What Hillary Clinton and George Bush Have in Common

George Bush and Hillary Clinton both share a politics where they are disliked by large numbers of Americans and rather than try to get their numbers up, they are reduced to trying to get their opponent's numbers down.

Hillary Clinton entered this campaign with about 45-46% of Americans who would never support her. After one negative tactic after another her positive support has gone down and the number of people who will never support her has gone up.

This is why Barack Obama runs significantly ahead of Hillary Clinton in match-ups against John McCain and among political independents who usually decide elections. Obama reaches outward, upward and sideways while Hillary reaches backward, downward and yesterday with negative commentary about her opponent overwhelming anything positive she conveys about herself.

Hillary Clinton embodies the politics of the Bush years; Barack Obama embodies the
politics of the post-Bush years.

Comments

[mommadona]

Short and Sweet.

Clinton and Bush have much more in common than not:

NEW YORK, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Real News Project reports exclusively today that the engineer of George W. Bush’s rescue from financial disaster—a man who would propel Bush on the path to elective office—has quietly moved into Hillary Clinton’s inner circle of key financial backers. The engineer is longtime GOP backer Alan Quasha. His mysterious Harken Energy drew intense scrutiny from investigators and the media in the early 90’s and again during Bush’s first term because of its dubious financial practices and board members connected to the corrupt Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). Along with a business partner, Quasha has been forging new links with Clinton and her associates for several years. Among other things, they have raised substantial sums for her, and in 2005 they discreetly hired Clinton confidant and longtime Democratic Party money man Terry McAuliffe, providing him with a lucrative temporary perch until the Clinton campaign formally launched with McAuliffe as its chairman.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/27855

[ATLiberal]

That's exactly the problem. It is ok with me if there are people who support the Clintons. I don't understand it, but that's me.

What IS important is that we at least define her candidacy properly. Whatever the rhetoric is, she is undeniably the candidate far and away the most beholden to special interest money. You get what you pay for...

[jackbauer0396]

Exactly why I'm voting for him.


You're brave, though. The Clintonistas are fiesty today. Just grasping for straws because they know the election could be over soon.


Clinton has always been clandestinely negative. Their entire camp has gone overwhelmingly negative of late, though.