Hillary VS. Barack

Presidential nominees are stepping up and throwing their hats into the upcoming election in 2008, and America is getting itself set to elect a new leader - and who wouldn't want that ? Everybody (for now) is really only looking at two - Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

The Democrats have a definite advantage in both Mrs.Clinton and Mr.Obama, in that they have one major factor in their favour - and if you say they really have two, race and women, then you aren't looking hard enough - it's curiosity.
This nature of curiosity has people now wondering if a change in tradition is something that could carry the nation somewhere different and new. And though John Edwards looks to be the favour in the running for the Democrats, lets face it - compared to the star power of both Hillary and Barack, Edwards might as well run around wearing clown makeup, only dressed in the American flag (Senator McCain might as well join him too at that point). The nation is an American Idol junkie; an Apprentice-snorting, Paris Hilton/Britney Spears/Brangelina-watching group of people, who love to Dance With the Stars, and to call in to cast their votes for everything that they can watch on TV. Everything in the American public is based on star power, something which both Clinton and Obama have in spades.

Where does this leave John Edwards ? (lets include John McCain, shall we ?)
It leaves them virtually invisible. Until both Edwards and McCain really step up their game, then seeing them as much as we are seeing Mrs.Clinton and Mr.Obama, is like thinking that Lindsay Lohan really matters in the grand scheme of the planet. But these are preliminary guesses and estimates that will be a year old by the time re-election comes along, and if you study politics, then you know that the game is chess. The public should not think that Edwards and McCain are out of the race yet, remember that experience does count. Barak Obama's inexperience with office holds him at a large disadvantage, as does Hillary Clinton - though maybe not as large as Obama's; she is still a relative new comer to the scene and gets her wisdom as the First Lady. Edwards and McCain have been at this game for a long time, holding posts at different parts of the government, and to count them out entirely at this stage would be definitely underestimating them.

But for now the whole world is admiring what potentially could be the first lady President, and/or the first minority Commander in Chief. Curiosity might push the people to once again see what might become of electing one of the two, and might get others to realize that taking a risk before had paid off in big ways. It seems like the Presidents who had the least amount of experience holding a political office, or didn't even desire to be a politician, are the ones who resonate the most in the minds of the people. After all, who could forget Jack Kennedy and Ronald Reagan ?
...but then again, "Double-ya" was exactly a veteran either....



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