Yeah, I know. You're thinking she wouldn't be where she is if she wasn't the wife of former President Clinton. But to be a wife of a President you have to be a woman.
I am tired of Hillary and her team trying again and again to point out that Obama is black. Bill emphasized it to the white racists in South Carolina. Ferraro, someone I never thought of as an attention whore, points it out as we head to Southern primaries.
Whatever Hillary's political beliefs, she is a Republican with a Republican attack machine. And she's losing votes among the few holdouts I know.
My wife, very liberal, wanted to vote for Hillary. She presented a strong female choice. But she watches what she does and says and keeps comparing her actions to George W. Bush. "That's what Bush would do," is a frequent refrain in our house. But my wife wasn't ready to cross over and vote for Obama.
That changed about a week before the California primary. She began reading and watching speeches given by Obama. He wasn't attacking. He wasn't being (very) negative. He was... inspiring. It reminded her of how she felt back in the early nineties about Bill Clinton. He was critical without being negative (for the most part.)
Now, my wife is convincing all her nursing co-workers to vote Obama. She keeps asking if they want four more years of the Bush presidency. She's not talking about policies and laws that would be passed or not passed. She is speaking about the essence of the two people, Bush and Clinton. The core essence is to say what they think people want to hear regardless of the truth. To fearmonger. To be secretive. And power at any cost to feed their insatiable egos.