Another
James Wolcott piece worth pasting in its entirety:
I've never bought the pre-championship palaver that the Republicans were itching keen to face Hillary Clinton in the fall, that her mere presence in the race would energize their white-dumpling demoralized base into mobilizing into peasant mobs ready to storm Frankenstein's castle. The
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I fear they will eat Obama alive.
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Actually, I think the GOP would rather see Clinton die in the primaries - after taking as many hits as possible. Obama would be much easier to defeat in a general election in this enlightened country. And no matter how much they like Hillary abuse, they want to keep the Executive.
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I keep making the distinction between experience and Washington experience. Obama has experience, on paper enough to be president, but Clinton has Washington experience dealing with Republican attacks the likes of which Obama has not experienced. It is the type of experience that matters.
Much is made of Clinton voting in a couple of ways the Left doesn't like. So? Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act. JFK let the Cuban invaders down in the Bay of Pigs. FDR tried to stack the Supreme Court. If I agreed with everything a president did, that president would be . . . me! And even then, I don't always agree with myself.
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And, so far as words go, people like Clinton and Kerry were much more vocal in their opposition when the Bush administration did take precipitate action - contrary to the terms of the Authorization to Use Military Force in Iraq.
But, yeah, the type of experience makes a big difference. Apart from two absentee years as a junior senator, Obama has virtually no experience in national politics (not to mention international politics ( ... )
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An interesting anecdote though. I have a friend majoring in Math. Politics came up when we were talking one day (i had no idea where she stood) and we got on the subject of Obama. Before I could get much out she said, "He sounds rather slow, like he doesn't have much to say, and he's just stretching things out to fit a time limit. Is there anything wrong with him mentally? He pauses so much; it's maddening."
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I thought all those ellipses in Obama's speech were just him holding for applause. :) One thing Obama has learned from Rev. Wright is how to work a crowd.
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I think what we have now is two potential candidates who took us from a "sure thing" (to win the white house) to a "well, we'll see".
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Well, we'll see.
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