PrintMarch 24, 2008
The Clinton Campaign's Opportunity
Conventional wisdom says the debates between Clinton and Obama lack substance because their proposals are virtually identical. They do differ, though, in one important area that the Clinton campaign still has time to exploit - Barack's dramatic increase in foreign aid. Clinton and Obama differ in the geographical reach of their social engineering designs. Hers are domestic; his, both foreign and domestic. Hers promise to be expensive. His would require a major reconfiguration and expansion of the federal budget.Obama's core campaign document, The Blueprint For Change: Barack Obama's Plan for America, cascades a host of domestic social proposals offering cures for nearly every known societal malady, and some unknown. Although most of his Blueprint plans have no price tag, at least two do have numbers attached: (1) the plan to Create Millions of Green Jobs, $150 billion over 10 years; and (2) the K-12 plan package, $18 billion per year, indefinitely. Just...(Read Full Article)
