Obama-Clinton: How private life can harm
- Posted on Tuesday 26 February 2008 - 15:52There is no doubt that Hilary Clinton and her team are now shooting their last bullets in the campaign for presidency. They lost by using conventional ways and they have opted for non-conventional ones, including exhuming ‘private’ pictures that could influence the views of Americans on Barack Obama.
In my view, Obama could turn the pictures in his advantage and his communications advisors should work on that. He has never denied having Kenya blood. He is even proud of it. Wearing a Muslim turban only 5 years after 11 September is not perhaps the best inspiration an American statesman with presidential ambition should have. But so what?
Obama’s team would use this picture to reassure American citizens that he is someone with a great understanding of religious problems in the world. The picture should be added to his argument that he voted against the war in Iraq, a war that contributed to the aggravation of the religious malaise.
What if Obama should come out with pictures about Bill Clinton’s infidelity? Is Hilary’s couple a good example for American couples? What is the debate starts discussing about issues like: how can we trust a woman who can’t satisfy her husband to the extend of pushing him to extra-marital relations?
This is to say that shifting from politics to private life would rather harm Hilary than her challenger.
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- Posted on Wednesday 27 February 2008 09:13I would agree with your remark if you had taken it in its whole context. I am vehemntly opposed debates involving non-political issues such as Obama wearing a Muslim turban or Hilary having marital difficulties. I was suggesting that kind of debate engaged by the Hilary side could harm her as well. Thus, my point is not reflected by that quote but the quote is part of the thought. I am definitely not anti-female and would like to see, one day, a lady elected president of France, of the USA.Et in terra pax hominubus...
- Posted on Friday 29 February 2008 16:23Politicians should be judged by the substance of their characters and the reforms they propose. Period. All the other layers are deterrents from the main issues. The fact that this is in discussion is the evedence. I believe that increasingly the electorate is increasingly issue-focused hence the lack of significant damage to Obama's campaign despite the photo. It is a shame that in the grit of things politics rears its ugly head. I mean this for both sides.
- Posted on Friday 29 February 2008 16:49Politicians should be judged by the substance of their characters and the reforms they propose. Period. All the other layers are deterrents from the main issues. The fact that this is in discussion is the evedence. I believe that the electorate is increasingly issue-focused hence the lack of significant damage to Obama's campaign despite the photo. It is a shame that in the grit of things negative politics rears its ugly head. I mean this for both sides.
- Posted on Friday 29 February 2008 17:25quote:MarkKamau wrote on 29 February 2008 @ 16:49:
Politicians should be judged by the substance of their characters and the reforms they propose. Period. All the other layers are deterrents from the main issues. The fact that this is in discussion is the evedence. I believe that the electorate is increasingly issue-focused hence the lack of significant damage to Obama's campaign despite the photo. It is a shame that in the grit of things negative politics rears its ugly head. I mean this for both sides.
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