US Election Coverage 2008

anachosema yourname...thats a fact for a Republicans Party, Clintons are devils na wakisikia hilo jina wanapata nightmare

Koba ndizo sterio type umezipiga vita mda mrefu hapa! Republicans wana matatizo yao na hawampendi Clinton kwa sababu ali-breath fresh life kwenye seemingly dead Democratic Party in 1992! Remember alishinda 1992 Popularity ya Bush Snr ikiwa ngapi? they were prepared for a long, long life at the Capitol Hill..Only Bill frustrated that plan. Bill is smart and Republicans are always afraid of that! Kama ulivyosema hii dunia lazima ufight and Clinton is person who will never take NO for an answer! Jiulize ushindi wa mama Clinton 2000 wakati ndo skandal ya mume wake ilikuwa Very fresh, who expected that? Yes Clinton as human has his own shortcomings absolutely, but is not the way people want us to believe.

Kwa hiyo bwana in politics, hii mambo ya shock and awe ni mingi! Republicans wanatumia kadi ya kuogofya, but deep down they are afraid to death the prospects of campaigning against Bill Clinton and his wife... especially in this period when US is really in deep trouble.

Usitegemee Obama au mama Clinton apendwe just because of anything. I bet my five cents. Very soon utaanza kuona who truly Obama is through the very media praising him. And this is normal everywhere! Kama watu wangekuwa wanaogopa/wanafikira kwanza public opinions wakati wanafanya mambo yao, as you rightly said tusingefika tulipo! You know better

Koba,Masanja,YNIM,Kitila,DAR-SI-LAMU,

..Mzee Clinton ni kama yale majamaa ambayo mkiwa shule yanaonekana hayasomi lakini ukija mtihani yanapasua. watu kama hao hu-attract resentment.

..Mama Clinton ni saa na mwanamke mzuri, na mwenye akili za kutisha, lakini cha ajabu amenaswa na amenaswa na jamaa tapeli. watu wengi hukerwa na uhusiano kama huo.

..nadhani hizo facts hapo zinawasumbua sana Democrats.

..The Clintons are very flawed yet extremely skilled and succesful politicians.

..Nadhani Democrats na Media walikuwa wanawa-support kwasababu hawakuwa na choice. They were the only ones who could beat the Republican in their own game.

..Now, there is a new kid on the block kuwamaliza kina Clinton--Barack Obama. Sasa hapo ndiyo utawajua marafiki wa kweli wa kina Clinton. Usije shangaa ukawakuta wamebaki peke yao.

Hawa wote wanaom-diss Clinton sasa watakuja kumhitaji kwenye kampeni za uchaguzi mkuu. So siyo busara kumdhihaki sasa hivi wakati anaweza akawasaidia kupata kura kwani jamaa ni campaigner mzuri sana

Kitila Mkumbo said:

uhuuu, usije ukawa unaimba nyimbo za wengine; in so far as Africa is concerned, huyu ndiye Rais wa US ambaye ameingia kwenye record kwamba alikuwa genuinely concerned na shida za bara hili na kujaribu kusaidia kutatua. na hadi leo ameendelea kutumia nguvu nyingi tu za akili na mwili wake kwa ajili ya maendeleo ya watu wa Afrika.

Sio lazima uwakandie akina Clinton ili uonekane unampenda Obama.

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Kama hujaelewa jambo kaa kimya na sio kudandia mambo ili mradi uonekane ume criticize. I researched the clintons, na ninasimama kwa kile nilichosema. Kama wewe unabisha kaa na mawazo yako hayo hayo ya kwamba alikuwa the "first black president." Ukweli ni kwamba he wasn't, he wanst black and never will. Hiyo ya kusaidia Africa ni show tu na watu kama wewe mnaingia mtegoni kama alivyotarajia..........zaidi ya hapo siku ukiamua ku-quote mtu weka full text na sio kifungo unachotaka wewe tu, kwani tabia hiyo u-distort maana nzima ya kile original poster intended!!!!.

YournameisMINE said:

including kujilizaliza kwa bibie,

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..seconded!

..nilimwangalia alipoomba kura kwa kulalamika kwamba inakatisha tamaa,eti ana mambo mengi ya kuifanyia america. nikajua hapo wazungu watamwonea huruma.

jokaKuu said:

Koba,Masanja,YNIM,Kitila,DAR-SI-LAMU,

..Mzee Clinton ni kama yale majamaa ambayo mkiwa shule yanaonekana hayasomi lakini ukija mtihani yanapasua. watu kama hao hu-attract resentment.

..Mama Clinton ni saa na mwanamke mzuri, na mwenye akili za kutisha, lakini cha ajabu amenaswa na amenaswa na jamaa tapeli. watu wengi hukerwa na uhusiano kama huo.

..nadhani hizo facts hapo zinawasumbua sana Democrats.

..The Clintons are very flawed yet extremely skilled and succesful politicians.


..Nadhani Democrats na Media walikuwa wanawa-support kwasababu hawakuwa na choice. They were the only ones who could beat the Republican in their own game.

..Now, there is a new kid on the block kuwamaliza kina Clinton--Barack Obama. Sasa hapo ndiyo utawajua marafiki wa kweli wa kina Clinton. Usije shangaa ukawakuta wamebaki peke yao.

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..hajanaswa,she knew right along what she was getting into. ukipata historia ya uhusiano wao picha itakuwa clear zaidi.

..their's was a marriage of convenience!

YournameisMINE said:

Kama hujaelewa jambo kaa kimya na sio kudandia mambo ili mradi uonekane ume criticize. I researched the clintons, na ninasimama kwa kile nilichosema. Kama wewe unabisha kaa na mawazo yako hayo hayo ya kwamba alikuwa the "first black president." Ukweli ni kwamba he wasn't, he wanst black and never will. Hiyo ya kusaidia Africa ni show tu na watu kama wewe mnaingia mtegoni kama alivyotarajia..........zaidi ya hapo siku ukiamua ku-quote mtu weka full text na sio kifungo unachotaka wewe tu, kwani tabia hiyo u-distort maana nzima ya kile original poster intended!!!!.

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Haya mkuu, shikamoo, my hands up!

Kitila Mkumbo said:

Haya mkuu, shikamoo, my hands up!

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excellent!!

There's something pathetic and embarrassing about our obsession with Barack Obama's race.
By Christopher Hitchens
Posted Monday, Jan. 7, 2008, at 12:04 PM ET

To put it squarely and bluntly, is it because he is or is it because he isn't? To phrase it another way, is it because of what he says or what he doesn't say? Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois is the current beneficiary of a tsunami of drool. He sometimes claims credit on behalf of all Americans regardless of race, color, creed, blah blah blah, though his recent speeches appear also to claim a victory for blackness while his supporters—most especially the white ones—sob happily that at last we can have an African-American chief executive. Off to the side, snarling with barely concealed rage, are the Clinton machine-minders, who, having failed to ignite the same kind of identity excitement with an aging and resentful female, are perhaps wishing that they had made more of her errant husband having already been "our first black president."

Or perhaps not. Isn't there something pathetic and embarrassing about this emphasis on shade? And why is a man with a white mother considered to be "black," anyway? Is it for this that we fought so hard to get over Plessy v. Ferguson? Would we accept, if Obama's mother had also been Jewish, that he would therefore be the first Jewish president? The more that people claim Obama's mere identity to be a "breakthrough," the more they demonstrate that they have failed to emancipate themselves from the original categories of identity that acted as a fetter upon clear thought.

One can't exactly say that Sen. Obama himself panders to questions of skin color. One of the best chapters of his charming autobiography describes the moment when his black Republican opponent in the Illinois Senate race—Alan Keyes—accused him of possessing insufficient negritude because he wasn't the descendant of slaves! Obama's decision to be light-hearted—and perhaps light-skinned—about this was a milestone in itself. But are we not in danger of emulating Keyes' insane mistake every time we bang on about the senator's pigmentation? If you wanted a "black" president or vice president so much, you could long ago have turned out en masse for Angela Davis—also the first woman to be on a national ticket—or for Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. So, why didn't you? Could it have been the politics?

Last week happened to be the week that the nation of Kenya—birthplace of Obama's father—was convulsed by a political war that contained ghastly overtones of violent and sadistic tribalism. It would sound as absurd to a Kenyan to hear praise for a black candidate as it would sound to most of my European readers to hear a recommendation of a "great white hope." A white visitor to Kenya might not be able to tell a Kikuyu from a Luo at a glance, but a Kenyan would have no such difficulty. The time is pretty much past, in our country, when a Polish-American would not vote for a candidate with a German name or when Sharks and Jets were at daggers drawn, but this is all because (to borrow from Ernest Renan's definition of a nation) people agreed to forget a lot of things as well as to remember a number of things. So, which are we doing presently?

Sen. Obama is a congregant of a church in Chicago called Trinity United Church of Christ. I recommend that you take a brisk tour of its Web site. Run by the sort of character that the press often guardedly describes as "flamboyant"—a man calling himself the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.—this bizarre outfit describes itself as "Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian" and speaks of "a chosen people" whose nature we are allowed to assume is "Afrocentric." Trinity United sells creationist books and its home page includes a graphic link to a thing called Goodsearch—the name is surmounted with a halo in its logo—which announces cheerily that "Every time you search or shop online! Our Church earns money." Much or most of what Trinity United says is harmless and boring, rather like Gov. Mike Huckabee's idiotic belief that his own success in Iowa is comparable to the "miracle" of the loaves and fishes, and the site offers a volume called Bad Girls of the Bible: Exploring Women of Questionable Virtue, which I have added to my cart, but nobody who wants to be taken seriously can possibly be associated with such a substandard and shade-oriented place.

All this easy talk about being a "uniter" and not a "divider" is piffle if people are talking out of both sides of their mouths. I have been droning on for months about how Mitt Romney needs to answer questions about the flat-out racist background of his own church, and about how Huckabee has shown in public that he does not even understand the first thing about a theory—the crucial theory of evolution by natural selection—in which he claims not to believe. Many Democrats are with me on this, but they go completely quiet when Sen. Obama chooses to give his allegiance to a crackpot church with a decidedly ethnic character.

The unspoken agreement to concede the black community to the sway of the pulpit is itself a form of racist condescension. The sickly canonization of Martin Luther King Jr. has led to a crude rewriting of history that obliterates the great black and white secularists—Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, Walter Reuther—who actually organized the March on Washington. It has also allowed a free pass to any demagogue who can manage to get the word reverend in front of his name. The white voters who subconsciously make the allowance that black folks sure love to hear their preachers are not only patronizing their black brothers and sisters but also helping to empower white ministers or deacons who make the same pitch, from Jimmy Carter to Mike Huckabee. The Iowa caucuses of 2008 were not the end of our long national nightmare about race, but another stage in our protracted national nightmare of piety, "uplift," and deceptive optimistic windbaggery.
Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and the author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.

Article URL: http://www.slate.com/id/2181460/

Copyright 2008 Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC

Nyani Ngabu said:

Sasa kama ubaguzi haupo kwa nini ktk seneti ya na majimbo ya Marekani kuna seneta na gavana mmoja tu mweusi? Hivi unadhani kunakuwaga hakuna weusi wenye sifa wanaogombeaga?

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Hivi kuna watu weusi percent ngapi marekani?watu weusi percent yao ni ndogo sana, ubaguzi ndio upo lakini ukishakuwa na pesa elimu nakadhalika utashangaa hata watu wanaodharau weusi watakavyokuheshimu, kuna show moja ya Oprah kulikuwa na watu wanadharau weusi wazi wazi halafu wanamwambia Oprah but you are different na kumpa heshima kibao na kumuona mwenzao kabisa, Oprah akaja juu i am not different i am black too, lakini watu walikuwa hawataki kukubali kabisa.

Kuna nchi mbalimbali za Europe kuna club weusi hata huingii, nilienda na mshkaji wangu mmoja mmarekani mweusi, wao kusikia ile accent tu wakatukaribisha kwa moyo mmoja na kutushabikia wakijua mmarekani ni mtu mwenye pesa bila kujali rangi yake, siku hiyo nilishangaa sana kweli pesa ni kitu ingine.

Hata Venus Williams alivyokuwa anafululiza kushinda Wimbledon wazungu walikuwa wanamuheshimu na hawataki kabisa kusikia anatajwa kuwa she is a black player, wao walikuwa wanasema huyu ni mshindi mengine yote potelea mbali.

Sasa Obama is smart, looks good, he is a Senator in a senate full of whites, akishinda haitakuwa kwa ajili ya rangi yake na hata kama atashindwa haitakuwa kwa ajili ya rangi yake pia, mbona John Kerry was white and still lost? mbona Al Gore was white and still lost? mbona Obama is black and still won to the senator in Illinois? kuna blacks wangapi wapiga kura kule?

Kwa sisi tulioishi na wazungu bwana, wewe fanya vitu vyako, be smart have money, utashangaa from nowhere they forget your colour. Utashanga mara wasichana wa kizungu wanakufukuzia ile mbaya kisa you are successful, lakini kama ni mchovu ndio joto ya jiwe utaiona, hata kwetu bongo ukiwa mchovu imetoka sasa pale mtu atasema kisa mimi mweusi ndio maana wananitosa?

# Sen. Hillary Clinton's (D.-N.Y.) unexpected win in New Hampshire Tuesday came when her own supporters talked of at least relaunching her campaign or at worst of getting out. There had been speculation that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), by winning in Nevada and South Carolina, could wrap up the nomination in the next couple of weeks.

# Many Democrats whom we contacted expressed relief, albeit prematurely, of finally being rid of the Clintons. But she came back with typical Clintonian tactics -- the tearful emotional scene on election eve, which most politicians thought was contrived, and Bill Clinton's screed against Obama. That mobilized the Clinton base: senior citizens, low-income workers, single women, and labor union members.

# Why were all the polls in New Hampshire -- including the exit polls -- so wrong? Not many people talk about it publicly, but in private, there is speculation that white voters lie to pollsters about their willingness to vote for an African-American. That is the worst aspect of Obama's defeat in New Hampshire.

# Nevertheless, Obama is still in the ball game. The Culinary Workers union, a potent political force in Nevada, may still endorse him -- making him a serious threat to Clinton in that state. Thanks to the big African-American vote, Obama is favored in South Carolina. The battle is still on.

Kichwa maji, Rush Limbaugh anadai wizi wa kura na bus loads of out of staters to vote for clinton in NH. Bogus uunh!!?

YournameisMINE said:

Kichwa maji, Rush Limbaugh anadai wizi wa kura na bus loads of out of staters to vote for clinton in NH. Bogus uunh!!?

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Watu wanaraise eyebrows NH....kuna wanaotaka recount...

Pedro said:

Hivi kuna watu weusi percent ngapi marekani?watu weusi percent yao ni ndogo sana, ubaguzi ndio upo lakini ukishakuwa na pesa elimu nakadhalika utashangaa hata watu wanaodharau weusi watakavyokuheshimu, kuna show moja ya Oprah kulikuwa na watu wanadharau weusi wazi wazi halafu wanamwambia Oprah but you are different na kumpa heshima kibao na kumuona mwenzao kabisa, Oprah akaja juu i am not different i am black too, lakini watu walikuwa hawataki kukubali kabisa.

Kuna nchi mbalimbali za Europe kuna club weusi hata huingii, nilienda na mshkaji wangu mmoja mmarekani mweusi, wao kusikia ile accent tu wakatukaribisha kwa moyo mmoja na kutushabikia wakijua mmarekani ni mtu mwenye pesa bila kujali rangi yake, siku hiyo nilishangaa sana kweli pesa ni kitu ingine.

Hata Venus Williams alivyokuwa anafululiza kushinda Wimbledon wazungu walikuwa wanamuheshimu na hawataki kabisa kusikia anatajwa kuwa she is a black player, wao walikuwa wanasema huyu ni mshindi mengine yote potelea mbali.

Sasa Obama is smart, looks good, he is a Senator in a senate full of whites, akishinda haitakuwa kwa ajili ya rangi yake na hata kama atashindwa haitakuwa kwa ajili ya rangi yake pia, mbona John Kerry was white and still lost? mbona Al Gore was white and still lost? mbona Obama is black and still won to the senator in Illinois? kuna blacks wangapi wapiga kura kule?

Kwa sisi tulioishi na wazungu bwana, wewe fanya vitu vyako, be smart have money, utashangaa from nowhere they forget your colour. Utashanga mara wasichana wa kizungu wanakufukuzia ile mbaya kisa you are successful, lakini kama ni mchovu ndio joto ya jiwe utaiona, hata kwetu bongo ukiwa mchovu imetoka sasa pale mtu atasema kisa mimi mweusi ndio maana wananitosa?

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...So refreshing to see some reasoned anaysis in this thread (for a change)

Alafu HRC aliendelea kukaa kwenye ndoa kwa sababu za kisiasa au ndio mapenzi yenyewe? Maanaa wanasema mpaka leo Bill Clinton ni mwendo wa kufungua zipu tuu.

Hillary without tears
Why it's time to close the book on the Clintons -- and herald the Obamas! Plus: Iran war hawks, Russian drag queens and the genius of Zeppelin.

By Camille Paglia

Jan. 10, 2008 | Subject: Hillary and sado-masochism

As her husband has dragged his numerous female play objects before her and has humiliated her on the public stage year after year, she still stays within the marriage.

Hillary seems to take every beating, and yet she appears to "keep on ticking." Does she thrive on this?

How would this affect one's (female) psyche? Judgment as President? General perspective?

Robert Philips
Corrales, New Mexico

A swarm of biographers in miners' gear has tried to plumb the inky depths of Hillary Rodham Clinton's warren-riddled psyche. My metaphor is drawn (as Oscar Wilde's prim Miss Prism would say) from the Scranton coalfields, to which came the Welsh family that produced Hillary's harsh, domineering father.

Hillary's feckless, loutish brothers (who are kept at arm's length by her operation) took the brunt of Hugh Rodham's abuse in their genteel but claustrophobic home. Hillary is the barracuda who fought for dominance at their expense. Flashes of that ruthless old family drama have come out repeatedly in this campaign, as when Hillary could barely conceal her sneers at her fellow debaters onstage -- the wimpy, cringing brothers at the dinner table.

Hillary's willingness to tolerate Bill's compulsive philandering is a function of her general contempt for men. She distrusts them and feels morally superior to them. Following the pattern of her long-suffering mother, she thinks it is her mission to endure every insult and personal degradation for a higher cause -- which, unlike her self-sacrificing mother, she identifies with her near-messianic personal ambition.

It's no coincidence that Hillary's staff has always consisted mostly of adoring women, with nerdy or geeky guys forming an adjunct brain trust. Hillary's rumored hostility to uniformed military men and some Secret Service agents early in the first Clinton presidency probably belongs to this pattern. And let's not forget Hillary, the governor's wife, pulling out a book and rudely reading in the bleachers during University of Arkansas football games back in Little Rock.

Hillary's disdain for masculinity fits right into the classic feminazi package, which is why Hillary acts on Gloria Steinem like catnip. Steinem's fawning, gaseous New York Times op-ed about her pal Hillary this week speaks volumes about the snobby clubbiness and reactionary sentimentality of the fossilized feminist establishment, which has blessedly fallen off the cultural map in the 21st century. History will judge Steinem and company very severely for their ethically obtuse indifference to the stream of working-class women and female subordinates whom Bill Clinton sexually harassed and abused, enabled by look-the-other-way and trash-the-victims Hillary.

How does all this affect the prospect of a Hillary presidency? With her eyes on the White House, Hillary as senator has made concerted and generally successful efforts to improve her knowledge of and relationship to the military -- crucial for any commander-in-chief but especially for the first female one. However, I remain concerned about her future conduct of high-level diplomacy. Contemptuous condescension seems to be Hillary's default mode with any male who criticizes her or stands in her way. It's a Nixonian reflex steeped in toxic gender bias. How will that play in the Muslim world?

The Clintons live to campaign. It's what holds them together and gives them a glowing sense of meaning and value. Their actual political accomplishments are fairly slight. The obsessive need to keep campaigning may mean a president Hillary would go right on spewing the bitterly partisan rhetoric that has already paralyzed Washington. Even if Hillary could be elected (which I'm skeptical about), how in tarnation could she ever govern?

The current wave of support for Barack Obama from Democrats, independents, and even some Republicans is partly based on his vision of a new political discourse that breaks with the petty, destructive polarization of the past 20 years. Whether Obama can build up his foreign policy credentials sufficiently to reassure an anxious general electorate remains to be seen.

But Hillary herself, with her thin, spotty record, tangled psychological baggage, and maundering blowhard of a husband, is also a mighty big roll of the dice. She is a brittle, relentless manipulator with few stable core values who shuffles through useful personalities like a card shark ("Cue the tears!"). Forget all her little gold crosses: Hillary's real god is political expediency. Do Americans truly want this hard-bitten Machiavellian back in the White House? Day one will just be more of the same.

I will vote for Hillary if she is the nominee of my party, because I want Democrats appointed to the Cabinet and the Supreme Court. But I plan to vote for Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary because he is a rational, centered personality who speaks the language of idealism and national unity. Obama has served longer as an elected official than Hillary. He has had experience as a grass-roots activist, and he is also a highly educated lawyer who will be a quick learner in office. His international parentage and childhood, as well as his knowledge of both Christianity and Islam, would make him the right leader at the right time. And his wife Michelle is a powerhouse.

The Obamas represent the future, not the past.

Karl Rove on why Hillary won in NH

http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB119992615845679531.html

Icadon said:

Alafu HRC aliendelea kukaa kwenye ndoa kwa sababu za kisiasa au ndio mapenzi yenyewe? Maanaa wanasema mpaka leo Bill Clinton ni mwendo wa kufungua zipu tuu.

Hillary without tears
Why it's time to close the book on the Clintons -- and herald the Obamas! Plus: Iran war hawks, Russian drag queens and the genius of Zeppelin.

By Camille Paglia

Jan. 10, 2008 | Subject: Hillary and sado-masochism

As her husband has dragged his numerous female play objects before her and has humiliated her on the public stage year after year, she still stays within the marriage.

Hillary seems to take every beating, and yet she appears to "keep on ticking." Does she thrive on this?

How would this affect one's (female) psyche? Judgment as President? General perspective?

Robert Philips
Corrales, New Mexico

A swarm of biographers in miners' gear has tried to plumb the inky depths of Hillary Rodham Clinton's warren-riddled psyche. My metaphor is drawn (as Oscar Wilde's prim Miss Prism would say) from the Scranton coalfields, to which came the Welsh family that produced Hillary's harsh, domineering father.

Hillary's feckless, loutish brothers (who are kept at arm's length by her operation) took the brunt of Hugh Rodham's abuse in their genteel but claustrophobic home. Hillary is the barracuda who fought for dominance at their expense. Flashes of that ruthless old family drama have come out repeatedly in this campaign, as when Hillary could barely conceal her sneers at her fellow debaters onstage -- the wimpy, cringing brothers at the dinner table.

Hillary's willingness to tolerate Bill's compulsive philandering is a function of her general contempt for men. She distrusts them and feels morally superior to them. Following the pattern of her long-suffering mother, she thinks it is her mission to endure every insult and personal degradation for a higher cause -- which, unlike her self-sacrificing mother, she identifies with her near-messianic personal ambition.

It's no coincidence that Hillary's staff has always consisted mostly of adoring women, with nerdy or geeky guys forming an adjunct brain trust. Hillary's rumored hostility to uniformed military men and some Secret Service agents early in the first Clinton presidency probably belongs to this pattern. And let's not forget Hillary, the governor's wife, pulling out a book and rudely reading in the bleachers during University of Arkansas football games back in Little Rock.

Hillary's disdain for masculinity fits right into the classic feminazi package, which is why Hillary acts on Gloria Steinem like catnip. Steinem's fawning, gaseous New York Times op-ed about her pal Hillary this week speaks volumes about the snobby clubbiness and reactionary sentimentality of the fossilized feminist establishment, which has blessedly fallen off the cultural map in the 21st century. History will judge Steinem and company very severely for their ethically obtuse indifference to the stream of working-class women and female subordinates whom Bill Clinton sexually harassed and abused, enabled by look-the-other-way and trash-the-victims Hillary.

How does all this affect the prospect of a Hillary presidency? With her eyes on the White House, Hillary as senator has made concerted and generally successful efforts to improve her knowledge of and relationship to the military -- crucial for any commander-in-chief but especially for the first female one. However, I remain concerned about her future conduct of high-level diplomacy. Contemptuous condescension seems to be Hillary's default mode with any male who criticizes her or stands in her way. It's a Nixonian reflex steeped in toxic gender bias. How will that play in the Muslim world?

The Clintons live to campaign. It's what holds them together and gives them a glowing sense of meaning and value. Their actual political accomplishments are fairly slight. The obsessive need to keep campaigning may mean a president Hillary would go right on spewing the bitterly partisan rhetoric that has already paralyzed Washington. Even if Hillary could be elected (which I'm skeptical about), how in tarnation could she ever govern?

The current wave of support for Barack Obama from Democrats, independents, and even some Republicans is partly based on his vision of a new political discourse that breaks with the petty, destructive polarization of the past 20 years. Whether Obama can build up his foreign policy credentials sufficiently to reassure an anxious general electorate remains to be seen.

But Hillary herself, with her thin, spotty record, tangled psychological baggage, and maundering blowhard of a husband, is also a mighty big roll of the dice. She is a brittle, relentless manipulator with few stable core values who shuffles through useful personalities like a card shark ("Cue the tears!"). Forget all her little gold crosses: Hillary's real god is political expediency. Do Americans truly want this hard-bitten Machiavellian back in the White House? Day one will just be more of the same.

I will vote for Hillary if she is the nominee of my party, because I want Democrats appointed to the Cabinet and the Supreme Court. But I plan to vote for Barack Obama in the Pennsylvania primary because he is a rational, centered personality who speaks the language of idealism and national unity. Obama has served longer as an elected official than Hillary. He has had experience as a grass-roots activist, and he is also a highly educated lawyer who will be a quick learner in office. His international parentage and childhood, as well as his knowledge of both Christianity and Islam, would make him the right leader at the right time. And his wife Michelle is a powerhouse.

The Obamas represent the future, not the past.

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..this is deep!

Republican know for sure that If there wont be another 9/11,and with the quigmaire they have created under Bush for the past 8 yrs,there's no-one to stop Hillary.And that explains why they treacherously "support" Obama.However,White America isn't ready for a Black president yet,whether we like it or not.

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wapo wapi "no brainer" clintons lovers?. they'r rotten and stinks as hell.....kama akishinda tutakuwa na division kubwa na upuuzi wa partisan politics, ambao uta-tlanslate kwenye misery kama ambayo tunayo hivi sasa na pengine zaidi.