Letters to the Editor
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Obama has played the exact same game as Hillary
With due respect to the earlier analysis that Obama is claiming to be an outsider and that the game of politics needs to be changed, perhaps some stark comparison is in order.
NOTE: I have always stated that Hillary is potentially too polarizing to be able to win the presidency to anyone I have discussed politics with, to be clear about my opinions.
Hillary Clinton received her law degree from Yale.
Barack Obama received his law degree from Harvard.
That is exactly the same Ivy League insider game, as far as I can tell. What you do after law school truly determines whether you choose to play the insider game.
Regarding job credentials since their graduate work:
Barack Obama worked with civil rights law, voting rights, and law regarding community organizers. He was a faculty member of the University of Chicago Law School. He was in the Illinois State Senate for three terms. He is a first term Senator for Illinois in Congress. His wife is a lawyer who has worked on marketing law and intellectual property law, as well as having been a salaried board member for a corporation that is a large supplier for Wal-Mart.
Hillary Clinton worked with children's rights law, patent infringement and intellectual property law. She was a member of the Watergate impeachment inquiry staff (no jokes, please - I am being serious regarding her credentials). She was a faculty member of the University of Arkansas School of Law. She worked as a full partner in her law firm while she was the First Lady for the state of Arkansas. She was the First Lady for the US for 8 years. She is a second term Senator for New York in Congress.
Therefore - given age differences and spousal job differences, if I look at those credentials on paper, dispassionately - there is no particular difference I can see regarding someone being an insider in the political process between these two individuals other than length of time. Since Hillary is approximately 13 years older than Obama, the length of time is not unexpected and does not prove or disprove anything. Arguably, both have been in elected positions for the same length of time. Both their spouses are lawyers and have either been involved in politics or in positions of power in corporations.
Hillary has been in politics longer than Obama - but as earlier stated, that has to do with a 13 year difference in age and her husband's choices. One could argue that Obama has comparable issues with his wife having been a board member that had to resign her position when he made a critical comment about Wal-Mart due to corporate politics.
I think the "change" issue with Obama is a catchphrase, like anybody else that runs for president. I believe the evidence shows no appreciable difference between either candidate regarding whether or not someone is playing the "insider game" vs. someone coming from "outside".
In a much shorter statement - Obama is just as much an insider as Hillary. As far as I can tell, to believe otherwise is naive.
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Why Hillary Is So Dislked....
.....has nothing to do with gender. She has run a sleazy campaign full of lies, distortions, and ridiculous rants. She will apparently do or say anything to get the nomination. She lacks integrity.We don't trust her. We have come to disbelieve whatever she says.
At this point, all we can believe is that winning is more important to her than the good of the party or the nation. I can only hope she willl continue to lose votes, delegates and credibility. Anyone this ruthless and reactive is a danger, not a leader.
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@Eileen Potocnak Arno
Does Obama lie as much as hillary?
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Winner Take All!
Whoever wins the Democratic nomination will be confronted with the Republican dirty tricks, no matter what John McCain says. It only makes matters worse for the Democrats to continue to grind their ax for the candidate that they support. The way these primaries have sorted out the two Democrats continue to be too close in electoral votes, Obama predominantly winning the caucuses and Clinton predominantly winning the open primary States. Let's stop pushing our personal agendas, and our personal candidate preferences, and acknowledge that the problem for the Democrats is in the system. The system that the Democrats use to determine their candidate for presidency is broken, and must be changed.
But what do we do now? Well, obviously the Democrats knew that there might be a problem like this one, and that's why they created the "superdelegates." Let's let the system that is in place now play itself out. Let's not play into the opposition's (Republicans) hand by labeling it as unfair. It is the system that we have for better or worse. And let's unite behind the ultimate Democratic candidate, even if they win by one vote. Because the alternative is having John McCain as our next president, and the continuation of the Iraq war for 100 years, and a continuation of tax cuts for the wealthy, and not having health care reform, etc., etc., etc.
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Does America really want someone prone to hallucinations in the WH?
Reviewing Hillary's methodical playing of the "Race card", and "The Perpetual Victim" against Obama; her inability to control her own campaign finances; and, her recent commentary on: Iraq; Pakistan; Energy Policy; her stated intention to confiscate the profits of American energy companies; the need for her to control the 14 Trillion $ American Economy from her White House Politburo, since she has declared the free-market to be a failure (this from a woman who hasn't managed so much as a corner vegetable stand, or for that matter her own marriage; but, of course you could count Whitewater, and her tenure as "Madam" and Bimbo Containment Chief for Bill's White House Brothel); her Marxist statement in San Francisco: "We're going to have to take more from you, and give it to others for the common good."; Illegal Immigration; Taxes; Infanticide; Massive new Government spending; Multi million $ Senate earmarks for supporters of Hillary's Presidential campaign; Garnishing of your wages to fund her coveted Socialized medicine program; a fanatical advocate of confiscating all civilian handguns; and, the Clinton's history of emasculating the military, verifies that this grievously flawed woman would be the female version of the Jimmy Carter debacle that gave us the Ayatollah Khomeini who ushered in rampant Islamic radicalism; block-long lines at our gasoline stations; a severely hollow military; and, a record Misery Index. Only much worse. Considering all of Hillary's recent gaffes, e.g. "I voted FOR IT (referring to the Bankruptcy Bill); but, I was glad to see that it didn't pass."; her hallucinations over "Landing under intense sniper fire in Bosnia."; misrepresentations on NAFTA; or, her fantasized role in the Irish Peace Process; and, her increasingly frequent crying jags, one has to wonder if excessive use of Botox has affected her mental stability. It's no wonder that her campaign staff is shielding her from reporter and audience unscripted questions. The prospect of Madam Hillary as President; in a word: TERRIFYING. Greg Neubeck