of Joe Biden (just 1 million less than Obama) and united and energized the Republican party like no one has since Ronald Reagan, Obama has reason to fear.

He announced yesterday though, that he is not going to be bullied.

“We’re not going to be bullied, we’re not going to be smeared, we’re not going to be lied about,” Obama said. “I don’t believe in coming in second.”

If anyone needs to worry about being smeared and lied about, it is not Barack Obama. The coming in second part though — he should worry

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