Tuesday, October 16, 2007

That's the best they've got?

All John Edwards can seem to talk about is how "unelectable" Senator Clinton will be in 2008. Of course the polls show otherwise, as we have shared with you all in the past. I've refrained, as a Clinton supporter, from bashing the others. I feel like all of the Democratic candidates are good people and deserve respect. Barack Obama started off promising a "different" kind of campaign, a campaign of "hope." When that didn't fair well for his dwindling poll numbers, he went on the attack like the rest of them.

John Edwards is basing everything on him being a former Senator from North Carolina. Well the Kerry/Edwards ticket didn't win North Carolina in 2004, so I'm not buying it that he's the candidate to win the South. I don't think we should nominate someone just because he has a smooth style and southern accent. I think you can win the South on honesty, being courageous, and being real - something Hillary Clinton is all of.

According to Real Clear Politics "Surveys also show that she (Clinton) widely is regarded as having many of the attributes needed by a president. An early September CNN poll found six in 10 respondents picked Clinton as having "the right experience to be president," while only 15 percent picked the second-place Democrat, Edwards, and 9 percent picked Obama."

"Surely even a bigger problem for Edwards is that recent ballot tests show Clinton beating the leading Republican contenders, and in most cases, running as well or better than her main Democratic rivals."

Is this all Edwards has got? He can have whatever accent he wants, but his short Senate voting record shows him as being pretty liberal. Nothing wrong with that, except when your whole primary campaign is based on being something other than that.

I haven't been hearing much talk from the Obama camp about Hillary's supposed and falsified "un-electability," they have chosen a different path. Attacking Hillary for votes that Obama skipped, and didn't bother even voting for or against-even though he was so "Strongly" opposed to it.

IS THIS the best you've got guys? Tell America where you stand on the issues. We know Hillary has passed the 50% mark in national polls for the Democratic primary, and beats all the Republican candidates in match ups for the general election - but surely your supporters and those you are interested in courting would like to know about your record and/or your plans for America's future, not just how you are "different" from Hillary Clinton. Isn't your record enough to make you feel secure?

Chris McLeod

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

John Edwards talks about how Hillary Clinton thinks she already has won the election. Cmon people its not even '08.

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Chris McLeod said...

She doesn't think that, her supporters do. Is she supposed to try to rid herself of the front-runner status she has been awarded by the media and her supporters? I don't think that would be a good thing for her to do.