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Gains & Tactics
Democratic hopeful Hillary Clinton is using new tactics against rival candidate Barack Obama.
Originally I had not intended to speak out on this particular topic, but I wanted to bring a bit of information to everyone's collective attention. We hear a lot of numbers, in terms of debt our economy is suffering from, the number of troops that have sacrificed their lives in the war, and a number of other social ills affecting our country.
At the moment, there are over a dozen men and a woman, I might add, running to effect change on those issues through leadership as the next president of the United States. Politics has always been viewed by many as a dirty business, but what if it were possible to stoop to a new low?
How would you feel if you heard that one of the candidates running for office was charging one of their opponents as "calculating" in their attempts for the presidency by citing their kindergarten and grade school papers they wrote on wanting to be president? What would you think of that?
Well it appears that's just what Sen. Hillary Clinton has done. She's out on the attack, arguably due to the fact that Obama appears to be ahead at the moment in Iowa where he is arguably taking away the black female voters who would otherwise vote for Clinton. I stopped by another blog just to see what other people thought about this, and I was shocked to see the amount of responses people have left.
I don't presume to know, or be familiar with the level of work, detail, sacrifice, and commitment it takes to run for president, but I would definitely advise Sen. Clinton not to go back to someone's childhood years to drudge up the fact that they wrote a paper called “I Want To Be President” in making the argument that they've been “calculating" this move their whole lives.
I think there's a phrase for something like this; it's called grasping for straws. Sen. Clinton unfortunately seems to be well versed in that arena and speaks to what she's willing to do in order to win. There's also a word for her attempt: desperate. Perhaps Sen. Clinton should embrace the so-called politics of hope. That way she still might be optimistic about her chances of winning and not stoop to such a shameful level of party politics.