by Jobie Weetaluktuk

Created on: February 06, 2008   Last Updated: July 02, 2008

The winner of Super Tuesday are clearly the national TV outlets. They are the ones getting the Presidential campaign windfall. There are also the radio and local media that have been able to cash in. There are also those poster and placard makers that have already made their years projections. The website www.opensecrets.org estimates that the eventual nominees will have had to raise and spend 500 million apiece. Much of the that money will go into advertising, transport charters, personnel, and road expenses.

The Chatter class, including foreign writers like yours truly are also incidental capitalizers. Most of what we talk or write about is the horse race. Who has the lead. Who stumbled. Who is gaining at which turn. Who is falling behind. Who is the dark horse. Who is the odds on favorite. Who to win. Who to place. How long can they sustain this pace? Then there is who are these guys.

Senator Hilary R. Clinton
This is what I have learned about the candidate from the media coverage. Hilary R. Clinton is a smart and powerful woman. She is too manly for some. She is campaigning on the coattails of her husband, former President Clinton. She is cold and mental. She was the vice vice president in charge of health care policy in the Clinton years. She will be the choice of the cerebral and those who can stand to hear her shouting pitch.

Senator Barack Obama
I have read that Obama is not black enough. Obama has also had to state that he is a Christians who goes to the same church over the past twenty years or so, because some has whispered he may be a Muslim. That is not true, but so much for separation of Church and State. He is inspiring orator and can move the hearts of the crowd. He has been able to present himself as race neutral candidate. His policy substance has often come up as a question.

Senator John McCain.
He is too old, too liberal. He is a certifiable war veteran. His campaign was over in the summer of 2007 but he didn't get it. Now he has surged ahead because when he should already have gone home. He is so liberal that the conservative won't vote for him. On policy he would probably pull the American troops out of Iraq. He likes to consider himself as the best possible Commander-in-Chief.

Mitt Romney. He is very rich, who made his own money. He is may to be liberal for the Republicans. He is the wrong kind of Christian (mormon), again so much for separation of Church and State. He is not personable enough. I do not know his policies, but I read a report

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