Comments on Youngstown Renaissance: The Unelectable Clinton

I think HIllary is unelectable simply because of C...

2008-02-17T08:45:00.000-05:00

I think HIllary is unelectable simply because of Clinton/ Bush fatigue. I first voted in a presidential election in 1988, right after graduation. Since then it has been Bush or Clinton in every campaign. I say enough.

Even if he is a bit naive, Obama's message of unity and hope is optimistic and optimism is something that is sorely missing in America today.

Sounds like Obama does have a Rezko headache "this...

2008-02-13T07:40:00.000-05:00

Sounds like Obama does have a Rezko headache "this big" and needs to find a smart way to account for it. That said, the Republican machine have figured out a weird way to make "liberal" a dirty word, and they've stamped it in big red letters across Hillary's forehead. Even if all that had to happen was for women to vote for her, that's still not going to happen. I was stunned to talk to women, WOMEN, who don't believe there should be a woman president, who don't believe a woman has the right temperament for it. I'll grant you, this could have been bound up in their religious beliefs.

Another good book is "Difficult Reputations" by Ga...

2008-02-13T00:49:00.000-05:00

Another good book is "Difficult Reputations" by Gary Allen Fine . . . it reviews how the media and popular perception feeds the public identities of individuals.

Some vote for Obama cause he is fresh and idea-driven whereas Hillary is a boomer and a liability. Some vote for Hillary because she is tested woman whereas Obama is naive.

But how much of our electoral choices are built on identity to self and not the policies the cadidate espouse?

One reason I will never vote for McCain is that when you elect a president, you get that person's whole team, one person does not run the whole government, but brings an infrastructure with them. Team "R" in its current incarnation needs to be destroyed.

In that same perspective, is it better to vote for "Obama and the team he brings and appoints" or "Hillary and the team she brings and appoints". It's not just "Obama" and "Hillary".

Tyler, sweetie, I think you are dead wrong for all...

2008-02-12T22:15:00.000-05:00

Tyler, sweetie, I think you are dead wrong for all the reasons in this very timely essay by Robin Morgan, co-founder of the Women's Media Center, titled "Goodbye to all that ...#2" and can be found here at www.womensmediacenter.com/ex/020108.html

Please read.

Hillary is absolutely electable. Women, who are a majority of the voters, just need to vote for her. It's as simple as that.

Do not fall for the Pundit Spin that the Republicans would rather have Hillary because nothing fires up the Republican base more than the idea of a Clinton candidacy.

Remember, nothing fires up Democrats like a fired up Republican base, and there are more of us Democrats.

The Republicans want Obama to be the Democratic candidate. They will then turn on the machine and "Swift Boat" Obama over his ties to Renko. If you don't know what Imp talking about, Google him.

As an American woman of the Boomer generation, I never thought I would have the opportunity to vote for a woman candidate as thoroughly vetted as Hillary Clinton is. There is not one aspect of her life that has not been subjected to a 'special prosecutor'.

If Hillary is the nominee the Republicans will have to debate the issues.

If Obama is the candidate his errors in judgment will become the focus of Talk Radio, Fox News, MSNBC, etc. And, the Republicans will win.

Please read Robin Morgan's essay, she says it much better than I can. But, I do agree with her closing statement. "I am not voting for Hillary Clinton because she is a woman. I am voting for her because I am."