He said. She said.
OK. While I really don’t think Bill should have said what he said in quite that way, it’s no less underhanded than when Obama tried to play the race card in his favor when he made his comments about Hillary’s comment about MLK/LBJ. C’mon. I fail to see how her very factual statement, which praised both MLK and LBJ in their partnership to get it done. But it did take a President to make it real. Charles Rangel agrees.
And Obama’s own camp was relying on the Black vote in SC so I’m not really sure why we can’t comment on it. It was a factor. Deal with it. Just like women were a factor for Hillary that was also discussed openly, but no one got all bent out of shape about that. (And for the record, Jesse Jackson’s wife supports Hillary Clinton.)
They got all bent out of shape when she finally showed some emotion that everyone had been waiting to see. And they tried to crucify her for it. She’s damned when she’s tough, she’s damned when she’s not.
And all this bashing of both candidates is ridiculous. We would all be far better off if either of them got the nomination and won the Presidency. I don’t understand why I have to love one and hate the other? I like both, but I feel Hillary is a better policy make and better and getting results. And yes, it comes from experience. She’s been championing one of the biggest issues on the ballot for years – Universal Health Care. Sure it got shot down, but she kept at it. She’s made changes. She was reelected by a landslide by the people who never thought she would win her first bid for the Senate.
She is also New York’s first member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and has become an expert on defense policy. I think those are pretty good credentials for a Commander in Chief to lead us out of a war and prepare us for things we do not know.
Hope is hope. Change is change. But I need a President to make it real.