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Politics on Trial
The voters want someone new and fresh and different. She's been "out-Clintoned by Obama," says Bill Parsons, a professor of political science at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. "Every time she turns on the TV, she must say, 'Gosh, Bill, that sounds like you when you were campaigning in '92'." Allegations of draft-dodging didn't stop Clinton in those pre-9/11 days, but national security is McCain's trump card, and Parsons believes every last Republican will be there in November for McCain along with a goodly share of independents. If Obama is the Democratic nominee, the two would potentially be vying for the same voters, and "fear trumps hope," says Parsons. "Will voters go with the fear they know or with a misty, cloudy notion of hope? I understand the concept of hope, but I don't see it. I do see the fear."
McCain goes into the general election with the political equivalent of a ball and chain, tied to an unpopular war and an outgoing Republican president whose approval numbers are in the basement. Yet the polling matchups forecast an extremely tight election. "McCain is Bush with brains," says Parsons. He can make the arguments for a continued presence in Iraq, and because he's seen war in a way his opponents haven't; he will make sense in a way they can't. Whichever Democrat emerges with the nomination, nobody, not even Ralph Nader, can say the two parties don't have meaningful differences. And the stories that obsess cable-television junkies will be rightly relegated to the dustbin of history.
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Posted By: eddiewhere @ 02/26/2008 6:53:18 AM
Comment: ONE OF THE STRONGEST STRATEGIES HILLARy CAN IMpLEMET IS ATTACKING THE UNITy factor which is the driving force behind the OBAMA WAVE. WHAT HAppENS IF THERE IS A REpUBLICAN BACK LASH AFTER A NASTy presdential BATTLE. THEN WHAT? WHO WOULD BE THE most effective pRESIDENT in that scenario.
CAN MINORITIES AFFORD TO TAKE THE OBAMA RISK. WE KNOW UNDER THE CLINTON'S MINORITIES WILL pROSpER as they did in the ninety 's. THOSE WERE THE BEST OF TIMES FOR ALL AMERICANS.
LATINO'S ARE Loyal VOTERS. THEy WILL SAVE HILLARy . THERE IS GOING TO BE AN uproar because of the power and influence of the LATINO VOTE. THERE IS NO DOUBT HILLARy WILL WIN TEXAS AND OHIO.
WHEN I THINK OF HILLARy I THINK OF My MOTHER. ROCK SOLID on my side no matter what. SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHAT IS "GOING ON" AND ALWAyS HAS My BEST INTEREST AT HEART. I IDOLIZE MICHAEL JORDON. HOWEVER I WOULD VOTE FOR My MOM OVER MICHAELJORDON. WHy I KNOW HER. MOST AMERICANS WOULD CHOOSE THEIR MOM OVER JORDON FOR president.
"IN HILLARY WE TRUST" eddiewhere 2008
WE MUST, WE CAN, WE WILL
Posted By: Chapalody @ 02/26/2008 6:39:36 AM
Comment: The verdict is in. It's been an interesting trial to see whose politics the voters seem to want more. The politics of doom and gloom. Or the politics of hope and change. The new rock star or the old rock star. The new school politics or the old school politics. The intense and upset or the happy smiling delivery of politics by Obama. Hillary loves to attack Obama on his rhetoric and no action. Obama's rhetoric is the strategy behind his campaign because it contains no actions like those of Hillary. Especially with Hillary's Universal Health Care front, which Hillary criticizes Obama for because he hasn't jumped on the bandwagon, and embraced it along with her. For this Hillary has accused Obama of abandoning his core Democrat principles.
Posted By: JohnGaltlaketahoe @ 02/24/2008 6:42:26 PM
Comment: ONE CAT, ONE VOTE, ONE BEER!!!
RON PAUL, DENNIS KUCINICH, and RALPH NADER have the American electorate on their side! A BI-Partisan Congress has given the American electorate a Congress with allegiance to obstruction of justice in the Executive Branch and in THREE Offces of the Attorney General. Bi Partisan Congressional corruption and private cable networks have staged this election process SO FAR!
ONE CAT, ONE VOTE, ONE BEER!
ONE CAT, ONE VOTE, ONE BEER!