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I don't mean that he's necessarily wrong to endorse Obama. Teddy is wrong that this election holds any chance for any kind of fresh new start for the Democratic Party or the country.
It appears inevitable that our candidate will be either Clinton or Obama. While I think that they would each be decent presidents, neither of them stands for anything substantively new or different other than the accident of their sex and the color of their skin.
A Barack Obama presidency would be record-breaking for one reason only - he would be the first African American elected to the U.S. presidency. That's not a bad thing, but beyond the symbolism inherent in something that should have taken place many years earlier, I don't see anything all that new or different in what Obama is saying. His general message is that we should all move toward the middle and get along. That's pretty much what Bill Clnton did.
Which leads me to the other candidate. If Hillary Clinton is elected president, it will be record-breaking for one reason only - she would be the first woman elected to the U.S. presidency. Again, beyond the symbolism in an event that should have happened years ago, there's unlikely to be anything new or different in a Hillary Clinton presidency that we haven't seen before.
It's pathetic that it has come to this. Wake up, my fellow Americans! While any Democrat would be better than the thieves and murderers who currently have their claws in our nation, why are we as a nation so timid, so reluctant to embrace true change?
All the candidates pushing any kind of real reform have been marginalized, long before the primary season is even well underway. Apparently we live in a country where even the horrors of the past seven years aren't enough to wake us from our slumber.
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