Flaws
Let's be honest: there are three candidates remaining, one Republican and two Democrats, and many of us reading this blog would have been ecstatic to have any of the three to vote for in the last two elections. Obama is the most exciting, Hillary is the smartest and McCain is the biggest national hero. If McCain were Obama's age, and wasn't a Republican, he'd be favored right now.
Yet each of these candidates is flawed. Clinton has so many enemies that we can already taste that acrid stink of gridlock that would doom her presidency: four more years of people like Kenneth Starr and Rush Limbaugh dominating the national dialogue.
McCain is in his seventies and looks it. There is something wrong with this man's synapses. Neither of these two candidates may be able to govern.
Obama's flaws are his age and inexperience, but it's possible these are not flaws in 2008. We've seen where experience can lead us in the hands of people with little vision and no desire to understand a changing world.
But Obama has a problem right now: it's time for the backlash. News outlets, who lined up behind him when Hillary was running away with the nomination, are going to worry that the race is getting out of hand. From now on, instead of hearing about Hillary's flaws, we will hear about her basic humanity and how hard she has worked for the poor.
It's not a conspiracy. It's just the way things work when politics are viewed as entertainment. Watch for it.
posted by DAK @ 10:40 AM
2 Comments:
It's politics and all three have been expecting this venom...maybe Obama least of all, so he'd better be prepared! Hillary can take it best ~ women are strong.
I was watching a discussion on Bill Maher, and someone brought up the fact that John F. Kennedy was really inexperienced when he took office, and noted that that was one of the reasons for the missile crisis he led us into. But thank god we got out of it. I just pray that if Obama gets in, he wears a bullet proof vest and a helmet 24-7. Ditto for H.
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