Bill Clinton - “If a politician doesn’t wanna get beat up, he shouldn’t run for office,”
March 27, 2008
This is of course, the mentality which has led me to view Hillary and Bill Clinton as potentially more disastrous than John McCain (who I can’t vote for until he can tell the difference between Sunnis and Shiites). While Obama wants the political process to be honest, open, and positive, Bill Clinton wants politics to be a fight to see who can give out the most punishment. In sports terms, if Obama is Michael Jordan, the Clintons are the ‘89 Detroit Pistons. One is graceful, hardworking, determined, and takes the game to whole new level, bringing in millions of newcomers. The other sees how much they can bend the rules, and rough up their opponent. One plays the game with the idea that the best man (or woman) should win, the other just wants to win at all costs.
This, in my mind, is one of the prime differences between the Clinton and the Obama campaign:
One is saying: “This is how it is and if you don’t like it, tough. Don’t bother trying to change it, just learn to get good at it.”
The other: “This system is bad and it isn’t working. We need a new system, one that will actually work.”
It’s like getting a job in corporate America and trying to learn the best way to suck up to your boss rather than the best way to help the company.