Letters to the Editor
kenkapkk
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Double Standard
[Read the article: How Hillary Clinton botched the black vote]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What if there was a woman who wanted to run for President who was not greatly known, had only seven years of experience, was not particularly forceful on any distinguished issue or legistation (such as McCain-Feingold), supported the Invasion of Iraq, equivocated often on this and other issues, and was not particularly reknowned, such as Joe Biden, for expertise in any special area of National interest?
How much traction would this woman (or any male such candidate) generate as a viable option to the electorate? Slim and none, and slim just left town.
Hillary Clinton was able to parlay name recognition as first lady, despite a massive policy failure re health care that helped open the door to a Republican legislative landslide, to carpetbag her way to a Senatorship from New York where she had barely ever sniffed the air, to using the networks her husband had built to create a formidable campaign network, yet squandered it in an old school, misanthropic venture.
Yet her suurogates, Ferraro and others, can rap out racist remarks about Obama's race as evidence he is not viable.
Besides being racist and vile, it is hypocricy beyond measure. Sorry Gloria Steinhem, I used to respect you.
The rest of the gutter driven Clinton campaign has been well established. (In all the furor over "obliterating Iran", her lying about the NIE report somehow gets lost)
Her wretched performance and willingness to smear Obama on 60 minutes ("I guess so, If he says so") told me all I need to know about this person and her utter lack of integrity.