So I just came across a link (is that what they’re called?) on digg.com about…well, you can read for yourself, here’s the description of the article: “Hillary Clinton was endorsed Sunday by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, whose owner and publisher, billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, personally funded many of the investigations that led to President Clinton’s impeachment in 1998.”
According to Newsweek, this was one of “a handful” of endorsements that Senator Clinton received before the Pennsylvania primary (which is today, for those of you who have been paying attention). The paper (not Newsweek, the other one) claimed that Obama was too inexperienced and that his “recent comments about bitter voters living in small towns showed a lack of respect for middle-class values.”
Well, I know this post is supposed to be about Hillary, but allow me to discuss the many issues I have with this endorsement. So, besides the fact that the paper is endorsing Hillary, a person whom I despise in many, many ways and for many, many reasons, the paper is attacking Obama — just like every other news outlet — for “lack of respect” or “elitism” or some other nonsense like that.
But that’s not even the worst of it. Seriously, “middle-class values”? What are those exactly? As a middle-class American myself, I don’t count hating gay people (note the group called “Repent America” which harasses people at LGBT events), being a gun nut, or being so insecure about my religion that I feel the need to foist them upon others as being amongst my “values.” This is, just like every other the term “values” is employed by the right, another bastardization of the term.
Clintonista said,
April 22, 2008 @ 8:45 pm
She’s the most effective individual to deal with foreign affairs, which will be the most important issue of this race in the end. How can we fix our economy without better foreign relations? Clearly, we cannot. Globalization insists upon improved relations and returning the US to it’s pre-Bush standing.
This will be the fourth attempt for Obama to knock Clinton out of the race. He’s been incapable of doing so, which demonstrates his lack of feasibility as a candidate.
There are good reasons why the superdelegates should ignore the Obama Campaigns cries for all Superdelegates to swing for Obama and instead endorse Mrs Clinton. There’s no question that superdelegates will consider electability as a factor in deciding whether to vote for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. Clinton CAN beat McCain in November. Obama cannot if he is on the ticket as President. Him as VP is a different story: http://clintonista.wordpress.com/