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March 20, 2008

Posted by neillevine

About This Editor: I am a writer. Have been writing for other sites, but expect to do most of my future work HERE! My expertise extends from the esoteric such as burning hydrogen to the unpredictability of the stock market and my writing makes me a jack of all trades and exasperated master of none. I have had some influence over national wildfire and water policy and there are hints of a change in energy policy, BUT as Samuel Goldwyn once said, "A verbal promise is not worth the paper it is written on."

         

By attacking NAFTA and going on “Saturday Night Live,” Hillary Clinton reversed a string of primary losses to Senator Barack Obama, winning three out of four. This not only prolongs the Democratic contest for the Presidential nomination, it stretches the competition out over the remaining delegate contests until the tail end, quite likely the Convention, and the competition may not end until long after the shouting has long been played out, possibly leaving bitter feelings all over the campaign trail.

Senator Clinton was running against foreign trade, a practice that benefits this country by creating jobs and producing income and is hard to reverse, especially when it comes to bringing back jobs that have long ago gone overseas and disappeared into the junkyard of history. This country can antagonize trading partners and tell them what they can do with their cheap goods but they can respond in kind as happened during the Great Depression, foreshadowing the return of corner apple sellers and the renewed unemployment lines that can stretch from here to the border. But that won’t bring back good jobs that no longer exist.

The debate about what to do about Florida and Michigan just highlights all the empty rhetoric. Once the rules of the Democratic National Committee were disregarded, it was a foregone conclusion that the votes were never going to be fair. How could they satisfy so many disparate constituencies in an inexact world? And they won’t be fair at the Convention either. The unhappiness will linger throughout the fall election. To no good, it might be pointed out.

Now that Barack Obama is doing so well in the contest for delegates all his dirty political laundry is coming out. His denial that Al Qaida is a danger. The radical inclination of his family pastor. His weakness in foreign policy where instead of protecting and defending American lives and property, he is likely to offer too much sympathy to this country’s antagonists instead of boosting our allies.

All the harsh name calling like MONSTER and black man may only be a symptom of underlying weaknesses in their underlying political philosophy. There may be no end to these faux pas. Political correctness is now a media game. There may also be no way to change what Senator Obama wants changing since ha has NOT specified exactly what he wants to change. It is virtually impossible to change EVERYTHING and nothing worth changing is going to change until he specifically changes it.

There are those who ridicule the political endorsement President Bush gave to John McCain. But he helped re-elect Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman after his primary loss to leftist leaning Ned Lamont and can probably produce a similar surge of support for the Republican nominee. Don’t count Bush out yet.

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