Deal: Clinton's Name Will Be Placed in Nomination at Dems Convention Email Share August 14, 2008 11:09 AM
ABC News' Kate Snow reports: A deal has been brokered between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton that will allow Clinton's name to be placed in nomination at next week's Democratic nominating convention, sources close to the Clinton camp told ABC News.....Read More
Once again, I look for information that will help ME decide for whom to vote. I still haven't decided, but the more informed I am, the better to make an educated decision. I found this interesting article in the Atlantic Monthly online. Here is an exerpt.
Who will win the presidential debates? What does each candidate’s use of words say about how he would govern as president? Can Obama’s rhetorical skills lift him to the heights of Lincoln, FDR, and Reagan—or will his speechmaking do him in? After watching all 47 (!) of the primary season’s debates, our correspondent has the answers—and some harsh criticism for the moderators.
(Final paragraph to this article.....) The argument that Obama would be another Pétain-like Carter, offering his noble qualities only to be overwhelmed by ignoble reality, is the deepest fear about him, or at least the one that most resonates with me. The greatest hope is that before his brief time in the U.S. Senate, he absorbed more practical skills and sensibilities than Carter did in Georgia. Michael Janeway, who as dean of the Medill Journalism School at Northwestern knew the Chicago establishment figures who nurtured Obama’s rise in the 1990s, speaks of “the Chicago way”—“getting all the parties together and taking responsibility for finding a solution.” Under the Chicago way, the fact that Obama’s most important speeches are short on eight-point action plans is a strength rather than a weakness: it’s a sign that serious business will be done.
Peggy Noonan compared this approach to that of the Kennedy administration. “JFK and his people came into the White House,” she said in an e-mail, “with a faith they could be practical, pragmatic, worldly, that with these attributes they could manage what came over history’s transom. I see Obama as like this: things will come over the transom and he’ll approach them as a thoughtful sophisticate. He’ll think.”
For better and worse, if Obama wins, a thinking president is what we’ll have.
Let me begin by saying I do not support Senator McCain, nor do I support Senator Obama and I really do not want another would be "King" for four years. So this is neither an endorsement nor a condemnation of either candidate…merely observations.
The confession is that I am a member of AARP and the question is does that make me less competent or less entitled to a job than someone who is younger?
Age is an integral part of everything in Politics--from Paris Hilton’s answer to Senator McCain (see video clip a the bottom of the blog) to the press’s ongoing bias for Senator Obama because of his “energy” and “young approach”
All other political party platforms aside, and assuming Senator McCain is in good mental and physical health, does age make him less qualified?
Sadly, I hear on the news my children’s generation thinking it is time for the Boomer Generation to step aside—after all, we have had our turn—right? I don’t think so. Most Boomers that I know are active, energetic, intelligent and vital people who still have a great deal to offer. Unfortunately, even many Boomers who would like to retire (not in a rocker, but maybe as a rocker) cannot afford to do so in today’s economy.
In conclusion, I really do not know for whom to vote…perhaps I could write in Betty Boop?
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