DISQUS

Janis Day,

Obama consistently wins the votes of more educated Americans, while Hillary Clinton is more popular among voters with less education.

Hillary has been in office for just under 8 years. Obama has been an elected official for 12. If we really stretch the truth and allow Hillary to claim her time as first lady of Arkansas and first lady during Bill's presidency, that still doesn't add up to her claim of "35 years". What I'm saying is, perhaps you should go back to school and brush up on your addin' and subtractin' before you start claiming that Hillary has the "experience". She does not.

Some other inexperienced leaders:

Abraham Lincoln: 10 years
John F. Kennedy: 14 years
Jimmy Carter: 10 years
Ronald Reagan: 8 years

The word "awoken" is, of course, my own. It means "awakened". *:o)

Jeff shew,

Here's how the next election goes: disillusioned Republicans stay home. End of story. The Republican base hates McCain, they don't like or trust Romney and they won't get the chance to vote for Hucksterbee. The fact is, even if McCain is the candidate, the Republicans don't HAVE a candidate. The Republicans are dispirited, disenfranchised and confused about where they want to go next.

All that changes if Hillary is in the race. If Hillary is in the race, they won't care if Donald Duck is the Republican nominee--they'll show up in massive numbers to vote against her. That's just a fact. Hillary CAN NOT win. She is a wedge issue unto herself. The Republicans will drag out all the old attacks to fire up their base, and it will work. Not only will it get the Republicans engaged and determined to defeat her, it will sway many Independents who don't like the Clintons either. And many Democrats will simply stay home. The Clintons will be left with the Democratic base, and Hillary will lose. No, wait, check that--the Clintons have now alienated much of the Democratic base by repeatedly playing the race card. They won't have the base either. Hillary will be defeated in a landslide and we will be left saying "President Duck" for four years.

The Clintons took a big gamble when they brought race into this campaign. Barack Obama has awoken the sleeping hopes of many hopeless Americans. If Hillary dashes those hopes, she will not easily be forgiven.

This was an attempt at humor, correct? Uhm, yeah. lol.

"I value Sen. Kennedy

Comments like the one by Michael Powe depress me beyond belief. I don't know if he's a McCain supporter or a Hillary supporter, but either way, he seems to believe that the president of the United States is some sort of an administrator--like the CEO of a corporation or something of the sort. This is exactly what we DON'T want the president to be. The president has aides for that sort of essential, but distracting nonsense. The job of a president is to set and articulate the course for the country during his or her term in office and then guard that course. The president is the big thinker. The decision maker. Being president is about leadership--not administrative duties.



Winson Churchill famously said, "The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." We can no longer afford to be simply average voters. We need to be far more curious, far more critical, far more skeptical, far more active and much better informed if we expect to dig ourselves out of the mess our current administrator has put us in. Let's stop listening to the mass-mailed, idiotic lies we receive in our Inboxes every day. Instead, let's pay attention and get to know the candidates--all of the candidates--before we put someone in office who knows their way around Washington, but who can't think outside of the box we've allowed ourselves to be trapped in.

Jeez! Bitter Hillary supporter much? It's amazing to see how easily you people have turned against Kennedy now that he's thrown his support to someone else. What happens if Al Gore endorses Obama? You gonna register as a Republican?