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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Hillary’s speech should please Obama
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Hillary Clinton rocked the house, giving one of the best speeches of her career. Wow! Obama could hardly have asked for more.
She paid tribute to her supporters and her campaign, but she still managed to exude genuine enthusiasm for Barack Obama. On the anniversary of women’s suffrage, she paid tribute to that struggle.
She also got off a few nice attack lines against the Bush-McCain team, giving Democrats the red meat the convention hall had craved. She is, after all, very shrewd, and she knows that she still has a great future in the Democratic Party if she is not seen as the spoiler.
Besides, she really has never been the Clinton that Obama has to worry about. The other part of the Clinton team still bears watching.
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Grow up, Hillary supporters
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Diehard Hillary supporters — especially feminists and professional women — risk an image as whiners and cry-babies if they don’t stop complaining about Hillary’s defeat and the way they are allegedly being treated by the Obama camp.
Politics is a tough, mean game, and it’s not for the faint of heart. Take a look at John McCain. George Bush’s surrogates treated him in a way no honorable American deserves to be treated, going so far as to put out ugly rumors about his adopted Bangladeshi daughter.
But McCain understood the game. That’s why there’s video of him hugging Bush at the convention in 2004. If you can’t play the game that way — quickly getting over so-called mistreatment by your rivals — you don’t need to be in it. Hillary’s supporters should grow up.
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Michelle Obama hit the right notes
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted 8 a.m. Tuesday
Even in the 21st century, it’s not easy being an assertive and accomplished professional woman, as Hillary Clinton and many others would attest. Throw in dark skin and you’ve got ready made stereotypes, including that of the “angry black woman.”
Michelle Obama’s job last night was to prove she isn’t angry or cold or mean or somehow un-American. She did what she set out to do with a speech that focused on family relationships and was delivered in a warm and casual tone. She waxed sentimental talking of her father’s illness; she also managed to remind voters that she grew up working class, in an apartment so small she and her brother virtually shared a room.
If she keeps that same tone and focus for the rest of the campaign, the McCain camp will have a harder time caricaturing her as Omarosa.
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