Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself

Why should candidates be polite to each other? They're seeking the highest office in the land but to get their they have to drag their tongue across the ground from one end of the country to the other and maybe, just maybe they'll be president. That's what Bill Clinton did in 92 and Gore did in 2000 and Bush did in 2004. Barrack Obama, who is enormously gifted but is a more visionary concept than politicican, has not been forced to do that. He has worn the mantle of hope and promise and whatever very lightly, effortlessly. He promises change and not much else and the press swoons. Hell, I swooned. The guy's definitely got something. But then Bill Clinton challenged him. Bill Clinton is the best politician in the last 60 years--at least. He and his hard-to-like wife have studied history and what ails this country far more closely than any other candidate in the field, including the clearly-green Obama. They believe that she in conjunction with he could do a better job running this country than Obama. If they were to simply roll over and die as the media and certain members of their often pussilanimous party are urging them to do, they would not be good politicians and they would not be the Clintons. This last two weeks has reminded how rivetting and tough the clintons are--tough in a way democrats seems pathologically unable to be. Obama is a better candidate for Bill's attacks. And Bill Clinton is still the best there is. If he not his wife were the candidate this wouldn't even be close. Let them fight and stop whining about who's being mean and dishonest. It's an election for christsakes. it's got nothing to do with anything other winning.

I am wondering the motive behind former President Clinton's remarks about Senator Obama...supposedly to benefit his wife's campaign...could it be that there might be some sort of resentment about his wife's running for the highest office...a position that he filled for eight years...is he really trying to undermine her campaign? This would not be the first case a husband undermining a wife's efforts to accomplish something for herself.

I had hoped this year's campaign would not be a repeat of past rancor, pettiness and division. In the main, except for the Clinton canidacy, it hasn't been. Bill Clinton doesnt' get the fact that he has harmed his wife's campaign. I could never vote for her as I could see what would transpire. Yes, it's past time for a female President, but it takes one who made it on her own and not because she has "married well". There is no 35 years of experience.

I'm with Caroline, Ted, Patrick Kennedy and and ever growing number of Democrats, Independents and even a lot of Republicans. Barack Obama not only inspires hope but has a track record of reaching across the aisle and getting things done both in Illinois and in Washington. This is just what we need and yes "I'm Fired Up and Ready to Go".

Bill always has been his own worst enemy. Now he is Hilary's.

The man is an untreated sex addict. The disease of addiction, whether the use is alcohol, drugs, sex, or gambling, is much more than just obsessive thoughts of using and compulsive use even in the face of negative consequences, The disease of addiction includes symptoms such as arrogance, distorted thinking, inability to learn from one's mistakes, and most importantly, denial that there is a problem.

For an untreated addict, even if the actual use stops (and it never stops for long) the other symptoms are still in evidence, and perhaps even escalated, because the addict is unable to medicate his/her problems with their substance of choice.

George Bush, an alcoholic and cocaine abuser, displays the same symptoms of arrogance, distorted thinking, inability to learn from his mistakes, and temper outbursts as Bill Clinton. Isn't 16 years of untreated addicts in the White House enough?

And on the subject of Hilary, who is married to an untreated addict, has she received any treatment for her codependency? We have had two untreated codependents in the White House in recent memory, Ford and Carter. While both were men of integrity, ultimately neither could make the tough decisions when needed, and neither will HIlary. And she will be too distracted making excuses for her husband's poor behavior to do what is needed for the country.

Both Clintons need treatment. The kindest thing we as voters can do for them is not allow them any more power. Not unlike an intervention, a defeat might force them to examine their choices and make changes in their lives.

Bill Clinton is not a statesman or an attack dog. He is an untreated sex addict, and needs our compassion as well as our insistence that he not be allowed to influence the country's future in any way.

I don't condone sleazy political tactics but they seem to have become the norm for the past 8 years. No matter how hard they try the Clintons will never be able to rise to the level of sleezyness as that achieved by George Bush, Karl Rove and Dick Cheney. Go Hillary!!!!

Nobody seems to think "basics". If this is the campaign, won't the White House be like this? Say what you will, it's shaping up to be a co-presidency if Hillary gets in. It's not fair, but sure looks like those fears are panning out. I won't vote for Hillary now. Bill's done it himself.

As a life-long Democrat, I am sad to say that the recent bitter attacks and counter-attacks between the Clintons and Senator Obama have in fact had a profound impact upon my thinking. I will not vote for the Senator from New York if she is the party's nominee. I simply won't vote. I am old enough to have voted many times against the lesser of evils. I am tired of caving in that way to what seems to me ultimately a very cynical way of being, which we as a nation need to try to change. I realize such a decision may entail letting all the poisons in the mud to hatch out, so to speak. (Letting a Republican president appoint the next Supreme Court justices, for example.) Dostoevsky (I think it was) once remarked that every country has the politicians it deserves. Just so. We can change things, though, and that is by not caving in to the contact-sport, gradualist politics, devoid of vision, that the Clintons seem to be practicing.

Bob Rice, Westford, VT

This is reality TED KENNEDY IS GOING TO ENDORSE OBAMA. CLINTON CANNOT CONTROL HIS URGES and THIS IS WHY GORE LOST the 2000 election. CLINTON feels that the media is taking the presidency away from him and his wife. It is this entitlement that is very worrisome to me. Bill needs to realize he messed up in a big way and that there are consequences to his uncontrollable urges. He has scared the democratic base with his wife's racial campaign. The only thing keeping the CLINTONS a float are the LATINO"S. As soon as OBAMA starts tapping into this vote he should be able to pull of the nomination. THE CLINTON"S ARE JUST TO polarizing.

Too many scandals, to many investigations. I do not believe they are guilty in all those scandals I just believe AMERICA needs a change from the establishment. We do not need a years worth of divisive campaigning. IT would be amazing to see McCain vs OBAMA. A GOOD CLEAN HEAVY WEIGHT FIGHT. NO ONE GETS THEIR EAR BIT OFF. A ROMNEY CAMpaign would be just like BUSH"S very divisive and full of lies. IF AMERICA CHOOSES THESE TWO CANDIDATES to represent their respective parties they I think the AMERICAN political process can begin to heal and set an example to the rest of the world. WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE ARE WE SENDING IRAQ'S and AFGHANS. IF we promote racial divide why shoud they give us the benefit of the doubt about ABU GRADE and BLACK WATER. ARE WE REALLY RACIST CAN IT BE THAT THE CLINTON"S ARE A REFLECTION OF OUR SOCIETY. DIVIDE people so we can get a hold power because we are entitled to it, no one else is caThis is reality TED KENNEDY IS GOING TO ENDORSE OBAMA. CLINTON CANNOT CONTROL HIS URGES and THIS IS WHY GORE LOST the 2000 election. CLINTON feels that the media is taking the presidency away from him and his wife. It is this entitlement that is very worrisome to me. Bill needs to realize he messed up in a big way and that there are consequences to his uncontrollable urges. He has scared the democratic base with his wife's racial campaign. The only thing keeping the CLINTONS a float are the LATINO"S. As soon as OBAMA starts tapping into this vote he should be able to pull of the nomination. THE CLINTON"S ARE JUST TO polarizing. Too many scandals, to many investigations. I do not believe they are guilty in all those scandals I just believe AMERICA needs a change from the establishment. We do not need a years worth of divisive campaigning. IT would be amazing to see McCain vs OBAMA. A GOOD CLEAN HEAVY WEIGHT FIGHT. NO ONE GETS THEIR EAR BIT OFF. A ROMNEY CAMpaign would be just like BUSH'S very divisive and full of lies. IF AMERICA CHOOSES THESE TWO CANDIDATES to represent their respective parties then I think the AMERICAN political process can begin to heal and set an example to the rest of the world. WHAT KIND OF MESSAGE ARE WE SENDING IRAQIS and AFGHANS. IF we promote racial divide why shoud they give us the benefit of the doubt concerning ABU GRADE and BLACK WATER. ARE WE REALLY RACIST CAN IT BE THAT THE CLINTON"S ARE A REFLECTION OF OUR SOCIETY. DIVIDE people so we the CLINTON'S can attain the power we are entitled too and so rightfully deserve after my conduct in the OVAL OFFICE. No one else is capable of being president. I will become nasty and play the race card because the "MEDIA" is trying to take away the presidency from me and my wife.

The coveted endorsement of TED KENNEDY " is a huge blow to New York Senator Hillary Clinton, who is both a senatorial colleague and a friend of the Kennedy family. In a campaign where Clinton has trumpeted her experience over Obama's call for hope and change, the endorsement by one of the most experienced and respected Democrats in the Senate is a particularly dramatic coup for Obama"Milligan 2008

'Kennedy believes Obama can ``transcend race'' and bring unity to the country, a Kennedy associate told the Globe. Kennedy was also impressed by Obama's deep involvement last year in the bipartisan effort to craft legislation on immigration reform, a politically touchy subject the other presidential candidates avoided, the associate said".Milligan 2008

Clintons get far with lies.

Do people really take her talk of experience seriously, since she was unemployed before the Senate for two decades? Just imagine if you tried to put your spouse's job on your own "resume." That employer would laugh you out the door, or think you are the biggest liar. And if they made any foreign connections (she's not really personality plus in real life) in the 90s, all those foreigners would not be in office now. They are probably dead.

And on economics... Bill Clinton is no expert. He did have an expert working for him. We need that expert, not the Clintons. Please folks no more embarassing scandals for our White House. Any candidtate can hire that expert, Joseph E. Stiglitz, read about him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiglitz#Stiglitz_in_Washington_.281992_-_2000.29