Well I just listened to Sen. Clinton and then Obama in Wisconsin on C-Span.

Sen. Clinton actually brought tears to my eyes when she spoke about the vets and the children. And I think she may have had one or two as well. She spoke of a vet who said not to forget his friends back in Iraq who need our help but that when it was over, please not to forget about fixing him too.

As she always does, she *detailed* her real solutions to our country's problems. You know she has them well thought out and planned out.

Then Obama, the rock star takes his turn. He did the usual "Washington insider" bit going on about how he's different, how he's not a Washington guy etc., etc. Well, we heard that before didn't we? Remember back in 2000 when George W. Bush spoke about Washington Insiders like it was something so horrible you couldn't even put it to words, braggin all the time how he wasn't one? And look what happened there.

Then Obama goes on to try to address the criticism of how his message of hope has been criticized (how dare we do that!). How does he do that? By taking sound bites from everything and everyone he could plagiarize from the Declaration of Independence, to old speeches of Martin Luther King. And as usual, he stirred up the crowd. You'd have thought it was the new civil rights ralley. (Apparently these people never experienced it the first time.) But as usual, there was a stark contrast in the lack of detail between the two candidates plans.

And of course he had to brag again about how he voted against the war.

I just hope that Wisconsinites are smart enough to see beyond his empty rhetoric.

Oh, and I almost forgot. As usual, he had his people call up on the Republican phone line and tell their story of how they are life long republicans but he is so great and amazing yada yada yada, that for the first time, they plan to vote for him.

Yeah, right. My guess is they are his workers making those calls, and those people were NEVER republicans.

I couldn't get a call through to speak my piece.

Rae