This is just MORE of the same super slanted mischaracterization of Hillary Clinton. She grew up in a Goldwater Republican family in the midwest and heard Martin Luther King Jr speak while in high school-- from that moment she has been working
for the rights of minorities. Perhaps you'd have to be member of her generation to fully understand how much CHANGE we brought about in our lives in a short 40 years. Obama hasn't changed anything--he's nothing but a self serving OPPORTUNIST and the BENEFICIARY of that change--she has been a change agent all of her life.
I have gone to several of her speaking appearances in PA and those of Senator Obama. She has done nothing but talk sincerely about issues--you don't get ANY sense that she feels entitled to anything. Senator Obama's speaking appearances, by contrast ARE HIGHLY ORCHESTRATED and completely STAGED. In Harrisburg PA on Sunday before the April 22 primary, he spoke at the foot of the State Capital Building. Those attending were herded onto the Capitol Steps, to form a BACKDROP for him WHILE HE STOOD WITH HIS BACK TO EVERYONE WHO CAME TO HEAR HIM SPEAK--FACING THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL TV CAMERAS. He USED his supporters as a BACKDROP. The herding of his supporters onto the capitol steps made it appear that he had a huge crowd in attendance. His campaign told the local press they expected 20,00 people to attend--and they later reported 8,000 to the same press. As someone who was there, I can attest that the crowd was not any larger than about 4,000 tops. After attending several events in person and reading the press afterwards numerous times, I realized that this has most likely been happening *everywhere* he goes. Also there was no spontaneous enthusiasm for him--it was WHIPPED up by young supporters who took the stage and conducted a super pep rally. He's the slickest campaigner I've ever seen and quite frankly, it's frightening how easily people can be duped and swayed by charming rhetoric and a super effective organization.
It was after attending several of both his and Senator Clinton's speaking appearances, and seeing his super slick, super fat cat funded operation in person that I realized that he is the most cleverly and slickly marketed candidate this country has ever seen. *HE* and his followers are the ones who have a SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT, not Hillary. All the talk about his time being "NOW" for one thing. Sorry, but from our perspective, he hasn't grown up enough, or paid his dues. She's paid her dues.
Obama, IMO, has duped his fellow African Americans, and the young (both of whom are very politically inexperienced groups)
and he has the support of the new Old Boys Club of the Democratic Party (Kerry, Kennedy et al)but he is unelectable without the support of the traditional base of the Democratic Party and they simply aren't easily fooled. The reason he can't win the OLDER vote is that we've lived long enough to be able to see through the manufactured HYPE that his campaign has orchestrated and have also lived long enough to know that change is something that comes slowly with dedicated effort. Hillary, though she is certainly not perfect either, has been out there making a dedicated effort since the age of 15.
Also in her speeches, she spoke personally to her supporters ABOUT ISSUES. She actually DISCOURAGED personal adulation--whenever the audiences clapped, she did not capitalize on this as he did constantly but simply tried to get back to talking about
her plans to address problems that we face.
She also said nothing negative about him--while he completely TRASHED HER in every audience appearance I attended. That's WHY he's lost me entirely as a supporter in the fall.
As a individual, I can only go on what I saw and observed. His events had the atmosphere of a Rush Limbaugh radio program--simple slogans his followers PARROT repeatedly, resembling brain washing for people who can't think for themselves and like to be herded into a group and told what to do.
If you did a psychological assessment of the personality characteristics of Hillary supporters versus those who support Obama, as a psychologist I can guarantee that you would find that her supporter exhibit far more independence of thought.
Also, he is the one running the negative campaign, poisoning his supporters minds about HER--he does it every time he speaks. The media has been HUGELY biased--and it's a plain GENDER bias, nothing more.
She is the SCAPEGOAT--blamed for the colossal STUPIDITY of the new Old Boys Club (Kennedy, Kerry) choosing to run Senator Obama against her--without even being bright enough to run a simple survey of Democratic voters to see HOW MANY were dedicated supporters who really really wanted Hillary Clinton to be our next President. How stupid can these men be??
Also, whatever you think of Hillary Clinton that doesn't change the fact that Obama is also IN BED with the ethanol industry, ADM in the mid-west and highly funded by many PACs while duping his young idealistic supporters into thinking he is so pure and noble. (Read Harper's Magazine "Barack Obama Inc. The Birth of a Washington Political Machine") :http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/11/0081275
Finally he is not an UNITER at all--the fact is he TOTALLY DIVIDED the entire Democratic Party by choosing to run against her--AND NOW THAT IS BEING BLAMED ON HER ALSO. If he were a uniter, he would have worked WITH HER and the Democrats could have taken the White House for 16 years. Instead, he and Teddy Kennedy and John Kerry--the new Old Boys Club thought they could just disregard HER and the people who support her. Well, they have figured wrong.
THEY SPLIT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BY SUPPORTING HIM TO RUN AGAINST HER. Colossal ego/hubris on their part.
John McCain will win this fall if Senator Obama is the nominee, because a huge component of Hillary supporters will become McCain Democrats, or support Nader. We're tired of being overlooked.
This is just MORE of the same super slanted mischaracterization of Hillary Clinton. She grew up in a Goldwater Republican family in the midwest and heard Martin Luther King Jr speak while in high school-- from that moment she has been working
for the rights of minorities. Perhaps you'd have to be member of her generation to fully understand how much CHANGE we brought about in our lives in a short 40 years. Obama hasn't changed anything--he's nothing but a self serving OPPORTUNIST and the BENEFICIARY of that change--she has been a change agent all of her life.
I have gone to several of her speaking appearances in PA and those of Senator Obama. She has done nothing but talk sincerely about issues--you don't get ANY sense that she feels entitled to anything. Senator Obama's speaking appearances, by contrast ARE HIGHLY ORCHESTRATED and completely STAGED. In Harrisburg PA on Sunday before the April 22 primary, he spoke at the foot of the State Capital Building. Those attending were herded onto the Capitol Steps, to form a BACKDROP for him WHILE HE STOOD WITH HIS BACK TO EVERYONE WHO CAME TO HEAR HIM SPEAK--FACING THE NATIONAL AND LOCAL TV CAMERAS. He USED his supporters as a BACKDROP. The herding of his supporters onto the capitol steps made it appear that he had a huge crowd in attendance. His campaign told the local press they expected 20,00 people to attend--and they later reported 8,000 to the same press. As someone who was there, I can attest that the crowd was not any larger than about 4,000 tops. After attending several events in person and reading the press afterwards numerous times, I realized that this has most likely been happening *everywhere* he goes. Also there was no spontaneous enthusiasm for him--it was WHIPPED up by young supporters who took the stage and conducted a super pep rally. He's the slickest campaigner I've ever seen and quite frankly, it's frightening how easily people can be duped and swayed by charming rhetoric and a super effective organization.
It was after attending several of both his and Senator Clinton's speaking appearances, and seeing his super slick, super fat cat funded operation in person that I realized that he is the most cleverly and slickly marketed candidate this country has ever seen. *HE* and his followers are the ones who have a SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT, not Hillary. All the talk about his time being "NOW" for one thing. Sorry, but from our perspective, he hasn't grown up enough, or paid his dues. She's paid her dues.
Obama, IMO, has duped his fellow African Americans, and the young (both of whom are very politically inexperienced groups)
and he has the support of the new Old Boys Club of the Democratic Party (Kerry, Kennedy et al)but he is unelectable without the support of the traditional base of the Democratic Party and they simply aren't easily fooled. The reason he can't win the OLDER vote is that we've lived long enough to be able to see through the manufactured HYPE that his campaign has orchestrated and have also lived long enough to know that change is something that comes slowly with dedicated effort. Hillary, though she is certainly not perfect either, has been out there making a dedicated effort since the age of 15.
Also in her speeches, she spoke personally to her supporters ABOUT ISSUES. She actually DISCOURAGED personal adulation--whenever the audiences clapped, she did not capitalize on this as he did constantly but simply tried to get back to talking about
her plans to address problems that we face.
She also said nothing negative about him--while he completely TRASHED HER in every audience appearance I attended. That's WHY he's lost me entirely as a supporter in the fall.
As a individual, I can only go on what I saw and observed. His events had the atmosphere of a Rush Limbaugh radio program--simple slogans his followers PARROT repeatedly, resembling brain washing for people who can't think for themselves and like to be herded into a group and told what to do.
If you did a psychological assessment of the personality characteristics of Hillary supporters versus those who support Obama, as a psychologist I can guarantee that you would find that her supporter exhibit far more independence of thought.
Also, he is the one running the negative campaign, poisoning his supporters minds about HER--he does it every time he speaks. The media has been HUGELY biased--and it's a plain GENDER bias, nothing more.
She is the SCAPEGOAT--blamed for the colossal STUPIDITY of the new Old Boys Club (Kennedy, Kerry) choosing to run Senator Obama against her--without even being bright enough to run a simple survey of Democratic voters to see HOW MANY were dedicated supporters who really really wanted Hillary Clinton to be our next President. How stupid can these men be??
Also, whatever you think of Hillary Clinton that doesn't change the fact that Obama is also IN BED with the ethanol industry, ADM in the mid-west and highly funded by many PACs while duping his young idealistic supporters into thinking he is so pure and noble. (Read Harper's Magazine "Barack Obama Inc. The Birth of a Washington Political Machine") :http://www.harpers.org/archive/2006/11/0081275
Finally he is not an UNITER at all--the fact is he TOTALLY DIVIDED the entire Democratic Party by choosing to run against her--AND NOW THAT IS BEING BLAMED ON HER ALSO. If he were a uniter, he would have worked WITH HER and the Democrats could have taken the White House for 16 years. Instead, he and Teddy Kennedy and John Kerry--the new Old Boys Club thought they could just disregard HER and the people who support her. Well, they have figured wrong.
THEY SPLIT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY BY SUPPORTING HIM TO RUN AGAINST HER. Colossal ego/hubris on their part.
John McCain will win this fall if Senator Obama is the nominee, because a huge component of Hillary supporters will become McCain Democrats, or support Nader. We're tired of being overlooked.