Politiks: 2008
Feb. 23rd, 2008 09:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7People keep asking why Hillary and Barack sometimes fight and sometimes agree like newlyweds, but think about it for a second.
Obama is beloved because he is new, and promises a "hope for change," or whatever, right? His policies have all the right sounds and all the right pressure points, to get to the people and move them.
Clinton is respected because of her loyalty and her history of service and her striving toward bi-partisanship, her hard-liner's experience, or whatever, right?
They are both intelligent people. They both have campaign staffers who are more intelligent than many other people, in many other places. They all have to have realised that, in certain states, they are both better served by stressing how much alike they are, and how much they agree, while in other states, they are far better off distancing themselves from each other. On top of that, certain groups like candidates who can get along, while others want to see a fight. That's just how it is.
So yeah, sometimes they're going to fight and sometimes they're going to seem so saccharine sweet it'll make you want to take a drill to your own teeth, pre-emptively.
In Texas, Obama needs to look like a more progressive Hillary, who has always been a friend to the immigrant worker, and Clinton needs to look more progressive than Barack, in terms of job security and economic stimulus.
I'm out.
Obama is beloved because he is new, and promises a "hope for change," or whatever, right? His policies have all the right sounds and all the right pressure points, to get to the people and move them.
Clinton is respected because of her loyalty and her history of service and her striving toward bi-partisanship, her hard-liner's experience, or whatever, right?
They are both intelligent people. They both have campaign staffers who are more intelligent than many other people, in many other places. They all have to have realised that, in certain states, they are both better served by stressing how much alike they are, and how much they agree, while in other states, they are far better off distancing themselves from each other. On top of that, certain groups like candidates who can get along, while others want to see a fight. That's just how it is.
So yeah, sometimes they're going to fight and sometimes they're going to seem so saccharine sweet it'll make you want to take a drill to your own teeth, pre-emptively.
In Texas, Obama needs to look like a more progressive Hillary, who has always been a friend to the immigrant worker, and Clinton needs to look more progressive than Barack, in terms of job security and economic stimulus.
I'm out.
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Date: 2008-02-24 02:49 am (UTC)JMHO.
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Date: 2008-02-24 03:04 am (UTC)Either that, or it'll be a slow slow smoldering.
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Date: 2008-02-25 08:01 am (UTC)Plus, she can be the NY senator for basically as long as she likes.
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Date: 2008-02-25 03:21 pm (UTC)It seems much more make or break for her, than for him, from what I've seen.