Obama=Bill Clinton? HRC=Al Gore?

[draft_mario_cuomo]

I was searching for an Obama quote in light of a post in the Rahm thread and came across this. It certainly is food for thought.

==If Obama is the Clintonian figure in the race, Hillary Clinton may be Al Gore, more disciplined policy wonk than natural politician. Like Gore, Hillary Clinton can be more adroit intellectually than politically; both face the challenge, fair or not, of convincing voters of their "authenticity."==

=="Today, our leaders in Washington seem incapable of working together in a practical, common sense way," lamented one politician. The other called for "a new kind of leadership . . . not mired in the politics of the past, not limited by old ideologies." Can you tell the difference? The first is Obama, the second Clinton, but either could have been channeling the other.==

==In fact, Obama fits himself explicitly into the Clinton mold. "In his platform -- if not always in his day-to-day politics -- Clinton's Third Way went beyond splitting the difference," he writes. "It tapped into the pragmatic, nonideological attitude of the majority of Americans."

To Clinton critics drawn to Obama, equating them seems too facile: Obama's centrist tropism is born of a desire to accommodate and transcend differences, they argue, while Clinton's was an artifact of ruthless calculation in which he submerged differences for political advantage.==

Read the rest at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/30/AR2007013001653.html

[William769]

1. The last line in that article should raise some blood pressures around here.

IMHO, I don't see Obama as Bill Clinton, and I don't see Hillary as Al Gore.

[kimmerspixelated]

2. Agreed!

And furthermore, I think a severe insult has been hurled towards Dear Albert!

[ClassWarfare2008]

3. The only Al Gore in this race will be Al Gore

And comparing Hillary to him makes me sick :puke:

[surfermaw]

4. Once again, it is going to be Gore & Edwards

Watch my fingers.