I am mixed with feelings of anger and sadness about Senator Clinton. I remember about two years ago when there was first talk about Obama running, I hadn’t decided on a candidate — and when I did decide on Obama, it wasn’t out of anything I held against Clinton, but just because I thought Obama was a better candidate. I still respected Clinton and thought that even if Obama lost, which at that time seemed likely, I would still enthusiastically support her.
Now she has reduced herself to a caricature. I’m very upset at the way she has run her campaign — running less like a fellow Democrat and more like a right-wing Republican, with these nasty, take-no-prisoners attacks. Really upsetting.
To be honest, the way that she's taking Obama's comments, twisting them, and exploiting them really irks me.
Yeah, he should have chosen his words better. But for her to level charges of elitism and condescension at him is really rich.
And he was just speaking the truth. Granted, I wouldn't advise him to say it as he did, and it is not a politically advisable thing to say, but it is the truth. At least he doesn't tell boldfaced lies about being under sniper fire and then try to claim he "misspoke".
Then for her to go out and talk about how church-going and gun-loving she is... and can't even answer a simple question about when she shot a gun last... give me a break. I thought Gore was bad at pandering... goodness.
That's not the way we should decide presidents, based on how much they go to church and how often they shoot guns. Our president should not be someone who I want to have a beer (or a shot and a beer) with. It shouldn't be someone who talks about how much they love God or how
much they love killing animals for fun on weekends. That is what got us our current president.
I think I need a shot and a beer just to listen to her anymore. You know, I had respect for her, and I still do in many ways, but I am really angry at the way she is conducting her campaign.
But she might be doing him a favor in the long run. The more of these challenges that he has to go through will make him stronger for the general election. Sure, the repubs will hurl all the nasty Rovian tactics that worked for them in the past, but he is proving that he is not going to just grin and take it like those before him did.
And this flap doesn't appear to be damaging his poll numbers. He still holds a solid lead among Democrats nationwide. That's going to be hard to argue against with the superdelegates, especially if she also loses both the delegate and popular vote count. All of her negative campaigning is just going to make it harder to heal after the convention. Yes, she has every right to stay in the race and to campaign vigorously. But the negative way in which she is campaigning and her obvious pandering is really hurting the party more than it helps her.
There are so many issues that are of much greater importance in the daily lives of most working Americans. It distresses me greatly that instead of talking about the war in Iraq, about health care, about balancing the budget, about education, about people losing their homes, we are talking about wearing flag pins. Is this really what our political process has come down to?