The Clintons’ Patronizing Strategy

The Dem's and the people who manipulate the news are so gung-ho with the possibility of either the first black or the first woman in the WH that issues are being pushed aside. Clinton's term had good economic times not because of Clinton but because of the .com boom. If people remember, anybody who crossed the Clinton's path (especially women) were maliciously attacked and savaged. I voted Clinton in '92 but could not in '96 because of the tactics used to disparage dissenters.
If Hillary is to be deemed presidential then Bill should stand down and let her handle the issues. The thing is he can not and will not. Imagine the confusion on the world stage with her saying one thing and him another.
Obama does not give the depth of respose to issues that concern me. Maybe in '12 or '16.
Everybody is so hooked on Hillary or Obama; I would like to see more coverage of Edwards.
Get off the "this is a historic race because of black man/white woman" crap and look at the serious issues facing our nation. Then vote for the BEST candidate who can lead this nation through the difficult years ahead.

Michelle Obama is not above getting involved in the fray but where is the national media coverage about this. In an email sent out today she states:


"In the last week or two, another candidate's spouse has been getting an awful lot of attention.

We knew getting into this race that Barack would be competing with Senator Clinton and President Clinton at the same time.

We expected that Bill Clinton would tout his record from the nineties and talk about Hillary's role in his past success. That's a fair approach and a challenge we are prepared to face.

What we didn't expect, at least not from our fellow Democrats, are the win-at-all-costs tactics we've seen recently. We didn't expect misleading accusations that willfully distort Barack's record.

Barack isn't relying on a former President of the United States to campaign for him.

Please stand up in the face of these new attacks. Make your first online donation of $50 today and own a piece of this campaign."

'These are completely ordinary comments' you say that Obama made about the Clinton era in contrast to the Reagan era. The minute those comments came out of his mouth my friend and I looked at each other and said ' Is he trying to gain the Republican favor and at the same time slam Clinton's achievements?' .Obama is like a mamma's boy that throws a jab and then comes home crying when the jab returned is a bit stronger. You are playing with the big boys now. I am so tired of seeing the media play favorites with Obama.

It is incredibly hard for me, even as a Democrat, to support the Clintons in any way. They have shown a lack of ethics and morality that is appalling. I have had so many people say to me "do they really think the American public is that dumb???" The scary thing is, I don't know the answer to that question.

As a white democrat woman, whose in her late 20's with parents who VOTED for Clinton twice, I am in Hillary's key demographic. I even worked on Bill's 1992 campaign before I knew what he was all about. But I can't stand Billary and will never vote for them. I find it degrading and insulting to have the first real possibility for a woman president being associated with fear politics and leaning on a man to get her in the Oval Office. I dreamed of a woman president for years and wanted to be one myself as a small child, but now I find myself sending as much of my piddly income as I can afford to Obama every month. And I wouldn't care if he was black, white, or purple either, this is for all the Clinton facists out there, who assume I give a crap about the color of someone's skin. Hillary, it's the color of your soul that matters and yours is turning as black as your husband's. At this point, I'd give one of my kidneys to see Mrs. Clinton lose this race, and I'm not kidding. PS: I agree with obama's sentiment about Regan's slick style of uniting all past the ability to even see the damage of his actions, and I am no republican.

At least Obama has the press by his side. Hillary is not only facing her opponents but also a hostile press who is head over heels in love with Obama. Since Iowa the press has been trying to coronate Obama with total disregard for the voters.

I see comments here that the Clintons played the race card -- seems as I recall it was Obama twisting Clinton's words about Johnson and MLK to make it seem like she was dismissing MLK (and by implication blacks) that got this off to a rip roaring start. And I think what got Big Bill's goat was being mentioned with Nixon in the Obama/Regan interview. Ouch. Nice dig Obama. Game on!

Here is the cold hard political reality for the Clintons. Obama has got the blacks in overwhelming numbers -- why - well the fact they are backing him in far greater numbers than any other group would lead one to believe it is based on ethnicity to a large degree. OK, they are lost. So looking at influential groups, the Latinos actually can more than off sett the Obama advantage with Blacks -- Hillary knows that. I think they call it counting noses in politics.

I think we are seeing the beginning of a new power center in the Democratic party -- Latinos as the solid block to get, that eclipses the blacks in importance.

To Alter's comments -- All voting in the democratic primaries is proportionate -- right? So his point on getting close in NJ is the same everywhere for both of them. If Hilary wins every ethnic and economic group other than blacks and affluent whites, and Latinos in the same fashion Obama wins blacks he is going to lose.

Why is that?

I have been watching this election fairly closely and I really don't know much about Obama. The fact the Clinton's can distort his positions (and he does the same to them) is that I don't think many people know what his positions are. The postions I do know -- like not requiring everyone to have health insurance because they could not afford, frankly I find bizarre. If people can't afford it, the government needs to make it affordable -- I simply don't see any way to have universal coverage unless it is well, universal.

In general, his candidacy was/is all soaring rhetoric, short on substance, and he is now playing catch-up. Maybe he will, maybe he won't. We will see, but he is going to need to sharpen up his positions along the lines of Hillary or Edwards to get my vote. .

I am sick of all of these bogus stories put out by the media demonizing the Clinton's! The author of this article needs to seriously check his facts: EDUCATED democrats are voting for Hillary because they trust in her experience and she is the only candidate that will hold up against the Republicans. Obama has no experience and no strategy! Please, Obama supporters tell me what the hell he is going to "change" as president, does anyone know!?!? I have watched all of his speeches and still have no clue!