The "Clintons"

In the press and on the news you will hear about the uncharted waters of this election year. The Democratic Party has some symbolically new faces in the race for president. The first woman, the first black person with a real chance at winning.

The women's vote is essential, so they say, because these two firsts are actually rivals for their party's nomination. Single women now outnumber married women. A fact which, while not celebrated, is nevertheless treated like a mile stone towards progress. This is another fact I think ironic because it originates from the very people who profess to be women's rights advocates, but who subconsciously presume that all married women are intellectual slaves to their husbands and will therefore vote how they are told.

From this camp of women's rights experts and other political analysts the talk centers around Hillary Clinton's, excuse me, Hillary Rodham Clinton's presentation of herself in relation to President William Jefferson Clinton, I mean her husband Bill.

First of all, I have to say that women voting for a woman just because of gender is a continuation of the same kind of divisive politics this country has succumbed to and will ultimately lead to what we see in parliamentary nations around the world where coalition governments are organized and dissolved with the changing of the winds. The same goes for ethnicity and race and even political party.

Spectators are concerned because they are not sure how women will respond to Hillary placing her husband on an equal plain with herself in her campaign. They say, "Why shouldn't Bill help out, all the other candidates wives are campaigning for them?" What should give all of the women's rights people pause is that Bill is not just Hillary's husband, he is a President of the United States of America. He has persuasive power like you wouldn't believe. Would any other woman in this country have a shot at the White House if her husband had been a nobody beforehand?

The fact that Hillary Clinton would be polling below the margin of error without her husband having been President should give us all pause. And consider what agenda the Clintons really have. The Obama campaign has hit the nail right on the head, and traditional Clinton supporters are not going to like it, because guess what, they are really Bill Clinton supporters, not Hillary supporters. Obama needs to call 'em like he sees 'em and take on Bill. It is the only way he is going to overcome Hillary as soon as Super Tuesday is over and the Republicans start beating down the war path in her direction. The Clintons won't be able to sustain attacks from both sides like that.