In the media there has been an effort to convince the populous that Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama are sniping at each other. This is extremely prevalent on television news programs and to a lesser extent in print media. The effort takes just about anything the two presidential candidates do and serves it up with a nice spicy drama induced meatball. Both Barack and Hilary are too well versed in providing a public persona of friendliness for this to be working. There is no way you can convince me that Hilary and Barack are barking at each other. Barack continually convinces me through his speeches and public endeavors that he is a cool customer and genuinely cares what the people have to say. Hilary is too focused and too politically savvy to willingly snipe at the other candidates of her own party. She knows going negative at this point in time will only hurt her commanding lead. It makes sense for the candidates to put distance between each other because it is politics and there is a certain amount of secrecy you want when you are associating with a political rival. Ultimately, I believe the war between Hilary and Barack is a complete media conjured story to put something new on the airwaves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/us/politics/07rivals.html?ei=5065&en=d72d70a35a50a5ef&ex=1187064000&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print
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Of course its a publicity stunt. With Hilary taking such a commanding lead in the polls, I doubt that anything she says will affect her votes, well unless shes says she supports terrorism or something.
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