Facing days of attacks made by Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign, voters in Wisconsin today are poised to deliver a rebuke to the politics of negativity and distortion, in favor of Sen. Barack Obama’s politics of hope and change.
Gov. Jim Doyle said that Clinton has engaged in “"fear mongering," and for days had nothing on the air except negative ads.
Hillary is desperate, as Wisconsin can send her campaign reeling into Texas and Ohio with an apparently broken message.
So rather than speak about her vision and position, her campaign dumps everything on her opponent from sleazy innuendo to outright lies.
At the same time Clinton seeks to change the rules of the Democratic primary in the middle of the game that she is losing.
As America has learned from experience this last seven years, a campaign that functions with such disdain for the people and the democratic process, governs even worse.
I don’t think that the Clinton campaign realizes the sense of betrayal that she is engendering in voters, ranging from those with a casual interest in politics to political junkies.
I do believe that she will find out tonight, when the Wisconsin results come in, just how grave the feeling toward the politics of fear and distortion is among those who see the democratic process as a means of their deciding their government's policies, the result of the citizens' consent.
The people elected are mere instuments of the democratic will of the people.
But if Hillary is able to game out a victory this spring against the voters’ will in the Democratic primary, she can have it, because based on her performance in Wisconsin these last four days, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton, ever.
Gov. Jim Doyle said that Clinton has engaged in “"fear mongering," and for days had nothing on the air except negative ads.
Hillary is desperate, as Wisconsin can send her campaign reeling into Texas and Ohio with an apparently broken message.
So rather than speak about her vision and position, her campaign dumps everything on her opponent from sleazy innuendo to outright lies.
At the same time Clinton seeks to change the rules of the Democratic primary in the middle of the game that she is losing.
As America has learned from experience this last seven years, a campaign that functions with such disdain for the people and the democratic process, governs even worse.
I don’t think that the Clinton campaign realizes the sense of betrayal that she is engendering in voters, ranging from those with a casual interest in politics to political junkies.
I do believe that she will find out tonight, when the Wisconsin results come in, just how grave the feeling toward the politics of fear and distortion is among those who see the democratic process as a means of their deciding their government's policies, the result of the citizens' consent.
The people elected are mere instuments of the democratic will of the people.
But if Hillary is able to game out a victory this spring against the voters’ will in the Democratic primary, she can have it, because based on her performance in Wisconsin these last four days, I will not vote for Hillary Clinton, ever.
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