Yesterday's gone: With Super Tuesday over, Obama faces new challenges.
Are you voting for Hillary or Obama, and why?
It seemed like a simple question when I emailed it to a few friends last week. But the responses revealed two things. George Bush got elected, twice, because people are stupid. And I need new friends.
To put this election in perspective: We're at war, our enemies are mounting, and we have a bad economy, a crappy education system, a shrinking middle class and millions of people without healthcare, meaningful jobs or hope.
Yet one friend is voting for Hillary because he says America doesn't deserve Obama. (This is almost as ironic as people who said they weren't voting for Nutter because he couldn't win.)
Said friend also believes President Obama wouldn't get any cooperation from the House and Senate to push his change agenda because of his pesky race. (And the highly polarizing Hillary would unite Democrats and Republicans?)
One undecided friend, a graphic designer, said: "Possibly Obama because we've seen what a Clinton is like already--good, but leaves more to be desired in my opinion."
One of my poker buddies likes Hillary because she has "the backing of a former president who maintained decent national and foreign policy relationships. This would be a tremendous aid toward assembling a strong administration."
Ideologically, Hillary and Obama aren't much different. They both want to reform healthcare. They both plan to withdraw troops from Iraq in their first term. They both want to overhaul education. Ultimately, this race comes down to credibility, and maybe I'm being too hard on my friends because I have my own complex reasonings for wanting Obama to be our next president.
Because:
As Matt Taibbi of Rolling Stone so eloquently put it, next to Obama, Hillary sometimes comes off like an angry drag queen.
She turned on the waterworks after (once again) being overshadowed by the coolest kid in school.
She gave Bush the green light to go to war with Iraq.
She keeps lying about what her vote meant.
I was nauseated watching her flip-flop on her immigration stance during MSNBC's Philadelphia debate.
She was the first lady.
She can't beat a Republican.
She's proven she can't control her husband.
Obama is the better candidate.
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