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Originally Posted by ryberg
Well you can argue that, of course, and there's certainly some merit in that argument, though in the US, many probably have in mind just the sort of things Scott is referring to in his quips, when they think of her experience. Then there's also the more general factor that it is, as some commentators have said, very odd in this particular election year to stress your experience with and preparedness for the kind of politics we've had over the past decade or two, given the public's high level of dissatisfaction with that type of politics and the ability to rally around someone who is telling them that instead we can do things differently. Those two factors together I think remove a lot of motiviation the Obama camp might otherwise feel to try to respond and correct the record more on the experience issue and claims about hers. It may well be working to his advantage, that line of hers, rather more than to hers.
Well I stand corrected!  Perhaps though it's easier to do when you're on the outside, looking in? Dunno.
Interesting to hear that about the race thing and Bill and the reception of that there...
Steve |
On the first part- see, therein lies the trouble for her, right? The fact that many(most) want rapid changes now and that she has been part of the "old" system. She's damned if she stresses her experience- and damned if she didn't. In the latter case people would probably accuse her of trying to "blank out" the past.
On the latter- I think the pendulum was in the middle for a long time over here..... in the middle of the Democrats that is. Their process has been followed a lot closer than that of the Reps- and I think in part that is so because over here many are expecting that the Dems will win.
I think it has swung towards Obama right now due to how Clinton has seemed so..... bitter at pionts recently and how she seemed to become more and more frantic in a way. Hard to explain.
He seems to be taking things with a smile and a stride while she seems to be fighting too much (although that, fighting, is exactly what gets anyone up there in the first place).
People DO follow the developing hype about Obama with scepticism though- mostly because we also get the same reports as you in the US about him not being THE carismatic orator once the teleprompter is gone etc..
I think the main thing for the German "feel" right now- and both would seem to bring that- is a bit of a less confrontational course in international (coughMiddleEastRussiacough) matters............. less confrontational in the sense of going to war, not in the sense of diplomacy or sanctions.