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David Sirota is a political journalist and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist at Creators Syndicate. David writes about political corruption, globalization and working-class economic issues often ignored by both of America's political parties.
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January 8, 2008 2:04 PM
A Human Moment
I'm not a huge Hillary Clinton fan, but this is about the most human moment I've ever seen from her. Campaigns, as anyone who as ever worked on one, are tough business. They are grueling, tiring, emotional, etc. And though sometimes the candidates look like robots, they are humans.
P.S. I am in no way saying that because Hillary Clinton's voice cracked and she had a tear in her eye does that in any way make her worthy of being President of the United States.
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It's nice to know that not only does David Sirota believe that Republican Mike Huckabee is an "economic populist", he believes that Hillary's tears were sincere and not an act.
Sorry, but you're losing your touch sir.
I am a life long democrat, but I have never, nor will I ever, vote for a Clinton. They are sleazy, DLC'ers...
A human moment? Ha! These two are cold and calculating, and have never known a "human moment". It is always all about them.
A lot of us have long memories.
She's human no doubt and feels as well.
But she's a Clinton and a lot of us don't trust them considering the damage they've done to the party and country.
And given her contempt for those hurt by her husbands support of NAFTA and other corporate written trade legislation - she deserves no sympathy.
It goes both ways and she doesn't understand it and thats what will do her in.
Yes, running for president is tough. Actually being president is a whole lot tougher. I don't think the leader of the free world should let emotions overwhelm him or her, particularly on national television.
When dealing with Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, or any other foreign nations, things will get tough, grueling, and emotional. Our president can not be weak and vulnerable. Our president can not afford to go to the back room and cry.
That moment, while emotional and human, was certainly not presidential.
Here's some more important human moments to actually consider. Ever notice how Independent candidates, rich or poor, are finding it harder to run for president? Worse, despite the fact that both parties are FUCKING America to death, Independent candidates, save the fake "libertarians" whose only job is to kiss Wall Street's ASS, are choked by both the media and even issue-oriented interest groups. For example, I'd sure as hell love to see either Sierra Club or the NRA for once endorse an Independent for any elected office if they really cared about the issues they claim to be fighting for anyway.
By the way, don't look now but HITLERY and McAiNIAC won the motherfucking NH primary ! Ok David, once you're done with these two parties, give me a call and I'll introduce you to 3rd party candidates who admire your beliefs and will put them to work.
Any populist Nostradami left?
Everyone's scratching their heads. But exit polls show that voters who decided in last 3 days broke evenly between HRC and O.
It's an old story. The better ground organization got their voters to the polls. Many of Obama's, presumably younger, supporters weren't as "likely voters" as they'd indicated to the polsters.
In any case, we're back to hoping that Edwards or Obama drops out b4 Feb. 5 and cedes his support to the other.
If HRC wins, get ready to watch the BIGGEST and STRONGEST unity the GOP will ever get and watch them pull more Independents just like that. The record voter turnout for social conservatives be it guns, abortions, morality bullshit, etc ... will be NASTILY high. Hillary's loss likely to be a superlandslide defeat will make George McGovern and Walter Mondale look like they were in close elections.
GrantBurkeVT,
Lou Dobbs has your ear on Independents.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/01/08/Dobbs.January8/index.html
Sadly, for Independents to wipe out both parties is a pipe dream for now.
Sadly, Hillary's emotional moment did not come about the plight of the workers hurt by NAFTA, the abuse of veterans of the Iraq "war", American children not getting proper healthcare, or any other moment which would have shown she cares about the American people.
It came because she was talking about how bad she wants to be president.
That should tell you something right there.
I can't believe that enough voters in NH even fell for that bitch's crocodile tears. In any case, she wasn't far ahead of Obama and hope that there will be room for Edwards to catch up after this. It used to be that IA and NH wouldn't lock up a primary so soon but since 2000, it has always been that way.
Those tears turned the election for her. I knew, soon as I saw the early returns that this was the case. Expect we'll see a lot more political tears from now on.
Who gives a crap about Hillary. Let me give you progressive ostriches a hint: the democratic party is WAY lost. You KNOW that Edwards, Obama, Clinton are OWNED. And when someone like Kucinich who is REAL comes around he is just too left for all of you; and even when you do support him he is marginalized. Anyway, my actual point that I want to make is this: get your head out of the sand and realize who our real competition is. Our real competition is RIGHTWING POPULISM. It is quickly winning the hears and minds of the politically active memebers of the working class. And it ain't all libertarian like Ron Paul. Some of it is actually NATIONALISTIC, SOCIALISTIC, and economically LEFTIST in some regards. But the reason I do not join up with it is because it is too reminiscent of the average rightwing: obsessed with race, ubernationalism, and islamophobia. I am talking about parties like the BNP in Britain. Another reason I would not join these parties is because I have mixed Euro ethnicity, which does not bode well for being a beneficiary of national socialism. Also, these people are too close to that Hitler crap. Anyway, THIS is our competition. Although they agree with us on most economic issues, they are stupid as crap, blaming nearly everything they don't like (including GLOBALIZATION and PRIVATIZATION of all things) on the LEFT, on MARXISM. These people are incapable of seeing how just because the economy is international does not mean it is inherently marxist. We are competing with these people for the hearts and minds of the working class. I suggest we focus on the idea war with them, rather than some democratic primary crap. I am hardly even paying attention to the primaries. I'll probably vote for Kucinich, but that is about it.
The people in NH are truly a stupid and pathetic bunch to fall for a female corporate thug like Hillary. They seem to have a collective intellect of a amoeba to lap up her lies and platitudes.
well it is the "live free or die" (i.e. libertarian pro-elite) state. Can one really expect a state like this, one with a libertarian general population, rich migrants from massachusetts, and elite Dartmouth students.
When an elite ivy league school is the primary liberal bastion, you know one of two things is true: either your state is REALLY conservative, or the class war has been inverted to favor the rich rightwing such that the poor people are the most conservative and the liberals are the rich people with a "conscience." In this case, both are true.
It is a false choice. They have SUBVERTED the anti-DLC movement and substituted a PSEUDO-progressive "alternative" in Obama. You can go with the DLC centrist Hillary, or you can go with the choice of the rich latte college PSEUDO-lefties and vote for "change" with Obama (who along with his wife are both ivy leaguers). Either way you get a corporate candidate. BTW, before you tell me obama is so liberal and pro-workingclass, I would recommend you check the exit polls at CNN: wealthier people voted for him. The core democratic base of workingclass people (the core is NOT college students) voted for HILLARY. In that regard, Hillary may be more populist than Obama.
I meant to say in the first paragraph above:
well it is the "live free or die" (i.e. libertarian pro-elite) state. Can one really expect a state like this, one with a libertarian general population, rich migrants from massachusetts, and elite Dartmouth students, to deliver a progressive? Why the eff do you think edwards did so bad?
below_mason_dixon
Thanks for explaining why the votes went the way they did in NH. It makes sense.
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