Two conflicting ideas surfaced this morning about the top story in the world of Democratic presidential politics.
Was the first black man clinching a major political party’s presidential nomination, Barack Obama, the lead or rather was Hillary Clinton’s future after she came up short in the fight for the prize?
Most news outlets focused on Obama’s historic win, but it appeared to be little more than a footnote on the Web sites for cable television networks CNN and Fox News. Instead those networks focused on Clinton angle prominently.
Is the media obsessed with Clinton or is that story line coming to an end?
(Screenshots taken at approximately 11:45 a.m. ET, June 4, 2008)
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Jack
Personally, I think that Mr. Obama is the big news. Mrs. Clinton will of necessity fade into the background…albeit kicking and screaming apparently.
This must be a “girl” thing.
I don’t know if this is also a “girl” thing or not. However, didn’t Mrs. Clinton ask her supporters (and by extension) the television viewing audience (and by extension of that) the 225,000,000 eligible voters in America (and by extension of that) the roughly half that number who vote…didn’t she ask the following question (in a tone of voice that indicated we are all assumed by her to be as interested in the answer as much as she is):
“…what does Hillary want?”
To me that was downright self-serving. Also, she was assuming an awful lot about me personally, as a member of the voting electorate.
Perhaps she was caught up in the moment. However, I think that she knows exactly what she is saying every time she opens her mouth.
Wouldn’t it have been less arrogant to ask, “…what do those who support me want?” Of course, that happened to be the later theme in her remarks…but too late for the initial arrogance.
I noticed that Mr. Obama wasn’t dancing around the stage with Mrs. Obama, like Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore once did during the early 1990’s…as if they were a bunch of teenagers celebrating a high school event of some sort…instead of the clinching by their husbands of the democrat nomination for president and vice president of the United States.
Mr. Obama wasn’t smiling when he “announced”. Unlike the Hillarys and Tippers of yore, Barack Obama takes his new role very, very seriously. I think he knows perfectly well what is at stake here.
Perhaps this is a “guy” thing.
Jack
- Posted by JackWell said Danby, people need to grow up and start realizing that THEY ARE THE REASON that the party is split. Whether they like it or not you cannot ignore 18 million people WHO DID VOTE for Hillary neither can Obama.
If these so called followers continue with this rhetoric they are going to drive those millions right into the hands of McCain. And each and everyone deserves exactly what they get in the coming years.
Many of Obama’s groupies are too young and inexperienced in the political world and the way it works. By continuing this nonsense you are going to drive away more and more of the constitutents he needs to beat McCain in the fall.
Chill out, and let Obama and the party do their thing and you will see it will all come together. We need to work together from this point on and stop picking on one candidate or the other rise to make that CHANGE possible.
- Posted by ALgod bless bush and his ideals. long live mcain. down with hillary and obama - what a disaster. we thought bush did a terrible job, can you imagine either one of these two?
- Posted by nomis123Hilary Clinton represents our political tradition at it’s most malignant. Last night, Obama’s speech was based on the ‘audacity of hope’, while Senator Clinton’s was about the ‘tenaciousness of narcissism’. That he has quietly deflected her attempts to draw him in to that miasma, speaks volumes about the fundamental change he represents for our country and the world. I did not realize until this morning when I began to read accounts of the election from around the world, how many billions of people have been watching this contest and hoping for this outcome. Yes, our media must of necessity cover the ugly details of the campaign, but the weight of world opinion and empathy for this historic election bodes well for the future of our planet.
- Posted by ted in pdxMrs clinton has left the democratic party vunerable with her presence and with her abscense.
The damage has been done, Toss a coin.
By threatening and defying to go to the convention or to go independent does shows the way she will want to control the american goverment.
She already is controlling the media by not allowing the closed room conversation.
we are giving her to much power to anger us by allowing her to form her theather. People from “above” needs to sit her in the right corner, where she belongs, and do not give her too much credit to her “cuteness”.
The Lion that eats human meat pass that to the cubs.
- Posted by alma ludivina