Obama vs. Clinton
With the race for a Democrat presidential nominee narrowing, as well as the Indiana and North Carolina primaries today, I thought it would be a good idea to recap the differences between Obama and Clinton, especially when they appear to be very similar on paper. But I'm not going to do that because Ran Prieur did just that on his blog yesterday.
I think he really gets it right, so I'm just going to re-post some of what he wrote. I would just link to his post, but he doesn't leave everything online permanently and there is no direct link. Scroll down to his May 5 entry for the full text and great links to related articles. I've re-posted the meat of it here:
<snip - from Ran's blog>
Clinton is a relentless fighter, but she's not good at working with people, she's not good at adapting, her campaign has shown she's not a good manager, and she's not even good at winning her fights. Her Senate career has been balancing symbolic gestures on social issues with full-on neoconservatism on foreign policy. We are entering a depression, and when the strikes and riots start, Clinton's first instinct will not be to work with strikers and rioters, but fight them (us). She is owned by lobbyists and will take her actions from the interests of lobbyists and take her words from pollsters and focus groups. And worst of all, while she is doing all this, everyone will think of her as a pushy liberal, and we'll get a huge right wing backlash in 2012, just like we got in 2000 after the first Clinton presidency.
Barack Obama is a good listener, an excellent manager, and has done more in two years in the Senate than Clinton has done in six. He has spoken again and again about bottom-up change and transparency, and he is largely owned by the 1.5 million individual donors who have financed his campaign. When the depression hits, Obama is far more likely than Clinton to work with the uppity rabble. He is setting himself up as a tool that we can use to change the system (and we have to, for his presidency to be effective). On foreign policy, he is less likely to attack Iran, and more likely to make peace with the rest of the world in an age where continuing to fight would be catastrophic.
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I think he really gets it right, so I'm just going to re-post some of what he wrote. I would just link to his post, but he doesn't leave everything online permanently and there is no direct link. Scroll down to his May 5 entry for the full text and great links to related articles. I've re-posted the meat of it here:
<snip - from Ran's blog>
Clinton is a relentless fighter, but she's not good at working with people, she's not good at adapting, her campaign has shown she's not a good manager, and she's not even good at winning her fights. Her Senate career has been balancing symbolic gestures on social issues with full-on neoconservatism on foreign policy. We are entering a depression, and when the strikes and riots start, Clinton's first instinct will not be to work with strikers and rioters, but fight them (us). She is owned by lobbyists and will take her actions from the interests of lobbyists and take her words from pollsters and focus groups. And worst of all, while she is doing all this, everyone will think of her as a pushy liberal, and we'll get a huge right wing backlash in 2012, just like we got in 2000 after the first Clinton presidency.
Barack Obama is a good listener, an excellent manager, and has done more in two years in the Senate than Clinton has done in six. He has spoken again and again about bottom-up change and transparency, and he is largely owned by the 1.5 million individual donors who have financed his campaign. When the depression hits, Obama is far more likely than Clinton to work with the uppity rabble. He is setting himself up as a tool that we can use to change the system (and we have to, for his presidency to be effective). On foreign policy, he is less likely to attack Iran, and more likely to make peace with the rest of the world in an age where continuing to fight would be catastrophic.
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Labels: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, politics, ran prieur
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