Hillary's hitting Barack on experience -- so he's started upping the ante on her electability problems.
Here's what he tells the Des Moines Register:
"I believe that I can much more effectively attract new voters, and Republicans that have been disillusioned with the other side, and independents who are trying to find a political home, and potentially create a working majority for change," Obama told Des Moines Register editors and reporters. "Now what we know is that that will not happen with Senator Clinton. That's guaranteed."
-- Glenn Thrush
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Senator Obama should not forget, That Hillary Clinton is attracting hispanic votes, her presence has awaken the latino community, several thousand of them are trying to become U.S. citizens so they can vote for her. If you ask an hispanic who Obama is, probably he or she will answer, does he play for the Yankees or Boston?
I think Hillary's assault on Obama of late provides the voters with telling insight into how she would run a general election campaign, should she get enough electoral votes to win the Dem nomination.
It would be a negative campaign on her part and most likely a negative campaign on the Republican nominees part, designed to turn off voters and push down voter participation. Maybe she would be able to squeak by a victory this way, but it wouldn't be with any kind of mandate to institute change, and the country would only be more divided and more disgusted by our government.
In contrast, with Barack Obama as the nominee, we would have a general campaign focused on the issues and the message of the fierce urgency of now, the need for change that we can believe in. What a healing and positive force for good that would be, and how it would speak to Republicans, Democrats, Independents, and others who have long been turned off by our stalemate, poll-driven governmental ways.
This is what Barack Obama brings to the table, more so than any other candidate. Already in the primary race, his presence has been responsible, I feel, for making the candidates talk about real solutions to real problems, for being honest about what we face in the near future with respect to Social Security, immigration, health care, and the environment, if we fail to wake up to reality. At the same time, he offers us hope and a politics and governance of hope.
When we lead through hope, not fear, we begin to approach problems in a process of dialogue, of opening up, of recognizing differences, and of embracing our commonalities. This is the fundamental difference between him and every other candidate, Democrat or Republican.
Obama is a great candidate, but when you say he brings hopes and all that, it reminds me of Gary Hart in 1984. Gary Hart ran on what he called "New Ideas." As Walter Mondale said "where's the beef?"
Obama brings hope because he emodies the American dream. We all want to live in a society where people can accomplish whatever they can due to their abilities and not because of their race.
What Obama brings is a lot naivete, which is not becoming of a Presidential candidate. When Obama is willing to meet sworn enemies of the United States, he shows me he has no knowledge of diplomacy.
So what I'm saying is Obama is a great person and shows us hope. He's the future, but the future is not now.
I trust Barack Obama 100 %. My vote will be for him!