Nothing is going to change unless we put an end to this damn war...
During the Iowa democratic presidential debate last Thursday; Hillary Clinton once again claimed to have the "experience" to lead, and lead on day one.
Well, we all know after you have won anything, you don't lead on day one. I don't know about you, but my experience tells me that on day one, we party, we're generous on day one. Some people call their long gone friends, ex girl friends just to say hello. When you move to an apartment, we settle on day one,we don't lead.
And unfortunately for Hillary, she will not lead on day 1, 2, 2, 4,......999999999999...99
Based on result, her leadership and experience aren't for squad! She is the author of this biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation, she failed back then to demonstrate the quality of judgment required to be president. Some would say that she was fooled by George Bush. Perhaps, but if George Bush can fool her that easily, is there more to expect from her when she meets with smart war leaders?
But George Bush was not the only person who fooled her. Bill Clinton fooled her many times, and the last I can remember was with Monica Lewinsky, the famous Whitehouse intern.
But Monica Lewinsky was not the only person. There is a new story about Bill Clinton fooling around with a Canadian politician /billionnaire Belinda Stronach. Most of this story was written during the time she [Belinda Stronach] was running for the leadership of Canada's Conservative Party.
After she lost the leadership race, she was elected an MP and became a member of the opposition cabinet. She basically did next to nothing there, and then jumped ship to the Liberals just in time to prevent the most corrupts government from falling. They made her a government Minister (just by coincidence, really) at the same time. Again she did nothing there and in a few months they fell anyway and she was expected to run for the Liberal leadership, but showed her first sign of intelligence by keeping out of it.
Now that brings me the life and times of Norman Hsu, the Hong-Kong native, now fugitive who fooled Hillary Clinton -
Matthew Mosk writes in the Washingtonpost.com, (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail
/2007/09/21/hsu_still_a_hillraiser_at_le
as.html),that when it was first suggested, at the end of August, the Hsu had bundled checks from an odd collection of donors, Hillary Clinton campaign stood loyally behind the top donor. [Poor judgment]
The following day, when it became clear Hsu had spent 15 years fleeing a criminal past; the campaign distanced itself from Hsu, announcing it would give his direct donations to charity. And when Hsu's business ventures began to fall under suspicion, the campaign dumped Hsu and the $850,000 he bundled for them, telling news outlets they had been duped, just as had scores of other politicians.
Now the Post reported that the Justice department has unsealed a criminal complaint against Hsu, detailing alleged campaign finance abuses and what they alleged to be a $60 million Ponzi scheme.
But one step the campaign has not taken is to remove Hsu from its official list of Hillraisers. As of this morning, his name still appeared there.
Before casting your vote, you should be asking yourself where her leadership is and judgment in all this is "saletés".
In contrast Obama has approached his campaign as an opportunity to build a movement -- a movement based in communities around issues that matter.
Obama is straightforward, and is clearly about a lot more than his own ego. Unlike John Edwards, Obama hasn't had to "move to the left" or discover that he was wrong about Iraq. Obama didn't discover unions and the rift between rich and poor after losing an election in 2004.
Unlike Hillary Clinton, Obama has been consistently solid on the key issues --by the way, do we really need a second Clinton presidency, framed by lots of hype, which delivers so little in the way of progressive legislation, and so much to Wall St?
Unlike Hillary, Obama speaks about his candidacy, and even his possible election as president, as part of the launching of a new movement to change America.
Ladies and Gentlemen, there are two ways that we can look at next year's election.
(1)We can look at it as an opportunity to stop the endless mudslide of domestic and foreign disasters that have darkened our horizons during the Bush years.
(2)We can look to elect a president who not only looks different, but who thinks and acts differently, a progressive champion who boldly reasserts government's role as protector and up-lifter of the people at home, and who can reinvent American foreign policy as a force for peace, not coercive power, across the globe.
We need a candidate, and a president, who understands that, cannot succeed unless the people are standing alongside him -- ahead of the powerbrokers and money guys -- ready to help enforce their collective will.
At some point, a true leader is a person who builds consensus.
* A real leader should say, "Hey, let's come together and have a plan around a common purpose.
There is no question that Barack Obama is such a candidate and such a leader.
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