2008 Woodie Awards
Clinton, Obama still vying for votes
Paddy Lehane
Issue date: 4/11/08 Section: Forum
With a week of recovery from the serendipitous haze that has engulfed many here at Guilford, it is unfortunately time for us to once again start thinking about issues of, ugh, importance.
While many Guilford students are enjoying their prolonged vacation here in the Guilford bubble, and are assuming that Barack Obama is the inevitable nominee, the Democratic presidential primaries remain an amazingly intense and still incredibly competitive race.
This is the closest primary in recent memory, and there's a lot riding on it. Many analysts and even ordinary citizens agree that this is going to be one of the most pivotal elections ever.
Subsequently, both campaigns are hitting each other hard, close to, but not below the belt.
Hillary Clinton's campaign has been marred by this nastiness. Many of her top advisers were forced to resign due to personal attacks on Obama.
The most notable, Geraldine Ferarro, who ran for vice president back in the 1980s, basically implied that Obama's rise is due to his race.
Also, Bill Clinton, once expected to exponentially help Hillary, has been accused of derailing her campaign by being continually negative.
Obama's campaign is not without negativity as well. The issue surrounding his relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright has caused a huge uproar. Wright has said that American foreign policy could've played a role in the 9/11 attacks (how outrageous), but also advocated that people should sing "God Damn America" from the rooftops due to its policy towards many of its own citizens.
That doesn't look particularly good for Obama, who's running not only a campaign for unity and change, but also to lead this country that Wright advocates damning.
Obama's campaign and its supporters have also been pushing Clinton to simply concede defeat and drop out of the race. The only problem is, she hasn't lost yet.
The next big event in this primary circus is the state of Pennsylvania. The state has a huge population of white, male, blue-collar workers, which Hillary Clinton has long courted and long had the support of.
While many Guilford students are enjoying their prolonged vacation here in the Guilford bubble, and are assuming that Barack Obama is the inevitable nominee, the Democratic presidential primaries remain an amazingly intense and still incredibly competitive race.
This is the closest primary in recent memory, and there's a lot riding on it. Many analysts and even ordinary citizens agree that this is going to be one of the most pivotal elections ever.
Subsequently, both campaigns are hitting each other hard, close to, but not below the belt.
Hillary Clinton's campaign has been marred by this nastiness. Many of her top advisers were forced to resign due to personal attacks on Obama.
The most notable, Geraldine Ferarro, who ran for vice president back in the 1980s, basically implied that Obama's rise is due to his race.
Also, Bill Clinton, once expected to exponentially help Hillary, has been accused of derailing her campaign by being continually negative.
Obama's campaign is not without negativity as well. The issue surrounding his relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright has caused a huge uproar. Wright has said that American foreign policy could've played a role in the 9/11 attacks (how outrageous), but also advocated that people should sing "God Damn America" from the rooftops due to its policy towards many of its own citizens.
That doesn't look particularly good for Obama, who's running not only a campaign for unity and change, but also to lead this country that Wright advocates damning.
Obama's campaign and its supporters have also been pushing Clinton to simply concede defeat and drop out of the race. The only problem is, she hasn't lost yet.
The next big event in this primary circus is the state of Pennsylvania. The state has a huge population of white, male, blue-collar workers, which Hillary Clinton has long courted and long had the support of.
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Bob Parks
Robert Parks
posted 4/14/08 @ 12:01 PM EST
Voting is a good thing, of course. Its a start. And wouldn't it be great if someone were able to ask Obama and Clinton which of them will support a new "Peace Corp" to clean up the mess created by Bush and the right wing "neo-conservatives"? I put "neo-conservatives" in quotation marks because they aren't really conservative (conservatives aren't particularly interested in global nation building), and they aren't new (Fascist thinking has been around for a long time, and actually didn't start with the Fascists - see Adorno et al, "The Authoritarian Personality". (Continued…)
JohnMac
JohnMac
posted 4/16/08 @ 1:00 AM EST
OBAMA has spent his entire professional life--representing the South Side of Chicago. In those twenty years, not only has it NOT improved, it now looks like a bombed out warzone. (Continued…)
Michael
posted 4/24/08 @ 11:42 PM EST
I hope that North Carolina follows Ohio's and Pennsylvania's lead which will give first-time voters in other states more time to research all of the candidates. (Continued…)
ecbmtrumpeter
posted 4/27/08 @ 2:22 PM EST
Colin Powell made the case against Iraq based upon Military Intelligence, especially Satellite Intelligence, indicating Mobile Weapons of Mass Destruction. (Continued…)
ecbmtrumpeter
posted 4/27/08 @ 2:26 PM EST
According to Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton Biography, "A WOMAN IN CHARGE", she was first introduced to Civil Rights at the age of 15. It was then she attended a Civil Rights Rally by the late great Rev. (Continued…)
Wizard101
posted 4/27/08 @ 8:26 PM EST
I am a senior citizen - African American - and am voting for the candidate of hope and change - for those that have been told that there was no way to obtain their dreams and that it was hopeless then look at HILLARY CLINTON as a symbolic figure. (Continued…)
snarbagel
snarbagel
posted 5/05/08 @ 5:33 PM EST
Hillary Clinton is the best candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. Her work ethic, her tenacity, her fearlessness, her wonkish mind, her dedication, her strength of character, her leadership, her knowledge, her compassion, her competence--all give me confidence. (Continued…)
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