Obama’s campaign has inspired many. We know people will be voting for him Tuesday because he has shown the ability to bring different coalitions together to become a national contender. An Obama candidacy in the general election could also inspire many who have stopped participating in the process to become involved again.
However, we worry about two issues: Obama’s lack of experience and talk of bipartisanship at a time when the Republicans have taken the nation so far off course. The Democrats have an obligation to fix the messes of the past — not make things worse.
On the other side, there is Clinton. Americans should be excited that there is a serious female candidate in contention for the White House this year. But Clinton’s insistence that voters will get a 2008 version of “two for the price of one” is a bargain everyone should pass up.
Many may look fondly at the Clinton “co-presidency,” but we have not forgotten the failures, disappointments, and the indelible stain left in the minds of Americans in the wake of their exit. It is experience at its worst.
After the 1992 election, the Clintons had a mandate to address health care issues. Bill put Hillary in charge of creating a plan for universal coverage. But she fritted the mandate away with secret meetings, ala Dick Cheney’s energy hearings, and pharmaceutical manipulation. Insurance executives were in the loop but the rest of us were not. Seven years later, 20 million more Americans were without health insurance than when the Clintons swept into office.
Instead of getting real health care reform, the president gave us disastrous trade policies that cost Americans millions of low skill, decent wage jobs and then spent $50 billion of the our tax dollars to bailout Wall Street speculators in the wake of the Mexican peso collapse. The Clinton’s “leadership” was so bad it helped usher in a Republican Congress in 1994 and a ton of bad legislation after that, including a fascistic anti-terrorism bill to spy on Americans, a precursor to President Bush’s Patriot Act.
With Democrats like the Clintons, who really needs Republicans?
The former president’s vacuous and factual incorrect remarks in recent weeks against Obama only added fuel to the fire. His presence in this election cycle is reckless, irresponsible, and threatens to tear the party and nation apart.
Clearly, Obama is the better of the two candidates even with his minor flaws. We suggest voters do the best thing for our nation and cast a vote for him on Tuesday.
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