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Obama or Clinton? Huckabee! by Europe & Us 2008-01-09 09:51:35 |
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For many months, the two most asked questions raised in the US presidential elections were "Is America ready for a woman in the White House?“ and "Is America ready for an Afro-American in the White House?“. Somehow, the question of the next president of the USA was reduced to the duel between Obama and Clinton. While Barack Obama outscored his competitors on the Democratic side in Iowa by scoring 38% in this strange Iowa caucus grass-roots democratic process, pushing Hillary Clinton (29%) back to the third place, even behind John Edwards (30%), the presidential race has seen another major surprise in Iowa, the state where the last three primaries gave a very exact idea of the two nominees for the final race.
This main surprise is Mike Huckabee, who actually won 17 of the 33 grand voters who will represent Iowa in the final stage of the elections. Huckabee, not very much known to the US public and a former senator of Arkansas, stands for rather conservative, religious values and might be the answer of the American people to the two questions raised at the beginning of the campaign. So, who is Mike Huckabee? Huckabee is a fierce opponent to abortion, defends the right to carry guns („It is not the guns killing people, it’s their illegal use“) and considers the war in Iraq to be „a battle in our generational, ideological war on terror“. Consequently, he is opposed to any time table for the withdrawal of the troops from Iraq which translates into the continuation of the US war in Iraq. His falcon attitudes sharply contrast with the change attitude of the democrats and indicate some sort of extra time fort he Bush politics in the world. Although all polls indicate that a vast majority of US citizens would like to terminate the US war in Iraq („bring back our boys“), they are still able to vote for a candidate who wants to continue this war. The presidential race in the USA can not be limited any longer to the question Barack or Hillary. The winner of the democratic nomination process might as well be a republican who is likely to continue the George Bush politics. A woman in the White House? An Afro-American in the White House? Change of US politics? You think that the world and the USA have seen the worst with George W. Bush? Huckabee might become the next step of the USA back to the Middle Age. Is America ready for a woman or an Afro-American in the White House? Probably not, Americans might even vote for the Iraq war just to avoid any of the two in the supreme office.
Kai Littmann is journalist  (Taken from www.europeus.org)
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