Given my previous complaints about Barack Obama's reluctance to go negative, I'm happy to see him start taking on Hillary, but the grounds on which he chose to do so is bizarre. You don't take down a frontrunner by talking about what exactly she said about Social Security to some voter in Iowa -- it's the wrong issue substantively and politically and, frankly, no one outside the Beltway cares.
Obama later expanded his critique of Hillary not being sufficiently forthcoming about her views to Iran and Iraq, but again, it's not a policy difference. At this point, 95% of Democratic primary voters couldn't explain one substantive distinction between Obama and Clinton. Kevin Drum tries to come up with some ideas -- maybe Obama's people are reading?
Anyway, Obama's coming to Durham on Thursday so I'll hopefully get to see the road show in person.
It's really kind of sad that this needs to be explained to you, but the substantive difference between HRC and Obama is that she triangulates, obfuscates and blows with the political winds...in short, she's a status quo pol who's more interested in poll testing than policy.
Obama wants to change the status quo. I hope he gets his chance as virtually all the current elected ones are so twisted around themselves trying to save their seats they have let this country continue to slide into the mire of the worst problems it's faced in my long lifetime, both at home and abroad.
It's so simple it's hard. He brings new, innovative and thoughtful ideas to the table. She brings what we've been enduring for a generation.
Posted by: G Davis | October 31, 2007 at 12:27 AM