The usually left leaning Baltimore Sun has an interesting editorial which compares Clinton tying Bob Dole to Newt Gingrich for the 1996 election to Obama trying to tye McCain to Bush

Many political realities speak to why the Obama campaign better have something more tangible and relevant up its sleeve than the specter of a “third Bush term.” Reality one is that as talented a campaigner as he is, experience-wise, Barack Obama is far from Bill Clinton - and even further from John McCain. Mr. Obama and his staff understand this and have taken the expected swipes at Mr. McCain over his age. Better to try to negatively define Mr. McCain before his life story - military career, torture as a POW, independent thinker, service in Congress - resonates with voters just tuning into this campaign.

Reality two: When Mr. Dole was running in 1996, Mr. Gingrich was the powerful speaker of the majority party who was not going anywhere anytime soon. It was relatively easy for the Clinton machine to infer that if Mr. Dole got elected, Mr. Gingrich would be lurking behind him, pulling some strings. But come Jan. 20, the American people have every expectation that President Bush is going to fade completely from the political landscape.

Reality three: While the Obama campaign is counting on its “third Bush term” line to be popular with the fringe left, it knows it’s a gimmick that fails to address two serious problems: “Hillary Clinton/Ronald Reagan” Democrats and a number of Hispanic voters.

If nothing else, the Democratic primary has proved that political correctness and the truth do not always go hand in hand. The vote in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky has undeniably demonstrated that Mr. Obama is not going to win a significant number of white “working-class” votes.

But there are serious warning flags on the horizon for Mr. Obama with regard to the Hispanic-American vote. As a Republican married to a Hispanic-American, I have endeavored of late to speak to as many Hispanics as possible. What I have learned is that a number of Hispanics are not going to vote for Mr. Obama - period. When history is made and a minority becomes president or vice president, they want that person to be Hispanic. To those who would claim that this observation is false, petty or even racist, I would suggest they bury their partisanship or ignorance and start asking some off-the-record questions.

Sure, some people will not vote for Obama because he is Black. But, some people will not vote for McCain because he is White. You can call it racism, but, it is what it is. Mostly, though, people will not vote for Obama because he is a total neophyte who is pushing the socialization of America, but cannot get beyond his soundbites to explain how he is going to help. The man has done almost nothing in his time in the Senate, and his one big piece of legislation, the Global Poverty Act, will take billions and billions of dollars from American citizens and give it to the United Nations to spread around the world, with no benefit for the USA.