I was simply critiquing the two interviews.  The question was asked of Sen Clinton; instead of answering the question, she turned it around and used it as an opportunity to attack her opponent.

Every politician is shady, Doug.  You constantly show us your deep wisdom, one would think that you would have learned that already.

You’re pretty funny though, you figure that because someone doesn’t support your candidate, they must be wholeheartedly for the other candidate.  If they don’t support your candidate, they must be sexist and hate older people too.

You’re a pretty funny guy, all in all...but i think you’ve been in that basement too long.  You do have a radon detector down there, don’t you?

She says that Obama’s campaign has ‘told people’ to ask about her finances, even though we’ve just heard from Obama, and we know how his own comments came about. The media asked HIM, because Hillary’s 5 million dollar loan to her own campaign has been common knowledge for at least a week. (At least that’s when I first read about it, and it wasn’t from Obama’s campaign…it was from the Independent media.)

THEN, she spends the rest of her time (most of it actually) doing more dirty tricks, as well as the defensive stuff to throw everybody off. She alternates between how ‘public’ and ‘transparent’ she and Slick Willy have always been, and how everything about her has been examined up one side and down the other, (a hazard when one elects to be in the political racket) to the dirty jab innuendos on Barack; consistently citing what she wants to have “appear” as some secret or shady dealings/relationships that Obama has. The intent is obvious of course; without any REAL details, she throws out innuendo that there’s something ‘shady’ going on with HIM, in an obvious display of “Well, look at HIM”, and here’s some fake ‘dirt’ to get things buzzing.  Well, we HAVE, (looked at him) and there’s nothing ‘unexplained’ in his own records, whether one accepts the explanation or not.

So she starts out BLAMING the Obama campaign, for ‘telling people’ to ask these very standard questions. And, it IS standard political protocol. Barack is correct on that; it’s age old political ethics procedures.  Hell, they want all of OUR information!!

It’s not intended to be a ‘sinister’ prying, since American’s don’t particularly CARE if their political leaders are independently wealthy. We have had, and STILL have, Presidents and other long term political leaders that WERE/ARE independently wealthy. That’s like a few hundred years old. And, since one doesn’t ‘get rich’ on a President’s income, and the annual salary isn’t all that comparatively large, it would mean that (theoretically at least) the individual isn’t IN IT for ‘the money” or the POWER, but rather because they want to DO SOME GOOD in terms of the leadership and management of our national affairs. I mean, that WAS the original idea behind the job of the President. So in a capitalist society, nobody much cares if the president has a lot of his/her own money, or even how they spend it. They just wanna know that these politicos aren’t CORRUPT, and that they aren’t becoming wealthy by stealing from US! American’s are naturally even MORE ‘tuned in’ to that now, after these last several years of seeing ourselves robbed/raped/pillaged by the current batch of gangster robber-barons, that make all previous robber-barons look like petty thieves!!

Hillary’s response is to behave as if people are ‘picking on her’ while she shows her paranoia by blaming the opponent. We see from every single interview that Hillary has these days, and even every single speech she gives, that this election is all about HER WINNING. It’s not about what’s best for the country, or what’s best for us. It’s about HER WINNING!! By hook, or crook, or whatever low down dirty tricks she can use. The more desperate she becomes, the sleazier she gets.

She’s totally oblivious to the fact that she is insulting the American people, with comments like, “Obama’s campaign ‘TOLD people’ to ask about her finances. And, that IS an insult, because we don’t need to be ‘told’ what to do, anymore than she or any other politician can ‘dictate’ or otherwise decide what issues are of concern to US. When she makes comments like that, blaming the opponent for doing it, she only reveals that it’s the kind of thing that SHE would do!! And, she STILL doesn’t ‘get’ that ‘we the people’ can see through that. 

Bottom line, it’s this very arrogance and disrespect for the popular opinion, that will be the reason for her loss. That and the fact that we have a BETTER choice!!