The Obama candidacy has created a dilemma for people of African descent in the US who except on rare ocassions, have gone with candidate of the Democratic Party. Obama's candidacy has already caught many of the old guard leadership off guard and on the wrong side of the aspirations their constituencies. It has created an even greater dilemma for Bill and Hillary Clinton who had assumed that Hillary Clinton would get the Democratic Party nomination and then the presidency. The assumption was that the Republican Party would still be bogged down in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the Democrats would be a shoo- in; but then came the sub prime crises, the weakness of the dollar, and the rise of China, India, Russia, Venezuela and Brazil as major players on the world stage with their own spheres of influence.
The Clintons have made it clear that they are running as a pair and Hillary Clinton has all but declared that the accomplishments of her husband are as much hers as his. Lee Atwater the engineer of Reagan's victory was quoted as saying, "We are not republicans,we are conservatives, the Republican Party was the vehicle we used to come to power." This was not lost on "Slick Willie Clinton" who through the Democratic Leadership Council - made up of mostly southern governors - turned the Democratic Party into a modern Dixiecrat Party. The Progressive Policy Institute was the ideological and philosophical base of the new Democratic Party.
After remaking the Democratic Party into a center-right party, dismantling and marginalizing the party apparatus, the Clintons set out to build what they hope would be their dynasty. There was one problem: conservatives were incensed that not only had Clinton and Co. stolen their agenda, but had passed it off as their own. What Hillary Clinton called a right-wing conspiracy was actually a fight between the Republicans who saw themselves as the real conservatives and the conservatives in the Democratic party led by Bill Clinton and Al From. That is why many analysts around the world say that a move from George Bush to Hillary Clinton would be "seamless."
The Clintons have made it clear that they are running as a pair and Hillary Clinton has all but declared that the accomplishments of her husband are as much hers as his. Lee Atwater the engineer of Reagan's victory was quoted as saying, "We are not republicans,we are conservatives, the Republican Party was the vehicle we used to come to power." This was not lost on "Slick Willie Clinton" who through the Democratic Leadership Council - made up of mostly southern governors - turned the Democratic Party into a modern Dixiecrat Party. The Progressive Policy Institute was the ideological and philosophical base of the new Democratic Party.
After remaking the Democratic Party into a center-right party, dismantling and marginalizing the party apparatus, the Clintons set out to build what they hope would be their dynasty. There was one problem: conservatives were incensed that not only had Clinton and Co. stolen their agenda, but had passed it off as their own. What Hillary Clinton called a right-wing conspiracy was actually a fight between the Republicans who saw themselves as the real conservatives and the conservatives in the Democratic party led by Bill Clinton and Al From. That is why many analysts around the world say that a move from George Bush to Hillary Clinton would be "seamless."
