Politics can be very unpredictable and is a devious business for all involved. Last year, no one barely knew Senator Barack Obama, now he is on his way to being the Democratic nominee for president. I know this is a hard pill to swallow for Senator Hillary Clinton and even more so for former President Bill Clinton. There were suppose to be so many firsts for this family, like being the first female president, the first husband of a president, and for Chelsea Clinton the first child to have two parents to become president mother and father. Now, it is bleek that any of this will ever happen, because all in the name of politics a tricky and devious business.
Obama's campaign raised $58 million during the first half of 2007,
topping all other candidates and exceeding previous records for the
first six months of any year before an election year.[80]
Small donors, those contributing in increments of less than $200,
accounted for $16.4 million of Obama's record-breaking total, more than
any other Democratic candidate.[81]
In the first month of 2008, his campaign brought in $36.8 million, the
most ever raised in one month by a presidential candidate in the
Democratic primaries.[82]
With two months remaining before the first electoral contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, and national opinion polls showing him trailing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama began directly charging his top rival with failing to clearly state her political positions.[83]The Washington Post that as the Democratic nominee he would draw more support than Clinton from independent and Republican voters in the general election.[84] Campaigning in Iowa, he told
Among the first four DNC-sanctioned state contests, Obama won more delegates than Clinton in Iowa, Nevada and South Carolina while winning an equal number in New Hampshire. On Super Tuesday, he emerged with 20 more delegates than Clinton.[85]
He broke fundraising records in the first two months of 2008, raising
over $90 million for his primary campaign while Clinton raised $45
million in the same period.[86] After Super Tuesday, Obama won the eleven remaining February primaries and caucuses.[87] Obama and Clinton split delegates and states nearly equally in Vermont, Texas, Ohio, and Rhode Island.[88]
In March 2008, a controversy broke out concerning Obama's 23-year relationship to his former pastor Jeremiah Wright.[89] After ABC News broadcast racially and politically charged clips from sermons by Rev. Wright,[89][90] Obama responded by condemning Wright's remarks and ending Wright's relationship with the campaign.[91] Obama delivered a speech, during the controversy, entitled "A More Perfect Union"[92] that addressed issues of race. After Wright reiterated some of his remarks in a speech at the National Press Club,[93] Obama strongly denounced Wright, whom he said "[presented] a world view that contradicts who I am and what I stand for."[94] Obama's association with Bill Ayers was also questioned in an ABC debate. Former radical activist Bill Ayers had joined Obama on the Woods Foundation board in 1999[13] and had hosted a fundraiser for Obama in 1996.[95] On May 31, 2008
Barack Obama resigned from the Chicago Trinity Church in a further
public speech, Obama said he made the decision after racially charged
comments by pastor Michael Pfleger were made towards Hillary Clinton.[96
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You mentioned that this election was going to be full of firsts for Hillary and her family, but it will also be for our President for the next 8 years, Barack Obama...
It will be the first Black president
The first ballot since 1984 that a Bush or Clinton will not be on the ballot
And the first President in a new line of Presidents that is concerned with the greater good of the nation, and not the greater good of their career