An Outstandingly Talented Candidate… that should have run against McCain

The more that I see Obama being outperformed by McCain, the more that I as struggle to understand why Democrats did not send Hillary to the final round on the presidential race.

Her marvelous speech on Tuesday night was even greater because of her grace, her positive attitude and the energized crowd that gave her a long standing ovation when she first walked in. Even Bill appeared tearful at times. As I watched Hillary performed in such unique way – to a crowd that maybe still hoped that things change before anything was official – it came to my head that Democrats may feel that they made a huge mistake sending Obama to face the tough Republicans on the main election.

Obama is nowhere near to take a huge lead over McCain, who at every point should be losing by a lot, considering that he is clueless about the economy, that he still wants to be in Iraq and the his monochromatic party has failed to embrace a multicultural country.

Obama has failed to bring that change rhetoric to a consistent action. While Hillary was tough and heroic Obama is timid and lacks that spirit to make a huge majority believe that despite his inexperience he will be a great leader.

McCain on the other hand is not the best choice for Americans. He wants to drill so more oil profits will go to his pals, but with no actual consequence to the price on the pumps. He is so jealous of Obama that even went to the extreme of placing him with Paris and Britney on the same add.

Knowing that America should not risk four more years with a Republican on the White House we can only hope that Obama wins an undeserved presidency.

Bill Clinton gave an outstanding speech on Wednesday after a four minutes or so ovation from an exited crowd. He did after Hillary a day before, what they should have so no one can tell that because of them the party lost on the general election.

Bill after all had one of the greatest eight years on the White House, opaque at times with the Monica scandal, but remembered with nostalgia after eight years of a Bush presidency that has bought more doubts than great memories.

The big night was on Thursday, although the big stadium presentation could mean a lot of problems for Obama, Democrats filled the stadium nevertheless. His speech was done to weight some confidence in the American audience. Compare to both Clinton´s speeches this particular one told me nothing new about a better future, but is generally acclaim as a great speech, where he said what was needed.

My bitter sweet feeling that Obama is the lesser of evil is more deep now that we have to tolerate a movie star for the next eight years. His character was not strong enough to beat Hillary in the primary, now it seems that he is not strong enough to beat McCain.

Now that Sarah Palin – an unknown governor from Alaska – is in the race as McCain´s choice for veep, Obama has to feel that leaving Hillary off the ticket was a dumb idea.

We may see that Joe Biden with all his experience overshadows Sarah on their debates, but woman that felt that Obama let them down may chose to support Sarah in the end. Remember that Hillary appealed to a lot of woman on the fact of just that, that woman are capable of getting to the White House, that is exactly what Palin is doing, trying to be a woman on the White House.

This can pose several problems for both campaigns, Obama risks losing the vote of thousand of Hillary supporters, most of the woman that could flunk to Sarah, also McCain can no longer attack Obama for his inexperience, as you know Sarah just got into the spotlight as she was nominated to be the Vice presidential choice two days ago.

But thinking that Palin could take most of Hillary´s votes just because of gender is not right either, what we are seeing needs to be analyze at more depth, you can take it anyway you want it, but Republicans placed a woman as Vice president candidate and that is a lot of accomplishment for a remarkable election, the US surprises the world every time that things looks bad.

If Hillary would have won the Democratic primary things will be different now. But things are the way they are and are far too complicated to understand why.

Obama does not seem like the great leader that the US needs in order to embrace the future. America was the hope and destiny of millions of entrepreneurs that saw it as the only place where they can achieve what no other place in the world could offer them. In a globalized world this is not longer the case.

Universities can bring and educate the brightest people in the world, give them the tools to be entrepreneurs, give them information, showing them a new culture. But only the government can chose to keep most of those bright students in the country. Allow them to have a job, maybe a working visa or to accept them as new citizens.

America needs a strong leader that knows that this is the future. That embraces green technologies and pushes for environmental friendly legislation. I have not heard either candidate committed neither to this nor to a hard future for this side of the planet.

We all saw the miracle of the Chinese growth, the ultra-modern airports, the slim stadium, the billions invested in infrastructure, their proud people and of all the gold medals during this past Olympics.

Obama does not seem like the right choice; Americans need someone like JFK to guide the country to the moon, someone like Reagan to achieve policy based on true beliefs. Clinton was a clear example of economic policy leaning to growth and equality.

So in this tumultuous times – just at the begging of this new millennium – when the US needs a strong leader with a clear vision of the future, voters have delivered McCain and Obama. Both candidates lack the sense of how the future will unfold all the imbalances of the current situation.

It is a shame that Obama has to be the next president, but true democracy brings to power whoever gets the most votes. Hilary knows this and pressed on a remarkable speech for everyone around her to vote for a better future. I think she knows that Obama is not the right one to change things, but McCain should not be allowed to win.

“No way, no how, no McCain”, those were Hillary´s words on her Tuesday speech. This implies that McCain must not win, even if you have to elect Obama to impede that.
We hope for the best, but it has to be set, I don’t think that Barak Obama was the right choice.