With all due respect for the ways in which the 'casters' can very much control the angle of vision that shapes the television monitor's eye and ear on different candidates, Hilary remains a problematic figure for me in ways that are different than Obama who is still relatively 'unplumbed' as a public figure. I know what things he would protest - such as the war in Iraq, including working towards immediate withdrawal - but I don't know what Obama would do to actually change things in the operation and direction of the government. But maybe I am not paying close enough attention, or maybe we are still very limited in what can be rendered about him as a potential President
Hilary, on the other hand, does comes with baggage in relationship to the affairs of her husband as both Governor and President. Why did she - if not for purely opportunistic reasons - continue to subject herself to his indiscriminate liasons? Was she responsible for sending 'them' on their way in ways that would make many folks a bit scqueamish, to say the least. If you can afford it, that might be common fare among wealthy couples - I don't know. But would her sense of protecting the relationship in order to further her own political ambitions - as seems the case - infect the way, as President, that she would handle domestic and international relations? Would she, for example, have the courage to stand-up and reject this Government's military and financial support for Israel's (outrageous) settlement and occupation policies in Gaza and the West Bank. Or would she continue to cast this country's blind eye at one of its most dangerous 'marriages'. Or do we know
enough that Obama might cast a fresh eye on the neo-con folks that have wed the USA to elements within Israel to produce conflagration's in the mid-east that we are supposed to so blindly support?
Within the inevitable limits of geo-real politik where does Hilary's experience really point to?? More or less disasters. "Green" or not, this is where I suspect Obama comes out ahead. I think if we dwell too much on the toxic nature of gender relationships in this country - heart versus non heart, etc.- we run the risk of clouding or obscuring some very important stuff.
Stirring the well, no doubt!
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
sharon brogan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: also: Hillary, vs. Obama
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On 1/9/08, Sheila Murphy wrote:
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> Watching CNN last night was not only aggravating, it was infuriating. The
> treatment of the Clinton campaign was despicable. Seemed to serve as a
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> direct example of manipulating perspective. Under extreme duress, the
> victory was acknowledged by 'casters.
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> Interestingly enough there was constant reversal of the sequence of names:
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> and C, versus C and O.
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