What You Can Learn From A Primary

If you can't run a proper presidential campaign, does that not speak to your ability to run a proper administration? Both Senator's Clinton and McCain have had turnover in their campaigns at the very top. Both have run out of money. In John McCain's case, his "rise from the dead" campaign of the end of '07 with a victory in New Hampshire primary left him on top of the Republican race but without money. This has led to him whoring himself to the very people that he has stated he wants out of Washington. Namely, lobbyist.



Hillary Clinton on the other hand had a war chest of money but by late January, she had to loan her campaign $5 million,(she would make more loans later to keep her campaign afloat). They seem to have planned, apparently, for a 2 month campaign. Past February's "Super Tuesday", they seem to have no strategy.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama was raising record amounts of money through tens of thousands of new voters. Voters that were donating $5 and $20 to the sum of some $33 million in January. He has raised more than a quarter Billion dollars to date. Obama is not without dirty hands in the fundraising department. He did accept money from PAC's, (political action committee's) and lobbyist in running for the state legislature in Illinois and for his senate race in 2004. But he has appeared to run a cleaner campaign than his closest and fading rival, Hillary Clinton, who has accepted more money from lobbyist and PAC's than anyone else in the campaign.

Its not just money, where the "experienced" candidates have been out maneuvered by the "upstart". He seem to master the caucus system of voting, winning all 7 caucus states. Hillary explanation for her lack of a showing in caucus states rang hollow saying, ""You have a limited period of time on one day to have your voices heard.' "That is troubling to me. You know in a situation of a caucus, people who work during that time -- they're disenfranchised. People who can't be in the state or who are in the military, like the son of the woman who was here who is serving in the Air Force, they cannot be present." "You have a limited period of time on one day to have your voices heard," Clinton, D-N.Y., said. "That is troubling to me. You know in a situation of a caucus, people who work during that time -- they're disenfranchised. People who can't be in the state or who are in the military, like the son of the woman who was here who is serving in the Air Force, they cannot be present." She would go on to win only 6 out of 16 primaries following February's "Super Tuesday" to date.

My point is that with the coming and going of her brain trust in the campaign, the loaning of money to keep her campaign running, the pain-in-the-ass husband who can't stop putting his foot in his mouth. McCain belching out registered lobbyist from his campaign and unable to raise money on his own. A man running on national defense that doesn't even know how many troops are in Iraq...If your campaign is run like this what can we expect of their possible administration's?