The test: Are you better off than you were eight years ago?

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       Senator Obama said that many people fell through the cracks of the Clinton Administration. You know I remember the Clinton Administration well. As I can recall millions of people in the middle class reaped the benefits of an economic surplus, two if I'm not mistaken; smaller government, and peace in the world. So who exactly were the people who fell through the "cracks" as Senator Obama put it in his comments about small town folks. I mean I'm no expert on the issue but I thought poor people benefited from a strong economy like everyone else. Unless theres super poor people? maybe? Does Senator Obama know an underground group of ultra poor people and he's talking about them? Did he meet them during his time as a community organizer? When he worked for Tony Rezko? Or when he was a law professor?

     Hillary Clinton expressed some anger at a press conference in Scranton yesterday and rightfully so. Barack Obama has some nerve trying to throw the Clinton Administration under the bus to save his own hide. This proves he's out of touch with America because many Democrats believe Bill Clinton was one of the best presidents we've ever had. In fact he was the last successful two term Democrat president. So where does this one and a half hour term Senator from Illinois get off?

     Theres a lot of people that hold fond memories of the 90s. Not just with the economic gains but there was peace in the world. Bill Clinton turned around the deficit created during the first Bush Administration. Smaller government and a surplus? That's pretty good I'd say. Barack Obama feels that's not enough. he wants you to need the government. He wants people to depend on the government for a way to prosper in this country.

     Do Barack and Michele Obama just go around criticizing everything they weren't apart of? Anything that wasn't done by them they say it's flawed and needs change. That's arrogance at an astronomical level. That's some dangerous ego tripping there. They act like "johnny come lately" and speak like saviors. But what they are, and people are starting to realize this, their self-centered. They truly believe they are saviors. Why else would he talk like this and not have a slight smirk on his face or sarcasm in his tone. He and his wife truly feel America is deeply flawed and according to her, a mean country in 2008.

      He tied the H.W. Bush Administration and the Clinton Administration together like they both caused damage in the country. That's not only false but it's misleading. So Barack Obama may not be a liar but he makes a lot of misleading comments. That's a bit more troubling in my opinion than just telling lies. With lies it's either true or not. When you mislead people you take advantage of their trust and belief in you. You tell half truths and you wrap them in promises and hypotheticals. I'm begining to think that maybe the Obama campaign was exactly that. One big hypothetical. A misleading tour de force disguised as an American Idol tour.

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Preface

"This position is such an odd one," the First Lady said. "In our country we expect so much from the woman who is married to the President--but we don't really know what it is we expect." The only way for a First Lady to "escape the politics of one's time," Hillary said, is "to totally withdraw and perhaps put a bag over your head, or somehow make it clear that you have no opinions and no ideas about anything--and never express them, publicly or privately." The audience cheered, egging her on, and Hillary became even more combative and self-revelatory. "There is something about the position itself which raises in Americans' minds concerns about hidden power, about influence behind the scenes, about unaccountability. Yet if you try to be public about your concerns and your interests, then that is equally criticized. I think the answer is to just be who you are and do what you can do and get through it--and wait for a First Man to hold the position." - Time's coverage of Hillary Clinton's remarks at a gathering in Sydney, Australia in 1996.

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Rather than starting off with the tired meme of Change vs. Experience as though change can be had without experience making change, why don't we look at Hillary Clinton's experience. The Republicans running seem to be of the opinion that she hasn't any experience, supposedly having never run anything in her life. But then why was the GOP aghast at her in 1992 when she became the first First Lady with a post-graduate degree and a career of her own? Actually, they had known of her from before as a lawyer who had fought against Ronald Reagan's so-called reforms. Hillary Rodham, as the head of the Legal Services Corporation (being appointed by President Carter), led the fight against Ronald Reagan's conservative judicial appointments refusing to meet with them and pressuring Democratic lawmakers to block their confirmation. She had also caused a stir when she filed a successful restraining order against the Reagan Administration for its attempts to squash the LSC from the federal budget.

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