Letters to the Editor
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Past versus future?
As a babyboomer myself I resent the implication a telegenic, eloquent Obama concluding his speech by implying HRC as past and himself as future. It seems all the media are fawning over his coronation as certainty after Iowa and now South Carolina. I dislike HRC's vote on Iraq, but she make herself clear in the debates that her position on Iraq will be the same as other democratic candidates. Why is HRC so hated by the Republicans and some of the progressive and most of the media? Everyone belittles her resume, counting her 8 years as first lady as a sinecure position, her healthcare fight in 93 as a grand failure. Yet I consider that 93 failure as her glorious moment. She tried to change an intractable healthcare problem and failed, maybe she's ahead of her time and run into a buzzsaw of vested interests and indifferent public. She has learned her lesson and now intend to continue the fight but now faced a younger opponent whose surrogates used the race card against her for any criticism she leveled against him. She's fighting with one hand tied, her husband fighting for her was considered unseemly or undignified, Just as Carter was critisized for critisizing Bush as viloating the code of dignity of ex-presidents. I only wish Carter violated the code earlier and in stronger language. HRC's claim of 35 years of service is waved away as old politics, while Barick Obama was euologized for his what? community organizer? what community did he organize? certainly not tenants without heat, his law firm may represent some community organization in gold mining the government funds, like Rezko remodeling housing for the poor except the housing is as HRC claimed slum housing without heat. Some feminist may hated HRC for staying with her man, some may hate her for what her husband did, either way she can't win. As for burying the past I remind young people some of the past are glorious and not to be dismissed casually. I wonder whether some of the young people know the history well enough to appreciate it, like the founding fathers, Theordore Roosevelt fighting the monopolies, Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. The furure does not born immaculate, it is embodied from past and present.