Comments on: Clinton vs. Obama: The Best of American Politics

By: Megan

Megan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:04:38 +0000

Thanks for all the commments!

re: Leah…I am in love with the idea of a roundtable…lets def brainstorm about this later!

By: Leah

Leah — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:45:13 +0000

Tehama and Megan – I was thinking… we should organize some kind of roundtable or open debate on the Democratic Primary ’08… call it something like “The Road to the DNC ’08″… anyway, I forwarded the idea to the head of American Studies but I’d love to brainstorm with the “political scientists” with the “mostest”… lol. Leah

By: Tehama

Tehama — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:41:23 +0000

Your article, and this week’s political climate, just make me want to dig in and put my feet to the pavement in Pennsylvania. So are we going or what?!?

By: Cortney Gift

Cortney Gift — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:45:27 +0000

the only three times a democratic primary took this long . . . democrats lost; infighting is good for ratings and soap opera but bring down shared interests all the time . . .

By: HDLG

HDLG — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:59:06 +0000

This is great, MF. I’ve posted the link to my facebook page. I was heartbroken when Obama lost last night but after reading your article, I have new found faith. I agree that he did get a little complacent and he needs to work on a few things, and if voters in the remaining states are going to see what he’s really capable of, Hillary pushing back is going to make that happen. Great analysis.

By: kiki4phd

kiki4phd — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:09:43 +0000

OMG, I just wrote out this long response only to have it vanish when I hit submit.

Here are the highlights:
You are right on about placing too much on a single human being. I’ve become really concerned that some folks are looking at Obama like the “Great Black Hope.” He is a human being. Rather than putting the weight solely on him, let this be an inspiration to others to go into politics and lead by example.

AMEN to the point about folks getting too comfortable once they’re gotten our support. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Kwame Kilpatrick, mayor of Detroit, all come to mind here.

By: lemu

lemu — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:47:17 +0000

I think i like you. lol

By: miko

miko — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:41:22 +0000

YES MEGAN!!!! YES WE CAN!!!

the reason i love this article is because i think that people (more often than not negroes) suffer from a messianic complex that makes it more difficult for our leaders to truly progress. it’s like we can’t mention the fact that MLK was a womanizer – Obama might be a little green and Clinton might be the one to turn his leaves a little brown. I dig that. I dig this post Meg – you hit the nail on the goddamn head.

BLESS UP

By: 'sco

'sco — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:33:56 +0000

yeah, meg ur right. This is fun, entertaining and captivating.

And, as NYT points out today, is doing GREAT ratings for CNN.

And I love arguing and debating and verbally challenging one another just as the next.

BUT

At some point the left, democratic establishment is gonna have to put a stop to all the campaigning and debating. because a team divided is a losing team.

And Obama and Hillary (unfortunately) are fore the most part NOT leading the same team into battle. So We/They gotta choose one. Hopefully sooner than later.

HERE COMES MISSISSIPPI!!!

By: Leah

Leah — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:27:00 +0000

Wow, Megan you just captured what I’ve been struggling to verbalize for a while now! I’m not a rabid politics person (I’m more interested in observing the behaviors and rationales of candidates and the public electorate)… so it is a bit disheartening to me at time to see the viciousness of supporters on both sides of the Clinton/Obama spectrum… I think the idea that Clinton is challenging Obama to *be* better is a complicated but compelling theory… so thank you for putting it out there!