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This is Barack Obama’s speech where he discusses race in America and the recent outrage regarding statements made by Jeremiah Wright, the pastor of his church.

It is time for a new rhetoric and a new grammar in American politics, and Obama is showing us that it can be done. Listen to Obama and contrast him with what we know from the past 15 years: the spin, the legal acrobatics, and finger pointing of the Clinton administration, and the total secrecy, obscurity and arrogance of the Bush administration. I don’t care if Hillary has 60 years experience at spelling her own name or McCain 70 years loading his own machine gun, it is time for a real change in this country.

Here is a transcript of the speech.

I just read these very good points from Georgie Anne Geyer:

. . . [Hillary’s] mantra now is, ‘I am a fighter. I am a fighter.’ Very well, but what exactly does that mean?

Does that mean she is fighting the Republicans? It does not appear so, not when she says so unnervingly for her party that Republican candidate John McCain is eminently capable of being commander in chief, but that her fellow Democrat Barack Obama, supposedly for lack of her pugnacity and his purported “lack of experience,” is not.

She is a fighter against Democrats — men and women who essentially believe in the same precepts and principles as she does. So the fighter mantra comes down to merely a struggle to advance her own intense and often reckless ambition.

Obama made the point. ‘She had the view that what’s required is simply to fight,” he said, referring to her doomed healthcare plan of the ’90s. ‘And Sen. Clinton ended up fighting not just the insurance companies and the drug companies, but also members of her own party.’

Check out the rest of her article in its entirety: Continue reading →

I hate to dedicate too many posts to why Hillary is an inferior candidate instead of focusing on why Obama is the superior one. Yet I continue to do so. I just read a fantastic column by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times.

First, she reinforces something that I have always believed that candidates must learn about running for office — it is a total shame that Mariano Rajoy, the PP candidate for the Spanish presidency, is clueless about:

[Hillary] has been so discombobulated that she has ignored some truisms of politics that her husband understands well: Sunny beats gloomy. Consistency beats flipping. Bedazzling beats begrudging. Confidence beats whining.

Dowd also does a good job of distinguishing the Obama’s confidence with Hillary’s Al Gore 2000 constant metamorphosis.

The fact that Obama is exceptionally easy in his skin has made Hillary almost jump out of hers. She can’t turn on her own charm and wit because she can’t get beyond what she sees as the deep injustice of Obama not waiting his turn. Her sunshine-colored jackets on the trail hardly disguise the fact that she’s pea-green with envy.

After saying she found her “voice” in New Hampshire, she has turned into Sybil. We’ve had Experienced Hillary, Soft Hillary, Hard Hillary, Misty Hillary, Sarcastic Hillary, Joined-at-the-Hip-to-Bill Hillary, Her-Own-Person-Who-Just-Happens-to-Be-Married-to-a-Former-President Hillary, It’s-My-Turn Hillary, Cuddly Hillary, Let’s-Get-Down-in-the-Dirt-and-Fight-Like-Dogs Hillary.

Finally, with respect to Hillary’s sob story about the press not being nice to her, as I wrote early today, Dowd writes,

Beating on the press is the lamest thing you can do. It is only because of the utter open-mindedness of the press that Hillary can lose 11 contests in a row and still be treated as a contender.

In any event, I truly recommend that your read the piece in its entirety: Continue reading →