From Hank:

Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 11:31 AM
To: 'oped@washpost.com'
Subject: To The Editor

“Clinton v. Obama: A No Brainer”

All the media hyoe about the battle between Hillary Clinton and barrack Obama is just that; hyoe. In the simplest of terms, Senator Obama is eminently electable and beats any Republican challenger hands down. Senator Clinton has a forty-seven percent dislike factor among American voters, even before she faces an actual Republican candidate! She is the hope and prayer of the Republican Party, the one Democrat the want to run against.

But there are deeper and more meaningful issues and reasons that Obama should be the nominee of the Democratic Party and Clinton should not. Even the Republicans now admit that the country needs change. Certainly Obama is the candidate of change, and Clinton is the candidate of the same old Washington DC politics of the nineties. Senator Obama opposed the Iraq war from the beginning and Senator Clinton voted for it. She also makes conflicting statements about how and when she would end the war, and how many troops she would bring home, while Obama’s position is much more finite. Obama’s health care plan came out well ahead of Clinton’s, and has been praised as being “better” and “more comprehensive than Clinton’s.

Obama is a uniter while Clinton is abrasive and, like George W. Bush, a “divider.” Hillary’s tearful scene in New Hampshire should scare the daylights out of anyone seriously thinking of voting for her in the upcoming primaries! Just picture a President Clinton meeting with the leaders of Syria and Iran and breaking down into tears because her “feelings got hurt.” The junior Senator can not have it both ways; either she is compassionate and hard-edged, or she is soft and emotional. Senator Obama is “what you see and hear is what you get.” He is the real deal. Listening to his speeches after Iowa and New Hampshire I felt as if a new force had been born into American politics. Hearing Hillary Clinton say “after listening to you, I found my voice” was disingenuous to the nth degree. Bill Clinon’s angry diatribe about Obama’s “fairy tale” did not do his wife any good either.

Let’s get real about this election. For the Democrat’s to win back the White House they need a candidate who is bulletproof. That candidate is barrack Obama.