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Split personalities


Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may be virtual clones of each other when it comes to policy. Still, differences in the emergent identities and styles — political, personal, generational and cultural — of the Democrats' co-frontrunners could hardly be more pronounced. Help us define these differences by adding your pairs of contrasts to the ones we came up with below:

obama.jpg Obama


Oprah


Tiger Woods


Moveon.org


"Dreamgirls"


Caroline, Teddy


George Clooney


First multi-racial president


Neo-integrationism


Independents


Caucus states


will.i.am


Alicia Keys


Movement


"American Idol"


Social change


JFK, MLK


Poetry


First rodeo


Vision


United States

hillary.jpg Clinton


Streisand


Magic Johnson


NOW


"Hair"


Consolation Kennedys


Jack Nicholson


First black First Mate


Playing the race card


Latinos


Superdelegates


Slick Willie


Joni Mitchell


Machine


"Supernanny"


Social Security


Tracy Flick


Prose


Third term of Clinton co-presidency


Fine print


Megastates, home states

Comments (5)

Obama Naive
Clinton Realistic

Obama - Thinker
Clinton - Stinker

Obama - Head case
Clinton - Head job

Obama - Pro death
Clinton - Pro death

(if they would both stop supporting killing unborn humans, think of all the more people they could provide services for, tax and get to vote. "I saved your live in utero, now you owe me your vote, big time baby...")

People are comparing Omamma to JFK. Yes, he is young, intelligent, unique, an invigorating speaker, represents a perceived "new" vision and has one major controversial "thing" about him, but the comparison stops here. Jack would be his pal, no doubt, but the comparison stops way short. Jack was a real liberal in a time when one could hold his/her head high at the thought of being a liberal. Jack was bright not the deep throat thinker Obama is.

In the event of a recurrance of the Cuban missle crisis, Hillary would run to the public opinion polls, her drama coach and slick-Willie then assess the impact of her action as it would be seen from her fellow woman's lives, culture, poetry and and the fabric of their unfair opressed careers. But only the lives of those women fortunate enough to have survived the odds-stacked-against-you life in a feminists' womb tomb.

Obamer wouldn't be taken by any of those thoughtful, kind hearted, gentle persuasons. He would simply sit down, think it thru, then carefully think it thru, then mechanically think it thru one more time before thinking it thru again in his ambidexterous and then when it was just about over, he wouls mercifully come to a decision before telling anyone and everyone else what where and how they should or should not think, do act or feel. Thank your stars he has those big ears that he was teased so mercilessly about as a young man and on the campaign trail that made him stronger. Thank the moon and the sun and the sky he inhaled so we don't have to.

Man, oh man, I want him with me when I go into a dark, dank alley...

And to think, all Jack did was to consult with a priveledged few brainiacs and he went into "git-er-done" mode. Man did he miss the (Soviet) boat to mint a phrase...

No sir/madam/transgenderal/non-gender specific person - thing... Omamma is better compared to the peanut eating nu-clear scientist we elected after the Nixon debacle.

Lotsa folk not happy campers with the inability of the GOP to not tax and not spend wanted a change, a progressive, high thinker with high ideals and little to show for it. Don't think this comparison works? Just read his first book and see how his power, his charisma, his powerful magic ears (the better to hear your pain, my dear) worked wonders in transforming a hope into hopelessness, small pride into slightly less small pride and on and of the nit and the grit of reality in a Chicago project

Clearly, his vast experience as a poor-little multi-racial child of wealth and no wealth in H'awaii, Idaho and Indonesia prepared him for dealing with the problems of the projects, infinity and beyond...

President Jimmy
President Barack

Yeah, it's got that presidential ring to it...

Obama - Novelty
Clinton - Saul Alinsky

Tough choice, either this life-long Democrat gets to help Bill slide into a "back door" presidency, or vote for a fellow with all the right sounds coming out of his mouth, knowing he'll probably never deliver on 5% of it, given that most of America won't let Obamma lose the war on terror single handedly. Ditto for Hillary.

Decisions...decisions...

Guess I'll have to vote McCain when the time comes.

Politicians on both side of the aisle range from unimpressive to downright dangerous. Who to vote for? Decisions decisions indeed!

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