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• Posted By: NewsWkDickG @ 05/06/2008 5:38:07 PM

  Comment: If Hillary Clinton (the Clintons) becomes the Democratic nominee, the American people simply will not have a good choice in November. The policies, positions and programs offered by her and Barack Obama are not significantly different and their contrasts with John McCain???s positions are near identical. Where there is remarkable difference is in their personalities and in the hope offered for getting things done to benefit other than Special Interests and a select few and to have other than more Washington as usual. Hillary (and Bill too) has demonstrated throughout this campaign and her career a propensity to say/do anything that she feels will benefit her, without conscience, guilt, apology or hesitation. She has been aggressive, arrogant, dishonest, self-focused, belligerent and ready to offer anything at any time with her only criteria being that it is to her advantage. In the past she has shown that all that matters to her is her prestige and personal gain, ignoring her husband???s indiscretions, excusing her own dishonesty and accepting any advantage she can get. She attempts to present all of this as being strong, as being a fighter but it is literally divisive and, as shown throughout her career, it really handicaps her in getting things done. Much like George W. Bush, Hillary exhibits a strong, sociopathic personality that says everything is about her and, as we have seen, that is nothing but trouble. Should Hillary Clinton get the nomination then the choice in November will be to continue with more of the same GWBush policies (McCain) or more of the self-centered GWBush style personality (Clinton). Really not much of a choice!

• Posted By: "Martin Edwin "Mick" Andersen @ 05/02/2008 10:44:13 AM

  Comment: MEMORANDUM BEFORE THE SUNDAY MORNING TALK SHOWS ...
  
  The Wright controversy allowed critics of Barack Obama to lay into his judgement, his political instincts and reaction time, and his temperament.
  
  This Sunday, the chattering class will be intensely involved in a post-mortem of the controversy, and might find it profitable to ponder an example from American history.
  
  "[He] had no spontaneity--no emotional nature ... He was never a man of gushing feelings.
  
  "[He] shrank from controversy as a general rule--hated quarrels, hated to say hard & sharp thing of any man ...
  
  "He was slow to form his opinions. He was deliberate, cool & demanded the light of all the facts surrounding the case. When he formed his opinions he was firm, especially about questions of justice [and] principle ... [He] had unsurpassed reasoning powers. His logical faculties were great ...
  
  "[His] statesmanship [lay in his] adherence to principle. He studied where the truth of a thing layand he acted on his conviction. He looked far into the future and was philosophical, true, scientific, in his inductions."
  
  The opinion expressed above was held by Supreme Court Justice David Davis and the Illinois politican he was talking about was the same one for whom he had organized a successful presidential campaign in 1860--Abraham Lincoln.
  
  Only time will tell if, once in office, Barack Obama will show the same wisdom that his fellow prairie lawyer Abraham Lincoln did.
  
  But the gathering storms we are confronting as a nation suggest that such wisdom we will need.
  
  Obama's promise is that, like Lincoln, he is cerebral, eschews petty politics, is "slow to form his opinions" and demands "the light of all the facts."
  
  Obama, like Lincoln, possesses great "logical faculties", and he has shown he is firm on questions of justice and principle.
  
  After all is said and done, Sen. Obama's promise remains great, and is fuelled by the phrase he like to invoke of Dr. King's, the "fierce urgency of now."
  
  It is something one hopes the chattering classes will take into account, as they assay the political landscape and the hopes for our country.

• Posted By: Sherrysue @ 05/01/2008 7:26:50 PM

  Comment: the Clintons are outrageously self-serving and will do anything whether it be crooked or not to push themselves back into the white house. God help America if this happens.