Years ago, there was a commercial about a tuna that looked good, but did not taste good. He wanted to be caught by StarKist because he “looked good.” Charlie, the tuna, was always rejected with a note attached to the hook that said, “Sorry, Charlie.” StarKist was not seeking a tuna with good looks, but rather for tuna that tasted good. Does America want a President that looks good, speaks well, or someone who will get the job done?
Forget about race in the Democratic primary. The press wants the American people to believe that the Clintons are trashing Obama and sending the subliminal message to not elect an African-American. No attentive person can claim that the Clintons have been negligent to the race movement in America. After all, Bill Clinton was called “the first Black president” by Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison.
The real battle is neither race nor experience nor gender. The question is who will fight the hardest to get the Presidency back and, once that happens, put America back on stable ground. On the one hand, Barack Obama is the candidate with the vision of uniting America with his great oratory gift intending to bring the parties together with bipartisanship. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton has been described as the “divisive” candidate, the one who will use her bully pulpit and political skill to get her way. The act of crossing the aisle seems very appealing in this well-divided country. Almost all Americans want this to happen.
Presently in Congress, the Democratic Party has leaders in both Houses; Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Fighters? Not even close. They have been in charge for a little bit more than one year now and have attempted the painstaking task of bringing bipartisanship to Capitol Hill. Have United States forces left Iraq? Have Americans gained rights to communicate without government ease dropping? Have big oil companies received heat for the high cost of fuel? The answer to all these questions is a resounding NO! When Bill Clinton the fighter left office the price of gas was $1.45.
When Bill Clinton was President, the Republican majority attacked him from every angle. He was a fighter. He managed to move the country in the right direction by balancing the budget, reforming the welfare system, paying off national debt, creating jobs, and stopping the genocide in Bosnia. He saved many lives without the great loss of life to American soldiers.
Was Al Gore a fighter? How about John Kerry? Mike Dukakis? There has been one Democratic fighter in the last twenty-five years. Guess who won and had one of the greatest presidencies in this era. So, to whom can Barack Obama reach out in his stab at bipartisanship? Will it be Senator Orrin Hatch who called global warming "science fiction". Or maybe he can reach out to Congressman J.D. Hayworth who said Bill Clinton was "bankrolled by trial lawyers, radical homosexual rights groups, environmental extremists ... along with almost every other left-wing wacko group you can think of." Maybe he will be able to have some agreement with Kathleen Harris who hired Choice Point to purge black votes off the voting rolls before the 2000 election. Maybe he can get Conrad Burns to take one of his constituents to task when he asked Burns "Conrad, how can you live back there with all those niggers?". He surely can work with Senator Jim Imoff who in a 2006 interview with the Tulsa World newspaper compared environmentalists to Nazis. This horrific list can continue with famous quotes from our right-wing friends.
Can Obama change the normal pattern in Washington by attempting to unite America like Pelosi and Reid? One of the few politicians who was able to reach across and get a large number of Democrats and Independents was the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan. He was the “kind man” who was able to move his Congress in his direction. The “fighters” in the Democratic Party moved aside and allowed Reagan to take our country to the right, take down labor unions, and run up the national debt more than any other president until George W. Bush. Reagan lost 241 servicemen at one time in Beirut, and not a word about his failure to find and punish the people who were responsible. He was not taken to task by his party for failing to bring the perpetrators to justice, however Clinton was crushed for not capturing Osama bin Laden after 2 years. Of course, the first terrorist group that bombed the Twin Towers during the Clinton years were captured, tried, and are currently serving multiple life terms.
Forget about race in the Democratic primary. The press wants the American people to believe that the Clintons are trashing Obama and sending the subliminal message to not elect an African-American. No attentive person can claim that the Clintons have been negligent to the race movement in America. After all, Bill Clinton was called “the first Black president” by Nobel prize-winning author Toni Morrison.
The real battle is neither race nor experience nor gender. The question is who will fight the hardest to get the Presidency back and, once that happens, put America back on stable ground. On the one hand, Barack Obama is the candidate with the vision of uniting America with his great oratory gift intending to bring the parties together with bipartisanship. On the other hand, Hillary Clinton has been described as the “divisive” candidate, the one who will use her bully pulpit and political skill to get her way. The act of crossing the aisle seems very appealing in this well-divided country. Almost all Americans want this to happen.
Presently in Congress, the Democratic Party has leaders in both Houses; Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. Fighters? Not even close. They have been in charge for a little bit more than one year now and have attempted the painstaking task of bringing bipartisanship to Capitol Hill. Have United States forces left Iraq? Have Americans gained rights to communicate without government ease dropping? Have big oil companies received heat for the high cost of fuel? The answer to all these questions is a resounding NO! When Bill Clinton the fighter left office the price of gas was $1.45.
When Bill Clinton was President, the Republican majority attacked him from every angle. He was a fighter. He managed to move the country in the right direction by balancing the budget, reforming the welfare system, paying off national debt, creating jobs, and stopping the genocide in Bosnia. He saved many lives without the great loss of life to American soldiers.
Was Al Gore a fighter? How about John Kerry? Mike Dukakis? There has been one Democratic fighter in the last twenty-five years. Guess who won and had one of the greatest presidencies in this era. So, to whom can Barack Obama reach out in his stab at bipartisanship? Will it be Senator Orrin Hatch who called global warming "science fiction". Or maybe he can reach out to Congressman J.D. Hayworth who said Bill Clinton was "bankrolled by trial lawyers, radical homosexual rights groups, environmental extremists ... along with almost every other left-wing wacko group you can think of." Maybe he will be able to have some agreement with Kathleen Harris who hired Choice Point to purge black votes off the voting rolls before the 2000 election. Maybe he can get Conrad Burns to take one of his constituents to task when he asked Burns "Conrad, how can you live back there with all those niggers?". He surely can work with Senator Jim Imoff who in a 2006 interview with the Tulsa World newspaper compared environmentalists to Nazis. This horrific list can continue with famous quotes from our right-wing friends.
Can Obama change the normal pattern in Washington by attempting to unite America like Pelosi and Reid? One of the few politicians who was able to reach across and get a large number of Democrats and Independents was the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan. He was the “kind man” who was able to move his Congress in his direction. The “fighters” in the Democratic Party moved aside and allowed Reagan to take our country to the right, take down labor unions, and run up the national debt more than any other president until George W. Bush. Reagan lost 241 servicemen at one time in Beirut, and not a word about his failure to find and punish the people who were responsible. He was not taken to task by his party for failing to bring the perpetrators to justice, however Clinton was crushed for not capturing Osama bin Laden after 2 years. Of course, the first terrorist group that bombed the Twin Towers during the Clinton years were captured, tried, and are currently serving multiple life terms.
Does this not reek of a double standard? W has not be able to capture bin Laden after 6 years; will he be held accountable? The same group of Republicans, many who are still in Congress today, attacked Clinton with everything possible and finally caught him lying about having sexual intercourse with Monica Lewinsky. Monica happened to be an adult at the age of twenty-one years. George Bush has sent many young men and women that are younger than twenty-one who haved died based on deception, incompetent intelligence, and utter carelessness.
How long will America be divided along the party lines? How long will America have politicians that would rather fight for their party than do the right thing? The answer, my friends, is when Conrad Burns and company are voted out of office by the voters of their respective states and replaced by some reasonable representatives. Until then we should keep our Big Gun, Hillary Clinton!
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Son....You need a rude awakening. I forgive you...You are young...Not even in college yet. When you get your first job and get out in the "real world", I will be curious as to how you "percieve" the world as "Brian see it".
I will pray for you young man!
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