A TALE OF TWO SPEECHES
Obama yesterday: We can put the past behind us. Not the Republican past, because they are our new friends; but the Democratic past.
Clinton yesterday: An amazingly long list of action items, from someone who has been clearly working hard, not to be popular, but to know the issues. (One of my favorites: new ideas for funding to the National Institutes for Health and a new war-on-cancer).
I find Obama very exciting (more later). But I find little reason to 'go for Hope', when there is a job candidate so prepared to jump in running.
Yeah, she's got problems, but neither of them is perfect - Obama is inconsistent and I found his fetching of 'the immediacy of now' to be a sheer fit of expediency (if that's how he felt, why didn't he bring that up early last year, when asked why he was running?).
So, you can use gender stereotypes to Judge Hillary, as AS seems want to do. Or, you can weigh a bucket of hope against a fistful of action items.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
A Bucket of Hope versus a Fist Full of Action Items
