Barack Obama's canidacy is becoming apparently more and more divisive. With terms like Racism and Sexism floating in the air it looks now like he cannot count on long time democratic support. Geraldine Ferraro the one time Democratic Nominee for Vice President of the United States has said in a New York Times that, “I think Obama was terribly sexist.” Compare that with the fact that NBC reported on the air tonight that 41% of the Clinton voters in the democratic primary in Kentucky would vote for McCain over Obama. It is hard to trace why such a division has taken place. The division seems to be happening on just gender lines but also the fact that moderate democrats find Obama to be too far left for their taste. The question now as Obama emerges as the presumtive nominee is can he moderate his message to pick up the rest of these votes and in doing so can he prevent from alienating his current supporters?
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Saturday, November 10, 2007
Hillary can not handle the heat? Plants questions in audience
Coming off a bad week last week things just seem to keep getting worse for Hillary. The media has been covering a story that she stiffed a waitress at a deli in Iowa. Now, a story is coming out that Hillary planted people in the audience this week at a stop to ask specific questions. This is just the latest in a series of events that make us question if Hillary is really going to come clean with the American People. She has consitently refused to give a straight answer on many controversial issues, while she has kept records that involve her during her husbands time in the White House sealed. Hillary appears to be afraid of letting the American people see who she really is. It is time Hillary come clean and unseal her records and actually give the Americans People straight answers to the question they want answers to. It appear that may be too much to ask from Hillary Clinton.
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Lieberman says what we have all thought, Democrats are being hijacked by "paranoid" fringe
Joe Liberman came out and gave an intresting look at the Democratic Party in the Financial Times. In the article Liberman says this about the party:
"The 2008 Democratic candidates are beholden to a "hyper-partisan, politically paranoid" liberal base that could endanger the final nominee's chances of winning next year's presidential election, Joe Lieberman, the former vice-presidential Democratic candidate, said yesterday."
"[Today's Democrats] are inclined to see international problems as a result of America's engagement with the world and are viscerally opposed to the use of force - the polar opposite to the self-confident and idealistic nationalism of the party I grew up in."
Liberman says what those in his party have been afraid to say because they might stir up trouble with the Moveon.org and DailyKos groups that are out there. The fact is most Americans are not supporters of this fringe elements. The Democrats should realize this before they let them define who they are, which is something most Americans do not identify with.