It’s all about the Clintons
April 28, 2008
By Shaun Carney
It's a fine line between self-belief and self-obsession when it comes to the dynamic duo of Hillary and Bill.
Is Hillary Clinton phenomenally tenacious or just plain mad? If she is to overtake Barack Obama's haul of pledged delegates, she will have to win 80% of the vote in the eight Democratic primaries and one caucus that remain. Unless something truly catastrophic happens inside Obama's campaign that isn't going to happen. When the final primaries in Montana and South Dakota are held five weeks from now, it's extremely likely that Obama will be the presumptive presidential nominee — even Clinton's supporters must know that. And yet, Clinton's appetite for the battle with Obama is overwhelming. Bolstered by victory in Pennsylvania last week, the Clinton campaign is in a state of near-frenzy in the lead-up to next Tuesday's Indiana and North Carolina primaries.
Why Hillary won’t quit
April 28, 2008
By David Jones
There are all sorts of legends in play about Hillary Clinton's motivations for continuing her campaign in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.
She is obsessed. She thinks she is "owed" the presidency. She believes that it is her turn, and her opponent is an Obama come lately. She made a deal with Bill to stay with him if he supported her for the presidency. She sincerely believes that now is the time for a woman as president. She is deeply concerned over the fate of the United States (and the world) if the country is led by a man as inexperienced and untutored as Senator Barack Obama.
Hillary has cynically turned to the one argument she has left: race
April 28, 2008
By Gary Younge
It is one of the enduring paradoxes of American racism that those black Americans most likely to exercise their full rights as citizens - to vote, to stand, to speak out - are the most likely to be branded as unpatriotic.
The Clintonian Foreign Policy Legacy
April 28, 2008
By Barbara Crossette
That Hillary Clinton has apparently found success in talking tough about foreigners and sinking to Bush-like "politics of fear" only illuminates how little American foreign policy has been seriously debated in the Democratic presidential nominee race, and how little voters know or remember about Bill Clinton's international legacy.
Bill’s Wife Eye
April 28, 2008
By Andrew Cline
Citing President Bush's recent cameo appearance on NBC's "Deal or No Deal," former President Bill Clinton today suggested that his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, might want to appear on a network show, too, "like, I dunno, maybe 'Wife Swap' or something, you know, just to mix it up."
