Next Stop: New Hampshire
Cromwell, CT: I wonder if other baby boomers like myself felt that the Obama campaign was sending us "out to pasture" ... that we were the past. We are not. Young in spirit and determination, we will support a Hillary win!
I don't think he wants you to shuffle off this mortal coil just yet.
Brooklyn, NY: Any opinions on how Edwards affects the race? Better for Hillary or Obama???
Good question, and very hard to guess. Has he helped in debates - landing punches when Obama doesn't? Or has he hurt by piling on?
Holtsville, NY: How do you explain the backstabbing that goes on at this stage within parties and then once the nominee is announced, they make nice and become a runningmate and teammates? How is that productive? Why don't they save all the money and present a unified front? or at least limit the pool within the party.
I dislike the idea of limiting anything in an election. But primaries are supposed to be a unifying process - building a party and then reuniting around a single candidate. That's healthy, isn't it? As long as it goes according to plan.
Edmond, OK: It seemed to me that Hillary Clinton rebounded due to the fact that she used the ultimate female weapon....the threat of tears. Also, the idea that she is being ganged-up on by the boys club is supposed to make women sensitive to her. First of all, once Hillary decided to get into this race, she knew that she would be the only woman. So why is it that she keeps falling back on the "Boys" are ganging up on her? Why is it that she is able to use the "female" card for sympathy without any backlash?
We'll see if there's any kind of backlash, as you put it. My guess is that the Clinton folks are feeling pretty good about winning. They are already talking about their momentum - even though they managed to blow up the entire momentum theory of politics last night.
Concordia, MO: I just love how early this campaign started up. My question is, which candidate do you think that this early start benefited/ benefits the most?
Having worked over Christmas and the New Year, I can tell you that it doesn't benefit reporters.
St. Louis, MO: Do you think the average voter recognized Hillary's attempt to tap into Obama's message by shifting to pronoun we from pronoun I and recruiting young people to stand with her on the stage? If so, to what effect?
Very subtle. I like your pronoun analysis. Let's just say the staging of her election night speech in New Hampshire was much better than her speech in Iowa.
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Posted By: toddless10 @ 01/09/2008 1:09:01 PM
Comment: We shouldn't measure how we vote for someone just because they kissed the cheek of a small child, or paid out thousands of dollars to help people in Katrina, because they were a powerful Senator for a few years, instead we should measure our votes out to people who have the same morals as us, who know what the guy down the street wants, we should vote for someone who can live up to the responsibilities of being President, who can just a normal person who happens to decide the fate of our nation, who can justify their actions and make all people believe in them. Hillary, in your book may be all of these, but she hasn't won my vote. I still see past the little smirk and the pants suit and see someone who has been weak in the past, and will carry that on for the future.
By the way, everyone should do their research before entering the polls, my question to you is how? When there are over 300 million people in our nation, 200 something that can vote, how can you reach every single one of them? A lot of people can't afford any type of technology. I think our candidates should focus more on education, not just in school, but LIFE education. They should focus on helping those families keep up with a fast pace world, either financially, or emotionally. Find a way to get rid of the national debt, and start having a positive cash flow and be able to have plentiful money to help those in need, and I'll vote for you. Until then, we have to rely on the media to tell us whose better than who, we have to rely on our friends who tell us what candidate did what, we have to rely on what information we have to decide who our next president is going to be.
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Lastly, why is this tunneled vision? I want to critize all candidates, but Hillary just sticks out like a sore thumb, sorry. Instead of saying that we should vote for someone just because a lot of people say a lot of bad things about them, and we should give them a pity vote, we should question why are we voting for this particular person and not that one? I challege you to ask yourself what makes Hillary better than any other candidate?
Posted By: toddless10 @ 01/09/2008 1:08:34 PM
Comment: lol, hurray for generalizing New Hampshire. I'm actually pretty sure that the majority of New Hampshire isn't independent thinkers and doesn't do their research. I do not believe they are independent thinkers because they wouldn't vote for Hillary, in fact they more than likely wouldn't vote. They are voting because someone told them to, and they were told that their vote actually makes a difference. This is the only time that a person's vote actually counts, and then, not really. As far as the final vote, we have the Electoral College to tell us who our next president is going to be. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying doing go out and vote. Please do, for then it's not such a burden on your representives to pick for you, they have a more general consensis on who to vote for, and also they wouldn't want to upset the people that put them there hence putting their job on the line. From a capitolist point-of-view the government has a very good chance of being extremely corrupted. Why does it take MILLIONS of dollars to get votes!? Go give Abraham Lincoln millions of dollars (or a few thousand back then) and see what he does with it. I don't think he would spend thousands of dollars on making shiny little buttons that say vote for me.
Yes, Hillary has made several accomplishments throughout her life that make her highly qualified to be our next president. However, do we wish to have someone who has been corrupted on the larger scale? This year, there really isn't any good candidates. Whose fault is that? Our fault. We put too much of our lives into politics that we get clouded of the real reason why we are argueing and bickering. We are trying to elect a leader, not a person who "teared up" at the thought that "omgosh, I MIGHT actually lose." We should want a person who says, "O.K. I'm down, this sucks, perhaps I should just get back up and try again." You don't need to make a big scene of it. Of course, this big scene was allowed to take place because of our lovely media. (Don't get me started on our media.)
Newsweek doesn't need to do a cover story of HIllary, nor any other candidate. Why you ask? Because there are already hundreds of stories. Heck, Hillary has made a book of her own. You should read it.
Posted By: jimc1967 @ 01/09/2008 12:44:35 PM
Comment: I wonder just how sincere the "tearing up" really was. Hillary Clinton is sometimes derided for being calculating, and carefully orchestrating, her political actions. In fact, only last week analysts were talkiing about her fake laughs and forced smiles at campaign events, and a Hillary biography released just last October focused on how she intentionally is emotion-less in public. Both she and Bill Clinton are known for keeping a close check on their public persona's. I don't want to sound like a hater, I suspect she may have even rehearsed it the night before. Did anyone actually see tears in her eyes, or was it simply a quiver in her voice?