Please remember that the New York Times endorsed Hillary Clinton for President!
Carole ____________________________________________________
The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.
Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.
If nothing else, self interest should push her in that direction. Mrs. Clinton did not get the big win in Pennsylvania that she needed to challenge the calculus of the Democratic race. It is true that Senator Barack Obama outspent her 2-to-1. But Mrs. Clinton and her advisers should mainly blame themselves, because, as the political operatives say, they went heavily negative and ended up squandering a good part of what was once a 20-point lead.
On the eve of this crucial primary, Mrs. Clinton became the first Democratic candidate to wave the bloody shirt of 9/11. A Clinton television ad — torn right from Karl Rove’s playbook — evoked the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, the Cuban missile crisis, the cold war and the 9/11 attacks, complete with video of Osama bin Laden. “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen,” the narrator intoned.
If that was supposed to bolster Mrs. Clinton’s argument that she is the better prepared to be president in a dangerous world, she sent the opposite message on Tuesday morning by declaring in an interview on ABC News that if Iran attacked Israel while she were president: “We would be able to totally obliterate them.”
Complete NY Times Editorial here.
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DidcotMan, Didcot, England
Here's a sample of what's in store for you and me now:
Iraq, US troops there for another 100 years, by McCain's own admission. Admittedly they'll be dying in lower numbers but still, two killed per day for 100 years is another 73,000 brave but dead American heroes. And your tax dollars (not mine) being sunk into a corrupt and inefficient system? Well don't try to add all up all those millions on your fingers and toes, how many stars can you count in the night sky?
Healthcare. Millions of Americans, yes millions, will be left at the mercy of uncaring health-care providers when they could have been rescued under a more enlightened system that Obama would have brought about. And you think we Brits have bad teeth, you have no idea what's in store for you.
Terrorism. Yup, that one will affect me as well as you. A hard-line US President will inflame fundamentalists and push potential allies in the world's hot spots into the hands of extremists. Instead of containing them geographically and cutting off their support, they will once again roam the world finding targets.
It's the economy, dumbass. The plundering of the American economy will grow apace, and it will be the working class who will suffer the most. High fuel prices, high interest rates, high food prices, low wages AND jobs being exported with illegal migrants coming in and taking what's left? Here's the wall, there's the writing, read it.
The sad thing is that a President who would have brought much needed common sense, and real hope, will still be serving as a powerless Senator. And I don't mean the one that tells lies.
Hope You're Wrong, DidcotMan
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