speaker
January 14th, 2008, 09:26 AM
This coming presidential election has more at stake than the future of America. It's an indicator of how big the minds and hearts of the American people really are.
This will probably be the dirtiest but politically correct election, ever.
LAS VEGAS — After staying on the sidelines in the first year of the campaign, race and to a lesser extent gender have burst into the forefront of the Democratic presidential contest, thrusting Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton into the middle of a sharp-edged social and political debate that transcends their candidacies.
In a tense day of exchanges by the candidates and their supporters, Mrs. Clinton suggested on Sunday that Mr. Obama’s campaign, in an effort to inject race into the contest, distorted remarks she had made about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Mr. Obama tartly dismissed Mrs. Clinton’s suggestion, adding that “the notion that somehow this is our doing is ludicrous..........”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/us/politics/14campaign.html?_r=1&exprod=myyahoo&oref=slogin
And:
"WASHINGTON — Republican voters have sharply altered their views of the party’s presidential candidates following the early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, with Senator John McCain, once widely written off, now viewed more favorably than any of his major competitors, according to the latest nationwide New York Times/CBS News Poll....."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/us/politics/14poll.html?exprod=myyahoo
This will probably be the dirtiest but politically correct election, ever.
LAS VEGAS — After staying on the sidelines in the first year of the campaign, race and to a lesser extent gender have burst into the forefront of the Democratic presidential contest, thrusting Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton into the middle of a sharp-edged social and political debate that transcends their candidacies.
In a tense day of exchanges by the candidates and their supporters, Mrs. Clinton suggested on Sunday that Mr. Obama’s campaign, in an effort to inject race into the contest, distorted remarks she had made about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Mr. Obama tartly dismissed Mrs. Clinton’s suggestion, adding that “the notion that somehow this is our doing is ludicrous..........”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/us/politics/14campaign.html?_r=1&exprod=myyahoo&oref=slogin
And:
"WASHINGTON — Republican voters have sharply altered their views of the party’s presidential candidates following the early contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, with Senator John McCain, once widely written off, now viewed more favorably than any of his major competitors, according to the latest nationwide New York Times/CBS News Poll....."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/us/politics/14poll.html?exprod=myyahoo