by Isaac Madengu Mangatu

Created on: May 06, 2008

The name Clinton is unarguably one of the biggest names that will ever be mentioned or talked about in our generation & age of politics. Bill Clinton has by all measures of politics been one of the greatest Presidents America has known in this era & Hillary a champion by his side.

Coming into this election, Hillary must have thought that her name alone would ride through anything and lead her back to the Whitehouse this time as the President. Her reputation & resume were an added bonus to the great Clinton name she carries but her campaign has been forced to rethink & be more calculative than they have ever been in all their political careers.

I was a supporter of the Senator from New York, I believed her campaign was based on what the American people wanted, called for and needed. I look at how her campaign started and where it is now, I am so very shocked and not amused. Political campaigns will do anything to live & Senator Clintons campaign has shown this is true & is actually playing this tune more than the Republicans can ever play it.

The greatest shame is that after all has been said & done the former first lady has to live with herself while the rest of the nations move on. Senator Clinton has been in Washington long enough to know that politics is a dirty game but a campaign does not have to go on the dirt road to attain victory. The high & mighty Senators campaign has really gone down a path that makes you ask questions although the media tries to cover the real truth.

On the campaign trail the Senator will say whatever she wants, kick & drag her opponents name in the mud at every opportunity but as her a question live on TV she wants him to answer for himself. Politicians have chased many from the ballot boxes and Senator Clinton's campaign will eventually chase many from her.

At this present time people will listen to anyone with short term solutions on the campaign trail even if it is a gimmick because faced with a choice between looking for water in the desert & drinking san, people always go for that which is closer because they will not know the difference. Great politicians stand on that which is right not that which sounds right & right now Senator Clinton's campaign all but sounds right.

Its time for Senator Clinton's campaign to go back to basics, she can either be for the truth or be for winning. Many people will vote for him or her who is true than one who is politically clever & right now Senator Clinton is being clever than honest. The biggest problem with having a sweet tongue is that it will always come back for that sweet taste again & again. If the Senators campaign wants respect & the people to look at her more favorably, it is time to say enough is enough, I will do that which is right with no gimmicks but only the right thing no matter how hard it looks or sounds.

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