Posted by
commonsenseunlimited on Friday, January 18, 2008 10:46:33 PM
January 18, 2008,
I clearly remember the Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter debate where Ford ended his campaign by looking at a map of Eastern Europe poised on an easel and firmly declaring that "There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe". I liked Gerald Ford, he served his country admirably. But that dramatic and damaging error did follow him for a long time, rearing it's ugly head almost like a mantra of sorts. Very often voters will perceive these so-called blunders or political mistakes as the candidate simply having a lapse of memory or something inconsequential that soon is forgotton. Sometimes, however, because of the persona of the candidate, there history of shrewdness and calculation and particularly if the apparent blunder was considered by the electorate to be deliberate and hurtful, it will not go away. That is exactly why I wonder why Hillary decided to go back more than forty years in history to make a statement that came about at a crucial time in Black American history where it appeared that she for some unknown and puzzling reason credited Lyndon Baines Johnson with empowering and igniting Dr. Martin Luther King's Dream as if he had not initiated his landmark visions of success and happiness for everyone previous to 1964 on his own. Specifically, I cannot exactly figure out why this subject was brought up at all, especially in 2008. I also think that this was definitely a classic blunder and as blunders go may not permanently exit voter's memories.
commonsenseunlimited