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Barack Obama had a team of adversaries help him pick his vice president.. Caroline Kennedy ran that
committee... Joe Biden was a great pick...Even Bill Clinton said it... Joe Biden rides a little too
high on his emotions but is going to be a great partner and adversary to Barack Obama... When I
heard the pick for VP...for the first time..I thought..good job..well done... |
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Do Americans look at our sustainance in this world as a "game of cards" ? No wonder we are in
trouble! |
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Not at all. You're imagining things. Several feminist groups during the course of this campaign have
been hysterically claiming that Hillary is being attacked just because she's a woman. That's not it
at all. It's just that she's the lesser candidate. She helped begin the war that the majority of
this country wishes had never begun. |
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I don't think you can overlook the obvious. Hillary is a woman and Barack is black. As I watched
the returns from the New Hampshire come in, on MSNBC, most if not all the analysts on camera said
that the "Women" of New Hampshire saved Hillary's campaign. That is one of the most sexist and
overbearing remarks I have heard in a long time. To actually say that women vote because of gender
is ignorant ... No stupid. (ignorant resumes that they know better). The other interesting happening
from the New Hampshire returns is that when it was evident that the polls were all wrong about the
outcome, the topic immediately switched from the vote count to the fact that the pundits were wrong.
Mathews said "I going to get to the bottom of this". Russert said as much. The political pundits are
not political analysts ... There poll analysts. |
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I don’t think Obama has been using the “women card” at all because he doesn’t have to.
It’s only perceived as such if you have a chip on your shoulder.
If anything, Hillary Clinton should, in theory at least, have the upper hand on that argument being
a woman. It would naturally follow that as a female she would garner a significant vote from women.
However, her surname is Clinton, and she comes with a lot of baggage.
Obama was on spot on when he said a vote for him was a vote for the future, not the past. When it
comes down to it, people will vote with their heads and go for the candidate with the least number
of reasons not to vote for them. On balance that’s Obama. |
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I don't think that Barack Obama directly used the "women card," but he may have alluded to Hillary
Clinton's gender in an indirect way, in order to appeal to male voters. On the other hand, John
Edwards did quite specifically refer to Clinton's gender, when she had her now famous emotional
moment a couple of days before the New Hampshire primary. You may recall that Edwards noted that
serving as president is a tough job and he alluded to the fact that a leader must show strength and
power, implying that someone who cried in public during difficult circumstances may not be fit to
handle the job.
Obama has appealed to many independent, male voters. In fact, polls have shown that independent men
tend to favour two candidates: Obama and John McCain. In New Hampshire, Obama may have lost because
these independent voters participated in the Republic primary (thus giving McCain a much needed
boost) rather than the Democratic one.
Let's also remember that in Iowa, the majority of women under 60 years of age strongly favoured
Obama over Clinton, and some pollsters have suggested that this may be the case across much of the
country. Yet I don't think that Obama has consciously played up the "gender card." |
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22 Jan 2008 19:43
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