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DarkSteven -> RE: How Many Agree? (8/3/2008 2:45:59 PM)
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You gotta be kidding.
Hillary Clinton's main claim to experience is based on being married to a President.
What's she actually accomplished? As First Lady, she screwed up the politics of a health care initiative horribly. As a candidate, she began with unsurpassed name recognition, and let Barack Obama absolutely outcampaign her in every way possible. He developed new ways of using grass roots organization and the Internet.
Once it became evident that she had a fight on her hands instead of an automatic nomination, she went negative. She whined about party rules that she had agreed to, after they turned out not to favor her, and made bizarre claims that she really won the "popular vote", which excluded entire states like Colorado that used the caucus system. BTW, she made the decision not to compete in caucus states, which Obama took handily.
Since she lost the nomination, she has vanished and refused to support the nominee, unlike Mitt Romney, who's wearing out shoe leather campaigning for McCain.
Obama has energized the Democratic party in the primaries. He has signed up unprecedented new voters, As a candidate, he has forced the African American community to examine themselves and begun dialogue about the community's self-inflicted issues.
The guy came from a single parent household, got himself a law degree, and in his forties is a contender for President. IMO, he has never assumed that his position is due to birthright and has achieved it through ambition, talent, and hard work.
I'm not sure why you consider Clinton to have solid programs to get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and to turn around the economy. Not that I think that Obama's programs are entirely workable.
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