Michelle Obama & Bill Clinton: No Comparison

Of course there is no comparison: it is obvious that the differences are stark: Michele is a (mixed?) black woman, Bill Clinton is a white man. Michele Obama is a wife and Bill Clinton is a husband. Michele Obama is a career woman, and intelligent. Bill Clinton is a former American President, and is a Rhodes Scholar. Not much is presently known about Michele Obama. Everything is known about Bill Clinton. Michele Obama is known in Chicago, and is just getting to be known as Obama’s wife. Bill Clinton is known all over the world and has done work with the former President George H. W. Bush in raising money for Tsnuami Relief, and has negotiated with the major cola companies to remove colas from school across the U.S. (not enough schools, however) because of the rise in childhood obesity and diabetes. Michele Obama needs to be set apart from her husband and judged on her OWN merits as a woman, not just interviewed as “Obama’s Wife”.

Michelle Obama not the same as Bill? Duh. Bill’s been running himself as a co-candidate. The “teo for one, blue light special” with Hillary, because Hillary’s not a strong enough candidate on her own to defeat Obama. The Clintons beleive it’s time for a woman president, espeially the wife of the first black president and since Bill was th efirst black president, the second black president is not as important as now trying to elect the first woman president, especially since she’s the wife of the first black president! What an amazing thing happen. The first black president and possibly the first woman president were husband and wife. The democrat’s demigod idols, the Clintons. The majority of the Kennedys are backing Obama, because the mystique of their dynasty is in jeopardy by the mystique of the dynasty of the Clintons. Since Obama and the Clintons agendas are carbon copies of each other, it really just comes down to deciding which minority is more deserving the unltimate in empowerment. Women or blacks? Which is it? Is the party more sexist or more racist? We all will lfind out soon and the rhetoric of NOW’s New York chapter will seem minuscule to the hypersensitive political correctness rage that will come from the women or blacks that have been betrayed once one of the two candidates has been chosen. We’ve all heard that it’s the Clinton’s turn again in office and Obama doesn’t deserve to be the nominee. Well, that’s interesting. Usually most who support the Clintons say, “It’s time for a woman to be president.” Wow. So that’s it huh? No wonder John Edwards wasn’t given any support. He wasn’t not an affirmative action candidate. That’s wha seemed to matter more for everyone this time around.

Found it rude someone in here talking little about michelle obama base on the ABC interview on comparison with bill clinton comments on campaign trail. Probably to be honest it’s disease sometimes on national television but some listener find it so quick jumping on the band-wagon of fantasy instead of reality the woman spoke right about her position doesn’t mean people should be angry about her freedom of expression.

Another wonderful post by Martin Edwin Andersen (9:43): I wonder if people really realize that this election could make or break this country. Another 4 or 8 years of the same Washington establishment could be all it takes. And Mrs. Clinton speaks of her experience and how, because of it, she will be ready on day 1. Don’t people see that that is the reason not to vote for her. She IS part of the Washington establishment that we need to change. As for this article: Mrs. Obama speaks with the same gratiousness as her husband usually does. She would be a fine First Lady.

So, what will you do for our failing economy Mr. McCain?
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Friends…
I will bring more war to America…
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Uh, what about the economy?
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Friends, I will keep us at war – NO ONE ELSE CAN LIKE I WILL!
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But, what about your lying regarding Romney’s stance on a “pull out”?
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Friends, I am the greatest general since Patton… In fact, Patton couldn’t even hold my shorts.
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But, what about taxes… and your stance on allowing illegal immigration?
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Friends – NOBODY knows war like me… NOBODY, DAMMIT!

Denise: Remember one thing, if the public didn’t like Bill Clinton they would not have voted for him the second time. And if he could run again I bet he would win. You probably weren’t around or too small in 1961 when JFK got elected. Now there was a president that can never be replaced. After that we didn’t have a good president until Bill Clinton. There are a lot of people out there that sill like him.

Two-cats, you are right on. And by the way, experience is good not only because it demonstrates competence, it proves you can do something, but it gives us time to see what you’re really like. I have no idea what Obama is really like under pressure (because believe me, being a state senator is not comparable to the pressures and rigors of presidential office). We probably don’t even know the extent to all the scandal and ridiculousness that we can dig up about him, and we most certainly don’t know how effective he really is at implementing his big ideas.

I have just begun to read with great absorption and benefit The Audacity of Hope the #1 best seller NY Times by Senator Braack Obama. May I highly recommend that in addition to posting what you do not know about Mr.Obama (lack of experience, fluff,etc.; nor what you don’t know about Hillary the coat-tail-rider of former president Bill who you rate as smart and very experienced) you read their books. Senator Obama writes very insightfully and palpably of Washington and governance with examples from early presidential administrations, recent presidential administrations, and the administration of the future he will lead. And DOUBTLESSLY Senator Obama is a leader. Look at his campaign. Look at the seasoned men of Washington and across the nation who have entered his camp–including the icon and lion of the senate Ted Kennedy. Look at the unions and press that endorse him. He wins all of this people support and donors, donations of piles of money to run, even though Hillary can claim 35 years of experience because she is way older than Barack. Have a look at Hillary Clinton’s book too if it is still in print of the title “It takes a Village” on issues of child development and advocacy for children.
Barack is Hillary’s equal and more because he is a brilliant, and a honest leader, and inspires voters of every generation. He brings Politics in Action 101 to all, especially new young voters who used to think their vote did not matter.
If Hillary Clinton were by far the best choice in the minds of experienced and well schooled voters, why are they lining up behind Obama? Answer: He is a leader for hope and change of a better governance, society at home and abroad. Smart men who worked in Bill’s campaign years ago don’t work for Hillary’s campaign. Bill’s ex-smart men work for Senator Barack Obama.

Victoria: Anyone these days can write a book that inspires, scares, motivates, etc…but we need more then that in a President. The media has been given him a free but I know “if” he were to get the nomination then things would change for the worst for Obama. He gives great speeches but some of us need more than that. We need substance.
Michelle Obama has not been in the public eye before as she is now so sure she is persived as a fresh face. “If” Obama is elected the Nominee, the Republicans will start digging deep and personal. Not sure either is going to like people prying into their personal lives or how they would handle it. EVERYONE has skeletons in their closets.
I think Hillary has been devoured by media and critics and yet she is confident and poised. She is tough for good reasons. This is were EXPERIENCE really matters.
No one can get it right every time. I find that comment a bit arrogant.
Hillary 08

Come the day after the Presidential election and we all return to our normal lives will our lives be better? Most of our Presidential info will be delivered via press releases from the White House Secretary not soaring oratories. The President will need to execute policy affecting all of us not specific voter groups. People will no longer care the President is the first anything.The lives of the President and the first person will have been stripped bare and the worse will be yet to come. Time for talk will be over and we will wait for promises to be delivered and hopes to be fulfilled. My reasons for my choice will need to be based on tomorrows reality not todays rhetoric as that is when bills will still have to be paid. I too want the dream but I cannot forget I live in reality. I do not know if Hillary is the best choice but I want to know if Obama is before my chance to choose is gone. So the media need to stop being his pep rally and do the right thing and explore him in detail as well because the Republicans will be merciless. Then it will be too late for the Democratic establishment to protect him. Then what will do if we find out we got carried away by euphoria.

The name Obama means love and unity for anyone that wants to tarnish the name Obama. Anyway, it was nice to see Hilary doing the right thing last night and talk about the issues facing America, and stop bashing Barack. Too bad her husband cant keep his mouth shut, he still thinks he’s running for president.

There is NO comparison between Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton. Michelle has class, intelligence, logic, and will be a wonderful First Lady. Billy is self-absorbed. He only thinks of himself–a has-been that appears to have no self-control. I have no respect for the Clintons, he lied on national TV to all of us and Hilly stayed with him just because of politics. These two people have no shame. They will do anything to get in the White House. Obama ’08

As usual, Americans are doing their best to miss the point by looking at things only from the superficial. This presidential elections of 2008 has a much higher and a much deeper meaning than just the superficial nonsense of politics and political parties. If anybody thinks that a black man and a white woman are running for president in the United States of America in the year 2008 is just coincidental, then Americans are still not getting it and the world is in real trouble. Everything that happens, happens for a reason and has an important meaning and never more so than in this year of 2008. Barrack Obama and Hilary Clinton symbolise the opportunity that humanity is being given, once again, to become whole, balanced and integrated in order to make the quantum leap that is absolutely vital not only to the continued existence but also to the evolution of the human race. We are now at the turning point and have between now and 2012 to make up our minds, individually and collectively, whether we wish the human race to continue to survive and evolve, or whether we wish to become extinct. In Barrack Obama and Hilary Clinton you have the male and female, black and white, the old (Barrack Obama’s roots go back to Africa and to that region of Africa credited with being the place where the first humans have been found) and Hilary represents the new world. In this year of 2008, a No. 1 year, which means a year of new beginnings, all the energies that Barrack Obama and Hilary Clinton represent have to come together in an integrated, balanced whole in order to ground the energies that will pave the way for wonderful miracles in the years ahead. In this year of new beginnings of the 21st century, it is time for America to truly grow up; to stop talking about the past and war and trying to base its present and future on war and fear. It is time for America to grow up and understand what being a super power truly means. Super power does not mean that you can march in anywhere you like and do whatever you like just because you believe you have the military might to do so. That is not true power. That is just being a spoilt brat. Super power means Christ power – the power to feed the hungry, to heal the sick; the power to chase away sorrow and bring joy; the power to create miracles that changes lives and lifts humanity up to another level of existence. That is what being a super power is all about. It is the power to serve – to serve humanity and the earth on which they dwell. Being a super power is surely the highest honour that can ever be bestowed on any individual or any nation on earth. So wake up America and reflect on the privileged position that you hold and the true responsibilities that that position places on you. For if you go into this election thinking that it is purely coincidental that a black man and a white woman are running for president in the United States of America in the year 2008, then you are still not getting it, America and the world is in real trouble.

Michelle did not mention her connection to walmart. She was in it as thick as Hillary But bailed out when Obama decided to run.
**michelle obama and walmart find out for yourself. They all have skeletons in the closet and the Republicans will be all over it.

TexBork said it very well. JFK ” When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”
For a generation that moved to the voices of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and all the folk singers of the 60′s to hear Obama is to once again think of the poetry of hope. OF something new, something good.
It’s like finding that we haven’t lost our roots in the long years. I can reach across the years to my 18 year old daughter and say this is what we believed…Obama is that wind of change.

Obama claims that if elected president he will come in to office being ‘Right’ I am afraid of someone who always thinks they are “right” more of the same. Think about it people.

Elinda,
Stop saying you don’t know about Obama. Go and do some research girl. The information is out there. Go and read it!
Cat Lady,
Obama was already a senator when the senate was voting to go to Iraq. Guess what he voted no compare to Hillary. He too was under the press’ pressure. I guess he was smart enough to do not believe The Bush’s administration.
I never voted before because i never believe in an politician. But Feb 5th i will. You know why? I finally found a politician you speak the truth.
To let you all know Hillary said is she knew what she knows now she would never vote to go to Iraq.
I would like her to answer why did she vote yes to give the same Bush’s administration the power to attack Iran.

I want all of the Obamathon supporters to realize that I was impressed with his appearance, his calm, his great style. I will vote for him if he wins, no doubt about that.
I just believe that if you strip away the desire to apply even more golden clothes to the emperor, you cannot possibly compare ‘beliefs, hopes, dreams’ to fact, figures, dates, bills, and actual events.
Obama is getting it both ways when he says ‘I would have never . . . ‘ or ‘I would have done that differently . . . ‘. He is able to say what he would have done, without facing the consequences of his actions. How convenient. In hindsight, and it seems in his general view, he can remain 100% correct on all issues, in all discussions, involving anyone that steps up to the challenge.
The point here is that he wasn’t elected to high office at the time of these momentous decisions, and when faced with supposed facts, from sources one would think could be trusted, he did not have to face the wrath of his choices.
And as for experience, just what incredible levels of experience has Barrack obtained, and how did he come to this rosetta stone of knowledge? Ambassador somewhere? No. Secretary of anything? No. Department of Labor, Education, Defense, Environment . . . . No.
He has a whole 2.5 years in high office, as a Junior Senator who started running for President after the first year. He was in the state senate for 8 years, and that has its involvments, not on a national scale of course, but still, there are decisions to be made. But let us remember that to this day, Illinois is not some bastion of escape for the ills of America. It has problems. Vast, unaltered prolems.
Chicago is still run-down, old, polluted, filled with crime, poverty, traffic, drugs, guns, pornography (if you care about it, me, its your right to have it), prostitution, low wages, slum housing, communicable diseases, homelessness, lack of medical insurance, and hunger.
I do not see any difference whatsoever in Chicago or Illinois in general, having had Obama in the state house for 8 years. The above problems were there before him. And they didn’t evaporate because of him. The conditions that Mr. Obama found when he entered the state house, were the same conditions he left behind. But higher callings were, uh, calling.
So what, you say. So everything, I reply.
I do not believe that someone who hasn’t been in high office, let alone only lower state legislatures, has the fight, the experience, the know-how, or the qualifications, to be President Of The United States. They just simply cannot prove their abilities through actions. If one has little to point to when presenting their evidence, they do not win the case. Unless your OJ.
But when the state that was left behind, for ego and ambition, is no better off today than it was before your arrival, that may be all the evidence that is required. It speaks volumes. And its speaks truthfully. It is the deeds that you do not the words that you say.
He is a nice man, a well presented man.
He is very articulate. But he is vague, non-descript.
He takes the high road because he can avoid contentious details that way. He votes present on bills that require his decisions, even in the US Senate. He doesn’t take a position and then derides those for the positions they were brave enough to take.
But he is well versed and attractive. Savvy and inspiring. But he is not prepared to lead because he has a habit of jumping positions before he has adequately completed the job he was elected to do in the first place. And he cannot make a tough decision that might have consequences as evidenced by ‘Present’, ‘Present’, ‘Present’ . . . 130 times.
Ambition and a sense of right, like a royal mandate from God, though long dispensed with by Reason, drives the ego to reach for what one hasn’t yet proven their capacity to deal with.
One does not reward ambition with position, unless results prove the merits behind doing so.
There are no ‘merits’ found in Illinois that one can point to as a reason to entrust the defense and governance of the United States, to the purple prose and poetic rhetoric of a junior politician.
Google Illinois and take a peek: Crime rates, health rates, public housing conditions, wages, guns, disease, traffic, pollution, job rates, foreclosures, unemployment, literacy rates, homelessness rates, business failures, bankrupcies . . . there is nothing in Illinois very different than a lot of US states. I know that momentous change is not accomplished by one’s self. It takes a village. But when you promise the heavens and promise the earth, one can reasonably expect miracles from the miracle worker.
But there are no miralces to be found; no real recovery or example of corrected troubles that would cause the Nation to burst through Illinois’ borders, desperate to experience this new promised land.
It was promised, yes.
It just wasn’t delivered.

Wal-Mart – $168K in salary for Mrs. Obama. + $7,200 is stock options, which she hasn’t sold to this day.
$300K discount on a house before the major slump, + dividing property to NOT pay the other $625K. That’s $925K questionable dollars.
I know this doesn’t compare to Clinton, but when you have the same NeoLiberal or NeoCon hypocrisy, it has to be called out.
Mr. Hsu, bad bundler, bundled $72,000+ for Obama and he still hasn’t admitted it or given it back.
’5 hours of billed services’ for Mr. Rezko and the ‘church’ job? – Try 17+ years, dealing with this man, WHILE he was building a very public reputation for illegalities.
130 ‘Present’ votes, 166 missed votes because he started running for President after 1 year in office. He says what he would have voted had he been there? Rubbish. He would have voted Present just like he always does.
The high road is the gutless road. It means you can pretend to be above it all without having a clue what the hell you would do.
Great. Another uniter? Check out Exit Polls on any MSM source and see what a uniter this guy is.
It’s still 75% black for blacks.
It’s still 75% white for whites.
and that ain’t unity, folks.
PS – it takes two sides to create a divide, not just one.

2009 Where are you: You answered my question about the Democrats with a tirade about Republicans. Hey, I’m on your side. I just want to know if Hillary is electable given that in 2000, if things were so good under the Clintons, why did Gore lose to a Republican? And a rather bad one at that. There are a lot of folks who don’t like the Clintons which I guess is part of the reason Gore lost since noone has given me a better reason. So, my question is, can she win in November?????

Michelle Obama was working on the Board of Directors getting paid big bucks and collecting shares of stock as Treehouse was closing plants and putting Latino workers out of jobs. Did Michelle speak out for Latinos and their families? NO.
The Obama’s church was then praising Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader, as the Man of the Century.
Did the Clinton’s cost Latino’s their jobs. No.
Did the Clinton’s embrace Louis Farrakhan. No.

I like how Obama talks about wanting to move forward yet he is still stuck in the past. So what Hillary voted for Iraq Resolution. So did a total of 77 Senators and 76% of the US supported that now.
The Bush administration lied and distorted the truth in a rush to war and Colin Powell presented false information in his speech to the United Nations Security Council.
Obama in admitted in the last debate in Los Angeles that he needed “people around me to tell me know because I am not always going to be right. Check the transcript on CNN. He said it and that alone negates his own argument about “being right on day one.”
And it is not just those ‘present’ votes he made in Illinois but those ‘I pushed the wrong button’ to vote that shows he is just another politician playing games. In Illinois, the vote button’ you press goes toward the count for passing or not passing legislation but after you can change the record by saying you meant something else. The ‘wrong’ vote still counts but the record says something different. Obama played that game 6 times. Each and every time it was to the benefit of groups giving him money and not a vote that represented his people.
That must be where he got the idea of making ‘change’ his campaign theme. Or did Rezki teach him how the game of getting paid for playing the game really works?
Do your research. The Republicans surely will.

Keep trowing dirt on clintons as we belive everything from media

There is lot of common between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Both are moderate, savvy liberal democrats. But since both are vying for the position of presidential nominee they have to exaggerate their difference to show who has better understanding of the present and looming problems.
Both’ scripts are written by their advisers and handlers. It depends on who remembers better and who can deliver better. Both are new to be Presidents, and being Presdent is training on the job and listening to the people and galaxy of geniuses esp economics, defense and foreign policies advisers. Foreign policies are again subject to Western interests and US foreign policies have never espoused the same ideals of the founders of this Great Country. Expediency over Justice and Human Rights is the norm. Resorting to force is natural for the one who is currently the Most Deadly Armed Country. Wisdom, Compassion, Justice and Equality do not need experience. It is easy for even a student to practice. Lets go back to teaching of the Old and New Testament and this is enduring as well as it will rally change the whole world around these life long virtues – Go back to the spirit of Love and Forgiveness as clearly exemplified in the Bible. Simple thinking will change the mindset of seasoned politicians and come down to earth and so much energies and resources can be used to make this world better. We don’t need another 4 years of hard liners and ideologues. We need leaders who will lead by justice, bring peace and make this world better for smart and not-that-smart. For this only Obama can qualify. Too smart too articulate, too much good attorney can not be trusted for speaking truth. They know how to prove wrong right and this is dangerous. Jesus didn’t use force which He could have, but instead led by compassion, justice, equity and above all forgiveness – that is why Christians have progressed and advanced so much, because of their belief in Lord and His Ever Enduring and Illuminating Light to the Mankind. If you apply the current day principles, Jesus would not have got even 1% of the vote, so let us go back to Fundamentals and strengthen the bond of Love, Brotherhood and Friendship and Make Dream of Jesus Come thru. This is also the American Dream. Long live USA and all its Friends and All its Enemies become Brothers too with Ideals as prescribed by the Lord. Let us give a chance to this Dream by electing Barack OBAMA.

One of the difficulties that Hillary has faced this whole campaign is that everything she or the former President has stated has been overanalyzed, critized, and opinded about while many of the remarks that Barack Obama and Michelle Obama has either been taken at face value or have not been discussed. An example of this is when Michelle was on CNN last night. She stated that Barack and her do not see politics as a game or as a sport and they will not do what others will do in order to be elected. Of course no one asked her or even brought up the Obama’s campaigns use of Republican like tactics when it comes to Hillary Clinton’s health care plan by using the “Henry and Louise” type literature, the mailers attacking Hillary over NAFTA when she was not even in the US Senate when it was passed, the radio ads in Nevada that said Hillary did not respect the Hispanic community, or even Barack himself saying that Hillary votes with Republicans when this is obviously not true. I also have to wonder why the press is so adapt to say that Hillary is willing to say or do anything to get elected and then show examples of this but does not look at what Obama or his campaign says or does and how this is done in order to be elected as well

Michelle Obama seems classy, intelligent and as devoted to straightening out our country by ending the corporate lobbyists rule over Washington as her husband.
To Eric, Hillary championed NAFTA along with Bill Clinton. I remember it, as it was when I first realized this couple in the White House didn’t have the working people of our country first in their heart but ‘worked’ for corporate America. NAFTA benefited Tyson Foods and Wal-mart, two huge contributors to their campaigns. As for Clinton’s health care plan, forcing us to buy it is just plain wrong. Listen to the words, that ‘affordable’ health care will be available and everyone must buy it. Who will judge what is affordable? To someone living in an expensive part of the country, paying high rent, they may not have enough left over to buy it on the same pay as someone living in a lower cost of living area. What will be the consequence for disobeying… garnished wages? With Clinton taking huge donations from the health insurance companies themselves something smells fishy there. Barack’s organization did not okay the radio ads put out in Nevada, they were done by independent supporters. Has anyone asked the Clintons about all the bogus e-mails sent out with falsehoods about Obama. Of course not, they aren’t responsible. And on the subject of Clinton voting with Republicans, she was one of the few Dems who voted yes on the IRAN resolution. Do we need another crazy war? And why didn’t she learn from her mistake voting for the Iraq resolution?
Obama has my vote.

She is already winning. She beats McCain and Romney in most polls. If it’s Romney, she’ll get independents if it’s McCain, the right wingers may not support him, that will propel her votes.

USA is falling back and needs a president who can fix it now and not a president who dreams that someday it is going to be fixed

How can Michelle really comment on Bill Clinton aledged racist baiting. It was Michelle herself who stood on stage and pronounced “It’s Our turn now” Does anyone dare ask her what that was refering to! I think not, no one has the strength to ask a black woman about her racist remarks. I found it to be very offensive. Bill Clinton never disrespected anyone. It was the press that took a spin on his words. How about somebody reporting on the truth!

Hillary is running for an office in which she’d wear the political pant in the family. I think Billy should just stay in the background and smile and just look pretty.

Stan, I agree with you. However, I also think he should use his charm skills as foreign diplomat, in a very limited manner, naturally.

Bill; interesting
Michelle; dull

who is Obama,do we really know? Why,I question who and what makes him preident material,nobody in politics is as clean as he is represented are we so ready for so called change we americans don’t want to know his rise in politics, maybe we deserve Bush. Hillary Clinton, she’s been around for decades,we americans know here backround,considering all of the dirt the news media could dig up none disqualifies her from being elected president.During her debate she stated, it took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush ! it will take another Clinton to clean up the 2d Bush mess. THOSE COULD BE THE TRUEST WORDS SPOKEN in this entire campain.

Bill will be too busy to get involved in Hillary’s governing. Someone has to plan the menus for the state dinners. Isn’t that the job of the First Lady. At the very least he’ll have to arrange the caterring from McDonald’s. Sorry, but I had to throw in some sarcasm. I just hate the thought of Hillary and Bill in the WH again.

I don’t know much about Michelle but I know what Bill has done since he left office. He has acted like a senior statesman and rendered great service to the most disadvantaged around the world. He helped aids patients both in Africa and Asia. I feel more respect for him after he has become an ex-president. Bill has no need to do all the good work he has been doing since leaving office. But he dedicates his time and energy to continue the work of helping the disadvantaged. He has won America some residues of goodwill and repsect in this era of “America-loathing” in the world.
All presidential spouses deserve our respect as they have to endure an impossible schedule. But Bill deserves specialy credit for all his work for the world before the campaign, specially after he has had such a bout with heartattack. He has the respect of the world which no presidential spouse can claim.

The level of this campaign in some quarters is like this comparison, silly and absurd. Each spouse is unique and has his or her own contributions. But what does the whole world know about all the spouses? Bill is well-known, liked and respected to a large extent in the world. Bill will be the best goodwill embassador who can restore the nearly totally distroyed American prestige and goodname in the world.

who is these woman ? no one know who she is ???????? she will never be like bill

By the way, Nixon was the one who has created the whole nasty mess of HMOS. Nixon hated Americans and when he heard that Keiszer had a plan which could give Americans less medical care for more money, he was all ago. Bill does not hate people, specially Americans. Wonder why this poor guy was so angry when he heard that he and Nixon are of the same kind. Whoever made this comparison should have his or her head examined and given a simple history book about the 1970s and 1990s.

I’m a young Hispanic female, and very concerned over responses about Michelle Obama being interviewed by “Black” reporters. I don’t see comments about the Clintons being interviewed by “White” or “Female” reporters. It’s not Obama, but people like these (including the Clintons) who keep bringing up race. Since this is the case, I cannot trust the Clintons to be political representatives for “ALL” people!!!

When Washington became president he hadn’t had any “experience” as a president.
When Lincoln became president, he hadn’t been married previously to a president.
When Roosevelt took office, he hadn’t been president before he became president!
What is this “I’ve had experience” garbage!? Enough, already.

January 31, 2008
Towering economist endorses Obama
Towering economist endorses Obama
Barack Obama’s stock in financial circles rose on Thursday, after winning a highly unusual endorsement from one of the biggest names in economics.
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, the cigar-chomping economist who crushed inflation for good in the early 1980′s, issued a statement endorsing the relatively inexperienced Obama. The statement appeared first on the website of the Wall Street Journal, and the journal story then was posted on Obama’s campaign website.
“After 30 years in government, serving under five presidents of both parties and chairing two non-partisan commissions on the public service, I have been reluctant to engage in political campaigns. The time has come to overcome that reluctance,” said Volcker’s statement.
“However, it is not the current turmoil in markets or the economic uncertainties that have impelled my decision. Rather, it is the breadth and depth of challenges that face our nation at home and abroad. Those challenges demand a new leadership and a fresh approach.”
The endorsement from one of the most revered economic figures can only help deflect criticism from his opponent New York Sen. Hillary Clinton that he lacks sufficient experience.
“It is only Barack Obama, in his person, in his ideas, in his ability to understand and to articulate both our needs and our hopes that provide the potential for strong and fresh leadership,” Volcker said in the statement. “That leadership must begin here in America but it can also restore needed confidence in our vision, our strength, and our purposes right around the world.”
Volcker was appointed Fed chairman by President Carter in 1979, and handed over the baton to Alan Greenspan in 1987. Volcker steered the economy into a profound recession in order to snuff out double-digit inflation, and thus put the U.S. economy on a firm footing for the tremendous growth of the 1990′s.
More recently, Volcker led corruption probes into World Bank and United Nations programs.

Posted by: Two-cats,
There isn’t much to know. What are you looking for illegal and immoral acts he might have committed? You need not look any further than the Clinton’s, if that is what you seek. There is plenty of info. out there on both of them.
As far as the article, well of course they are different. The Clinton’s, both of them, are criminals, ammoral, etc. people……that’s the difference. We know you all are disappointed more dirt hasn’t been dug up but, well not everyone is as morally challenged as those two. And I won’t live through another 4/8 years of some “vast Right Wing conspiracy…” in order to make deflect attention from their actions and/or to make excuses for their actions, pathetic.

Vote for the candidate you believe in. That’s it, and who cares about what their spouses say. Even though I must admit Bill Clinton is a different kind of spouse because of its unprecedented nature.
I think I am strong, smart, and know clearly what the choice I should make. I choose Hillary who I believe to be the best candidate for president. After the last debate, I’m more convinced than ever that I made the right choice.

Mr. Unite Us,
Maybe the LA Times broke it’s 36 year endorsement hiatus because On April 2, 2007, the Tribune Company announced their acceptance of Sam Zell’s offer to buy the LA times. With new ownership comes new bias.

How can one suggest that due to Obama’s so called “scandals” the Republicans will jump all over it; and then that same person supports HRC?

Is very easy for Obama to defend his record, he does not have one.

The reason experience is so important also is because it denotes longevity, prolonged existance, durability, endurance and that takes strength. The new faces of the Obama’s are nice, but what do they stand for really? I have not heard much from Obama himself other than using the Clinton word of “change” much too often. What change? What kind of change? I have seen through many presidential campaign candidates promising change. Probably about 12 campaigns where the ” c” word has been used. There is never an explaination on what kind of change, nor how will change occur? Mrs. Obama doesn’t seem to portray the word change. She is a black woman, married to a black Senator, who has friends like Oprah financing his campaign against a woman candidate. That is all we know at this point, and one has to take the ” c” word into context and with no definition on how that change will occur – it just seems like a very hollow overused word.
To compare Obama to JF Kennedy is like comparing apples to oranges. There is no resemblance other than age which is not the test of a President, nor a valid argument for change. George W. Bush ” changed” things drastically for the worse, and yet it was enormous change, but was it good for the country?
George W. Bush was also inexperienced with foreign policies other than he destroyed them.
Was that change? Yes it was.
Change is a idealogy that needs to be defined about the quality of change.

I just thought I’d say that to attack Michelle based upon the magnitude by which Bill Clinton’s celebrity dwarfs her mere existence… That is part of the sweeping change I like about Obama’s campaign: restoring things back to a time when the addage that Anyone who was good at a thing or two and an American citizen could become the President.
Historians wouldn’t dream of taking the crown of “Top 5 Greatest American President” away from Abraham Lincoln, and he was born in a log cabin and accomplished things in much the nitty gritty way Obama did.
If you’re concerned that Obama would be a simpering ninny doing on-the-job training, I’m sure being a constitutional lawyer gives you some idea of how the President functions and he has a rather comprehensive plan for everything on his website. His campaign is telling us that we are now going to be expecting competency in the branches of government that help him succeed as a President. This isn’t all about him. It’s gonna be about us, and I think that’s what worries some people. I think his number of inactivities throughout the years have been more of a reflection of how powerless some of the exercises of being part of the lower branch of government may have appeared, and he has spent more time trying to figure out how to broaden the horizon for the Democrat that doesn’t have enough of a majority to get anything done in their states.
Some folks want Hillary because she looks like another person onto which the burden of hard work can handed off, in an idolizing role as “our next leader.” I like how much accessibility Obama wants to give the broad public in watching where the money goes in Washington. Whatever Obama got caught up in has never reached the stratospheres of most other candidates. He’s a mere $2.5 millionaire and everyone else is worth eight figures…

Martin Edwin Andersen’s comments in response to this excellent ABC article and his endorsement of Barack Obama was simply outstanding.

Shame on your for disprespecting this woman. She didn’t say anything mean or nasty about Bill. Anyone else would have listed all of his misdeeds in order to list why he/she is BETTER than he is, but she didn’t do that. You are as classless and pathetic as the people you support.
Disprespect cannot be shown to someone who dares even try to make a comparison to an ex-President…she and him are out of their leagues.

Since Michelle Obama stated that she will not support Hillary Clinton if she wins the nomination, does that mean she will support the Republican Party? Her petty remarks make it clear that she is clearly not ready to be the First Lady and perhaps being a politician’s wife is not her calling. Her remarks were not worthy of a Presidential Candidate’s wife.

Who does Mrs. Obama think she is to even makes the samllest comparision of herself and President Clinton. The Ego for her and her husband is running a muck….give me a break. You and your husband are lightweights…that have the U.S. believing your the future. Give me another break….go home both of you and get some seasoning….and put your Ego away…especially Mrs. Homemaker….and Never think you could in any way be compared to and X president…. our country HAS to have someone who can get things done….and frankly the Clintons both know how to do that….do you Mrs. Obama? I think Not…We need to hope this country finally see’s thru the smoke and mirrors…but they did not for 2 terms for Bush…now the new guy in town thinks he can make it right becasue he has all the answers….what are they? Thats one thing we have not heard out of your mouth…just smiles. Good luck America another nice guy…that will clean up our problems….Do not fall for this something new…Save me from you pie in the sky guys…Been voting for almost 50 yrs, and this one is the most important…do not make another mistake and elect Michell and Hubby….

Well it’s easy to say that Obama lacks experience but I can’t understand what we mean by “experience” when it’s been mentioned.
Someone was saying that we don’t know what Obama is like under pressure…I guess you should try becoming the Harvard Law Review Presdent and see what it’s like.
This election is not about race or gender, it’s about elcting a person that can take America forward.
We all have our flaws no one is perfect…but some people are more perfect than others.
Ruling a country like America should not be about playing politics as that decision affects other parts of the world.
What we should do as the voters should be to make sure that the most competent person wins, putting all our biases aside.
Some of us seem to be carried away by the people instead of looking at tha substance they offer.

Mrs O maybe fooling a lot of people but she doesn’t fool me when she commented about Mrs Clinton that “if you can’t run your own family, how do you expect to run the White House”. Why didn’t the media make a bigger deal about this from Mrs. O’s stump speech on Jan. 23rd [give-or-take a day].