2008 Woodie Awards
Honesty key to Democratic nomination
Erich Pilcher
Issue date: 4/17/08 Section: Web Exclusive
The 2008 Democratic Presidential Nominee race is becoming more of a soap opera and less of a race to decide who is capable to lead our nation.
The Kentucky Derby of politics has become a two horse race between Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. The race is down to the wire and coming down to one word… honesty.
Clinton's platform has been that she is prepared to answer a phone call to help serve the nation. She states that her relationship with overseas leaders, her fight against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other activities she did while first lady make her the best person for the job. But, her record reveals something else.
Clinton stated that while on a trip to Bosnia in 1996 she was shot at by snipers on the runway. Video footage of her arriving on the runway tells a different story. She is shown being well received and giving a speech; there is also no documentation of gunfire upon her arrival.
Recently Clinton was caught in another tall tale. While campaigning in Ohio, Clinton told the tale of a woman, who was having pregnancy complications, was denied treatment because she did not have $100, the cost of the treatment. The result of this, according to Clinton, was that the woman and the unborn child died. The story is shocking and heartbreaking but there is one problem - it wasn't true.
The fact is The O'Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio, which according to ABC news was never named in the story, demanded Clinton stop telling the story because it was completely false.
Obama is in no way innocent. Obama is accused by Clinton of representing a slum lord named Tony Rezo. Obama has also had questionable support from the New Black Panther Party and Louis Farrakhan and a minister who made disparaging comments regarding America.
Obama, however, is not guilty of lying about his record. He is, according to senate logs, the only senator to vote against the Iraq invasion. He also has been forthcoming in his defense of NAFTA and his withdrawal of support of NAFTA, something Clinton helped start.
The final fact is that everyone makes mistakes and everyone has skeletons in the closet. The deciding factor of this election should be not who is ready to lead but who is ready to lead honestly.
The Kentucky Derby of politics has become a two horse race between Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. The race is down to the wire and coming down to one word… honesty.
Clinton's platform has been that she is prepared to answer a phone call to help serve the nation. She states that her relationship with overseas leaders, her fight against the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and other activities she did while first lady make her the best person for the job. But, her record reveals something else.
Clinton stated that while on a trip to Bosnia in 1996 she was shot at by snipers on the runway. Video footage of her arriving on the runway tells a different story. She is shown being well received and giving a speech; there is also no documentation of gunfire upon her arrival.
Recently Clinton was caught in another tall tale. While campaigning in Ohio, Clinton told the tale of a woman, who was having pregnancy complications, was denied treatment because she did not have $100, the cost of the treatment. The result of this, according to Clinton, was that the woman and the unborn child died. The story is shocking and heartbreaking but there is one problem - it wasn't true.
The fact is The O'Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio, which according to ABC news was never named in the story, demanded Clinton stop telling the story because it was completely false.
Obama is in no way innocent. Obama is accused by Clinton of representing a slum lord named Tony Rezo. Obama has also had questionable support from the New Black Panther Party and Louis Farrakhan and a minister who made disparaging comments regarding America.
Obama, however, is not guilty of lying about his record. He is, according to senate logs, the only senator to vote against the Iraq invasion. He also has been forthcoming in his defense of NAFTA and his withdrawal of support of NAFTA, something Clinton helped start.
The final fact is that everyone makes mistakes and everyone has skeletons in the closet. The deciding factor of this election should be not who is ready to lead but who is ready to lead honestly.
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