Today is primary day in Maryland. As a registered republican, I’m sitting this one out. But if you’re a democrat and your candidate is Hillary Clinton, you’re backing a losing horse in this state. Yesterday, Barack Obama gave a speech to 20,000 people at the University of MD and another 10,000 at the Baltimore Arena (where, coincidentally, I was last week to see Finding Nemo on Ice). People waited outside in the cold and in their seats for hours just to listen to him and to catch a glimpse and maybe get a handshake.
Hillary also came to town, where she toured a plant that makes hybrid transmissions and had a sit-down with a dozen or so plant employees. The difference in their appearances is striking. To wit:
Here you have Hillary, the O’Governor, Lt. Gov, our lesbo midget shrew of a U.S. Senator and some plant guy looking dour and serious as Hillary gets a carefully orchestrated tour that looks like it’s no fun for anyone involved…
…While Obama speaks in front of thousands and everyone looks like they wouldn’t want to be anywhere else at that moment.
I’m not sold on Obama. The word “change” isn’t enough for me. He’s promising everything to everyone without any specific ideas or plans on how to do anything just like every other politician who ever walked the earth. His voting record isn’t all that different from Hillary’s either. And, truthfully, if he wasn’t black and if he wasn’t able to speak like Martin Luther King without the southern accent he wouldn’t have ever been taken seriously as presidential material. But those who are easily led by looks and rhetoric are completely sold on him — in Maryland, at least — and if it’s like this in other places then Hillary is in deep, deep trouble.
Though for as power hungry and polarizing and insincere as she is, I don’t think her problems could be happening to a nicer guy. She did think the Oval Office was hers for the taking so I’m glad to see her get beat back some.
And she’s definitely been pimping Chelsea out. Let’s call a spade a spade. Or a trick a trick.
But those who are easily led by looks and rhetoric are completely sold on him — in Maryland, at least — and if it’s like this in other places then Hillary is in deep, deep trouble.
Just because someone disagrees with you does not mean he or she are “easily led by looks and rhetoric.” Obama has written two books, including a massive 400-page tome all on positions and policy, and I’ve read both. Some of us have spent months, years even, doing research on the guy and are happy with the innumerable specifics we’ve learned.
Mike Huckabee is a great speaker - much funnier than Obama, in fact - and not a bad looking guy; are his followers just easily led by looks and rhetoric?
I read The Audacity of Hope. It was a nice. However, the only specifics I really care about are in his voting record and not a book or any other pro-him propaganda he may produce. His voting record is not appreciably different than Hillary’s. Or Edwards’. Or anyone else’s with a (D) next to his or her name. Or John McCain’s. I absolutely believe that people are getting caught up in a cult of personality with Obama. You don’t stand out in the cold or wait in your seat for hours to listen to a guy talk because of his policies and ideas. You come to feel the fervor. Like religious folks get at a Benny Hinn revival. The Sun didn’t play up the “rock star” appeal Obama’s visit for nothing.
I’m not saying Obama is not the best orator on the trail. I’m saying he’s not so much a different kind of politician as he is just a different politician. Maybe that’s enough for most people but it’s not enough for me.
Not that it matters. No matter who gets elected it’ll be back to the same old same old, or it will get worse.
As for Huckabee, well, republicans aren’t looking for a savior the way democrats are.
http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/01/21/troeltsch-examines-clinton-vs-obama-on-voting-record-differences/
http://demo.excelsis.com/clinton-obama-mccain-vote-comparison.html
All 3 candidates say their health plan is some variation of what Hillary wrote back in the day. So it looks like we’ll be getting the Hillary plan no matter who wins and “health care” is not really a rallying cry. For me it comes down to who wants out of Iraq the most so we can get our economy back in order. I think it’s Obama. I’m waiting for my “got hope?” t-shirt to arrive.
I am sad that Mitt Romney quit. Those Mormons like alot of children…and I have alot of children too. Oh, wait…how many children does he have anyway?
I am a republican in a democrat world…
Slinking away.
Lesbo midget shrew? Bwah!
Doesn’t she look like a munchkin from The Wizard of Oz? At their present ages?
She does! At first glance, I thought she was sitting down, too!