WHITE HOUSE STRUGGLE TURNS ON A DIME - TIME FOR CANDIDATES TO LOCK THE LIPS AND OPEN THE EARS
You are about to witness a nail-biting drama of epic proportions, one that may sway back and forth for the next 60 days. New national polls suggest that top-tier Republicans now lead Hillary Clinton in a head to head match up. No surprise here. This is a fickle electorate, fed up with most of the choices, longing for something new after 7 years of government by decree. The voters dislike Bush, but they also have a long memory of the Clinton years, and not such fond ones at that,
Voters are also blaming a rather lackluster Democratic congressional leadership for the fact that we are still mired in war, with our economy at a breaking point. As I said previously, we are moving back quickly to homegrown issues like education, social security and the biggest of all, money.
What is missing in this campaign is new ideas. My suggestion to the candidates: cut the pontificating and fire the pollsters. Do what Obama is doing in Iowa –get together with and listen to small groups of people. The people will tell you a lot more about this country than you know.
Listening is a powerful tool.
Hillary Clinton, Rudy Guiliani, and the other wannabees would be wise to listen to a people’s debate about the issues.
Let me be the first to suggest that one of the networks broadcast a series of town forums called, “The People Speak.” We need open microphones and unlimited time to listen to what people are saying. Pollsters give you stats. They rarely give you the reasons why people are thinking like they do. This could follow the format of the Next Mayor and Great Expectations project at the Philadelphia newspapers.
If Clinton , Obama, Guiliani, McCain, Romney and Edwards want to win badly enough, they will make listening their first priority.
The people need to set the campaign agenda, which is so far muddled in re-branded old thinking, promises of more spending, and Republican candidates who flip their views on a moment’s notice.
It is time for the contenders to shut up for a while, and let the voters debate the issues in open forum.
larry,since the bush and chaney regime has been in the white house we’ve had- 911 attack on our country/a endless war in iraq/3000 american citizens dead/4000 american soldiers dead/outing of a cia agent/300 percent profits to the oil companies/lie after lie and just think in a another year bush and chaney will be retired and living like kings on their ranch and not giving a damn about iraq, how can a republican be considered to lead this country.
i will endorse hillary and it will be nice to have bill back in the whitehouse too.
what side of the tracks do you stand on larry?
Hillary clinton wants to turn america into a socialist society. that means MOST OF YOUR INCOME WILL GO TO TAXES WITH NOTHING LEFT FOR YOU TO LIVE ON. Is that what you want? Go from one bad to another. She is quoted as saying that americans must lose some of thier freedoms for the common good. That is not democracy, it is communism. Hillary Clinton is a communist, plain and simple.
it’s people like that last foolish comment that put this great country in such critical condition,with their blind faith to a idiot and a lying/thief,i cannot wait for hillary and bill get back in the whitehouse! and hopefully they can bring this great country back to good health (they will need 8 years i am sure).
Bottom Line:
Republicans tell ya upfront they are gonna screw the average taxpayer in favor of the rich taxpayer and then they do it. Democrats tell ya they are not gonna screw the average taxpayer, then they do it, just like the Republicans.
As Ozzie Myers once said “Money talks, bu11sheet walks”.