How Tomorrow Became Yesterday

CNN debunks Bill Clinton's recent attacks about Obama's record right before the primary:
it's worth a watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOe01_ww29U

CNN debunks Bill Clinton's recent attacks about Obama's record right before the primary:
it's worth a watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOe01_ww29U

The Clintons strength has always been their ability to "REINVENT" themselves. Most notably, after the ninety four congressional elections. They lost that election to a movement, led by Gingrich. What did they do to counter this movement, they made life better for the average American.

Hillary needs to reinvent herself as the candidate for the future. She needs to stop talking about the ninety's and start telling the people about her current proposals. Is Hillary's plan going to keep the American people safe. Is her "MIDDLE CLASS" tax cut going to be "BIGGER THAN OBAMA"S? , CAN HILLARY"S plan bring factions together for the common good more effectively than OBAMA's plan for the future.Somehow you have to convince voters, that your plan for a "prosperous and peaceful" future for AMerica is "STRONGER" than OBAMA"S. You have to stick to this message. What was once the Clinton's greatest strength, in now a big WEAKNESS. "REINVENTION". REINVENTION, is one of the principles that have been rejected by voters. They do not want you to keep changing yourself. They want someone who is genuine and who does not change every week. It makes people feel comfortable. In this case Hillary has no choice but to reinvent her message and plans for the future.
What HILLARY SHOULDN'T DO,
Hillary has to avoid going negative.She should attack her opponents with her plan and not with her ego. For example she laughed at Obama and dismissed his campaign as "JUST WORDS". What she failed to realize is that his words have inspired a nation. This made her look mean and arrogant. Hillary do not be afraid of rejection.
Emphasize that your plan for the future is stronger and how it is going to improve the live of miniorities. You need to launch your new plan like a "blitzkrieg". Keep your message positive expecially in California and NEW YORK, the two states you must win.

Do not play the race card= it is a lazy way out for a hard working individual. Be honest. If you use race you will be forced to lie. Remember that the masses can see through mirages. Do not use them anymore.

OBAMA all the way!!!, for you people that are not comfortable about the fact that Barrack has taken a mass lead to this primary ,maybe it's time for you to STOP! LOOK! and LISTEN! thats all it takes rather than those silly politicians that are always making promises and manipulating the system try something new ;don't have to live your daily lives same thing everyday, let change takes is course.

Thanks Mr. Alter for your kind and compassionate piece. As a Hillary supporter and a baby boomer I am very sad that our time may have passed. It will be hard to support Obama when I really feel Hillary would be a great president but i know in the end I will. Very , very few of the supposed reporters have earned my respect through out this process and more than a few have earned my eternal disrespect. I have gone from an avid MSNBC watcher to retreating to C-Span other than David Schuster and oddly Pat Buchannan the adolescent piling on with glee is too much to bear. I truely wish that Chris Matthews would be fired for his complete lack of professionalism along with Andrea Mitchell and I have been shocked and disappointed in Olberman.

I have been in the US for about a year now, and I continue to be amazed by this media spectacle. My observatons: with a few - very few - honorable exceptions, all the so called pundits - especially on TV - have no clue. In order to grab TV time they have taken - rather squeezed into - any vacant position in the political spectrum, regardless of what they truly believe in. They are as driven and guided by poll numbers as the politicians themselves, exhibit classic herd mentality, do not say anything original, and are subjective. To boot, they are extremely defensive when somebody questions them and the methods they adopt and immediately adopt a 'how dare you question us' stance. Hillary may or many not be 'phony' and 'insencere' as the media likes to portray her. Obama appears a great candidate. But, it does seem to me that the media does not scrutinize Obama substantively on policy matters, leave alone personal. When he responds to any question in his characteristic soothing abtractions, the media seems to be satisfied and does not follow through with the same rigor that they do with Hillary. So long as they believed Hillary's nomination was 'inevitable' they treated and wrote about her deferentially but when they saw that she is vulnerable they are going after her like bloodhounds. They created the Fred Thomson myth and are abandoning him now. For them, this is all a circus that could help them garner more eyeballs, ears or readership. In this cacaphony, the American public does not get the right kind of information that it deserves.

Do you really believe that if Barack Obama is elected the world will change? Take off your rose colored glasses - they are all just people. Idealism should not rule your decision, reason and factual information should be the basis for our vote for president. We should be choosing a leader - there aren't any savior's running for election.

When is comes right down to it what have any of the candidates done that says they will fight for America? Have they filabustered in order to achieve a congressional goal, Have they had a "Disney" moment when the world stands still while they work their magic,accomplishing something for the people or are they special merely because they happen to be at the right or wrong place at the right time. Everyone of these candidates could have at any time during the Bush mess stood up and called upon citizens and politicians
to act for the good of America, the only one even close to standing up for what they believe is John Edwards, that's where I got my tools to support the troops without supporting the war, where was everyone else. Huckabee strums the guitar while rome burns, Thompson was playing at acting, Rudy was too busy with his love life, McCain needs to put his family first (I couldn't believe he would shake hands with Bush after how they treated his family, if he can't stand for them do you really think he will stand for us?) Hillary had her time in the Senate to set herself apart if she did I missed it. Obama started to run for president before he accomplished anything in congress. Everyone of these candidates has failed so I guess we just try to figure who will fail in the most painless manner. If we really are looking for change, we need someone else and I don't mean Bloomberg how pompous is he? And talk about flip flopping he can't even pick a political party and stick to it how can he unify when he can't seem to make up his mind about who he really is or exactly what he hopes to accomplish.

Obama has a lot to offer the American public beside just hope. He has been a civil rights leader and civil servant, since his college days. (This is a lot more then what most people I know do.) Also, Obama???s background is from a poor household and an absent biological father, so he has insight to what most common American???s feel today and have experienced in their own life. Isn't an understanding of the average American relevant? Shouldn???t a President understand human nature and the human struggle? Then use this understanding as an important tool for communicating to publics of all countries? Isn???t understanding how to a person needs to compromise or how to hold restraint when provoked, such as Kennedy did during the Cuba missile crisis, important and a critical for foreign politics? Obama is a symbol to the world that America is not a Texan money hungry bully scared of the big bad world, but a man who is looking for unification of the world. To bring America back from these sad Bush years of mismanaging our government. Showing that we can stand for American believes of freedom and equality, yet we stand up with kindness and diplomacy. America wants peace and harmony. We are tried of war. I know this view is a little sappy, but why the hell not! I am tried of fear and oppression. I want to believe. I want a hero. I want to be proud. I want hope. I am voting Obama!

Enter Your Comment

If you say Bill Clinton did nothing for this country, that's because you know nothing about the history. Even Greenspan said Bill Clinton was one of the best presidents of Amercian history. If our next president can achieve what Bill Clinton achieved as a president, we are lucky

The rich pay the taxes in this country by an overwhelming percentage. Immigrants come here to seek the American Dream - of making it in America, yes! of getting rich! Jimmy Carter tried to "damn" the richh people and it caused one of the worst recessions and duoble digit interest rates this country has ever seen.

Yes, I'd love to see a woman as President of the US, but not THIS woman. She is an elitist and a socialist at heart. She is also controlling and power hungry. She will make Jimmy Carter look like a piker when it comes to ruining our economy. No one wants to listen to a harpie and a shrew for 4 years, let alone 8. She is not as slick as her husband. O'Bama has probably, wisely, studied JFK. He offers hope in a very fractious contentious time in our history. Will I vote for him? Probably not. I don't want National Healthcare brought to me by the same people who brought me the DMV, but I get O'Bama. A lot of voters, young and old, would rather vote for an optimist than a woman who shrieks at us that its her turn.