I don't think that it surprised anyone that Hilary Clinton decided to go negative now that it looks like her position as front runner is threatened. Indeed I don't think that very many of us are surprised that she went very negative when she decided it was time to go negative. What really surprised me is that she did such a poor job of it.
For months now she has been telling us that she is the only one who knows how to fight toe-to-toe when the Republicans attack, and she assured us that she was ready. When she attacked a fellow Democrat, I expected her to show us this vaunted ability to really drive the hit home. The Clinton campaign has taken their swing at Barack Obama and to our collective astonishment, she missed.