Clinton vs. Obama

To the editor:
    There has been so much talk about all the dirty tricks in South |Carolina, but nobody’s discussing the Clinton camp’s underhanded and unjust attacks on Barack Obama.     Hillary has personally injected fear mongering into her campaign, suggesting that Obama intends on privatizing Social Security, eliminating minimum wage, undercutting health benefits and allowing the drug companies to make billions of dollars off the vulnerable and unsuspecting public. (Actually, it’s Hillary who is supported by the drug and health care industries) All this venom in response to a comment that Obama made in a chat with the editorial staff of a Nevada newspaper.
    His reference to Reagan is being used in Clinton’s attempt to destroy him. He was not speaking about Reagan the president but Reagan the candidate. Reagan had not created the conditions that had swept him into office. He had adeptly ridden this phenomenal wave, that of the public’s need to regain its sense of well being, its need to believe in itself again.
    Reagan promised a renewed national pride with peace and prosperity. His positive campaign turned an extremely despondent public around. Obama is attempting to do the same, to positively reinvigorate America’s perception of itself and its place in the world and to regain hope for the future.
Eliot J. Chandler
Presque Isle