Hillary’s legacy

In the meantime, Senator Obama has done much to change the Democratic Party’s political agenda as he tailors the party platform toward younger people and voters who have stayed away from the polls for many elections.

While much should be said about Obama’s status as the first African-American nominee of a major U.S. party, the primary victory scored by Senator Obama also shows that Americans are eager to welcome new leadership.

This falls in line with the trend here in Taiwan to shun “old faces” in favor of “new faces” whose agendas are largely untested.

Even though Senator Obama has only served a single term in the U.S. Senate and most Americans hardly knew of him until several months ago, he has captured the idealistic spirit of youthful leadership that once belonged to another young Democratic Party leader, former President John F. Kennedy.

Observing the U.S. election from our vantage point here in Taiwan, the most obvious danger for Obama’s candidacy will be any unknown skeletons Obama might have lurking in a closet somewhere.

We assume that aides working for Obama’s rival, Republican Party nominee Senator John McCain, are already working at full speed to dig up negative information on Obama now that Clinton has formally endorsed her former rival.

While Clinton was dragged through the mud and had her every indiscretion exposed and analyzed to pieces years ago, the world press has yet to get serious about investigating Senator Obama’s past.

We hope that any developments that might seriously harm Obama’s candidacy were already brought out by Clinton during the primary season.

This way, the American people will have a genuine choice presented before them when they go to the polls this coming November.

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