The Job Interview

The latest from the Hillary Clinton camp is that the Democratic nomination contest between Obama and Clinton should been seen as a job interview.

Not that most voters weren’t already looking at it that way, casting their votes for the candidate they believed was best prepared to lead the country.  But for the sake of argument, if voters hadn’t been approaching this as a job interview, and they had a chance to do so now, would the results be any different?

Probably.

Obama would already have secured the nomination.

What the Clinton campaign seems to be forgetting is one of the national electorate’s primary concerns is turning around our slumping economy:  getting control of run-away spending, slicing deficits, investing in education and job-producing technological areas.

If the voters were to look at the Clinton campaign as an example of what her national economic policies would be like, what would it tell them?

That her economic policies would look an awful lot like those of George W. Bush.

Her campaign is more than $20 million in debt and surviving on borrowed money.

Sound familiar?  That’s the same failed approach that has undermined the US economy.

On the other hand, the Obama campaign is running a surplus, engaging record numbers of contributors, uniting hundreds of thousands of low-dollar donors in his effort.  That’s an economic model that works.

I’m not so sure that recasting this nomination process as a job interview is something the Clinton campaign really wants to do.  If American voters look at how these campaigns are being run, the candidate they are going to hire is Barack Obama.

Posted by Bernie Campbell on Tuesday, May 20, 2008
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