Hillary Holds On…Losing Women Daily
The Obama campaign has been on a solid run for a nomination ever since Super Tuesday hit last week, causing Clinton to rethink her tactics for the remainder of the primaries. With a solid sweep last night in Maryland, Virginia and D.C., Barack and his team are gearing up for Ohio and Texas, the make-it or break-it states for Hillary right now. Once confident in her female supporters carrying her through, Obama is stealing this section of voters from under Clinton’s feet. The reason? Judging from exit polls, many women see Hillary’s marriage as an indicator of the candidate’s lack of self-respect and means to gain power – not to necessarily change the nation for the better.
On Bill Mauer’s talk show this past week, the liberal political comedian went out to talk to voters after they casted their ballots. One of the women he interviewed had bad news for Hillary: She didn’t vote for her because Clinton stuck by her husband when he was publicly unfaithful to her. Instead of seeing Hillary as one half of an American power couple with a claim on the White House, many constituents view this history as a drawback to Clinton’s entire platform and campaign; she obviously stayed with him not out of love, but out of commitment and a desire to continue on her own road to the White House.
As the potential first woman to become an American president, such a back-story is not what many American women want representing them in the highest office in the nation.
Of course it’s exciting for the females in the country to so much as have a viable woman in the running for the position, but what would electing a woman who has been publicly cheated on and humiliated say about America as a whole, let alone the so-called ‘fairer sex’ she is part of?
Although the whole race v. gender debate is a topic I rarely if ever consider when looking at the top Democratic candidates, now that Clinton’s history is becoming a problem for her side, I see more potential for a Black president before a woman walking up those pearl white steps. This, however, is not based on either race or gender, but based on the two candidates the Dems have to choose from.
Now that Obama is really gaining momentum, Clinton’s tactics have taken a turn for the dirty. Just recently Clinton ads have been popping up on television sets all over Wisconsin with a negative message against Obama. The mudslinging the Republicans were playing just a couple of months ago has been picked up by Hillary now that she’s feeling threatened. As an American who privileges clean politics in which candidates present their stances on the issues and allow the people of the nation to decide who is best suited to govern, these ads put one more nail in the Clinton coffin as far as I’m concerned. Stick to your politics, Hillary! Obama is and is proving himself to have a much better character in the process. With the lack thereof that has been in the White House for the past 8 years (and, hey, probably much longer than that), the Illinois Senator is a breath of fresh air in a climate that stinks of corruption and lies.
Good for him!