COLUMN: 10-31-2007

Based on last night's debate, it's really hard to understand why Hillary Clinton is the front-runner in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, unless you stoop to the lowest common denominator. Senator Clinton claims to be the candidate of change, but doesn't actually propose any policies that are significantly different than the past few years. She also ignores answering every real policy question by twisting the answer into a criticism for President Bush and the Republican Party. She obviously realizes that attacking someone else's policies is not the same thing as having a policy position of your own but is content is play politics on every issue. Finally, she claims to be the candidate of experience, but her experience as First Lady of both America and Arkansas shouldn't count as true executive experience and so her only actual career experience is that of a lawyer for a very short period followed much later by 8 years in the US Senate. The lowest common denominator here is that she is the most experienced Washington insider politician, which explains why she is the front runner with party insiders and media across the country. That is exactly the wrong kind of person to run America at this critical point after having other insiders drive our country towards an extremely wrongheaded foreign policy and towards becoming a third world country in terms of our economy.