That’s always been a value of primaries, and onlookers especally those prone to comment on blogs, need to settle down. It’s normal. Race and gender NEED to be implied and discussed and contested now. It’s the shakedown cruise for November. Both HRC and BHO should be on the ticket. The job of the rank and file is to keep them honest and the results close so they understand they have to be the team.

I didn’t write about Romney because I didn’t see it. Nothing more complicated than that.

A candidate could remain on a podium reading glorious phrases that echo Bushspeak from 2001 from a teleprompter, or the candidate could mingle with the people. When you opt to hear peoples’ stories, you are going to hear some that will have an emotional impact.
Perhaps that’s phony to elitists like you. So be it.

…ltc, momentarily possessed by xkcd

Not true. Obama has no desire to make race a part of the campaign. It doesn’t help him. If invoking race in presidential campaigns is such a winning strategy, why didn’t Jesse Jackson get the nomination way back when?

The Clintons have made race an issue all on their own. Hillary’s desire to rebut Obama’s invocation of MLK’s idea against Hillary’s “false hope” line from the debate led her to make the dumb mistake of appearing to belittle MLK’s role in the civil rights struggle. Bill then compounded the problem with is clumsily phrased “fairy tale” attack. They’ve been doing damage control ever since. Blame should go where it belongs.

This country is in for a world of hurt over the next decade thanks to 28 years of Republican policies. Snf it could really spiral out of control unless we have a Dem president with broad support. We’re looking for a president who won’t just mitigate those problems but develop new policies and get them enacted into law that will put us on a better path. Hillary might empathize with our plight but I don’t see her being able to propose let alone enact the kind of policies that will get us turned around. She has too many scars and too much Wall St. money. Obama can and will.

Look at the endorsements he’s getting from Nelson, McCaskill, Napolitano etc. These people are on his bandwagon because they know he and his policies will be acceptable in their conservative states. He’ll have coattails in November that’ll help them and their local parties. Hillary? She’ll get crushed in NE and AZ and so will anybody running under her on the ticket.

As to her being a great president - well, that’s the point of all this obsessing. No one wants to buy another pig in a poke like voters did with Bush, but there’s simply no good way to tell if a candidate will be great, merely competent or a disaster. Hence, all the guessing.

We just don’t know.

Here’s the problem, though: What if it was genuine both times, and her resistance to being portayed as a “girl” was what kept her from doing it up ’til now?

She’s screwed no matter what. And I’m on the Edwards ballot in IL 10 for delegate, so it isn’t like I’m a big fan.

She would/will still be better than anything running against her, so I’m trying to see the bright side.

And her grating voice tends to be a monotone, which doesn’t help.

No she is not that tough and strong when she loses Iowa.

Then she is tough and strong again.

Until she is not that tough and strong.

This person is a joke.