Good line from Obama, yesterday:
"I find the manner in which they've been running their campaign sort of depressing, lately. It was interesting in the debate, Sen. Clinton saying 'don't feed the American people false hopes. Get a reality check, you know?' I mean, you can picture JFK saying, 'we can't go to the moon, it's a false hope. Let's get a reality check.' It's not, sort of, I think, what our tradition has been."
We've seen Clinton campaigns do this to others, before -- peg the opponent in a way that seems to fit for the moment, and fit everything that happens into that box/coffin. Right now, it's getting done to them.