A matter of trust
By Derrick Z. Jackson | Tuesday, November 20, 2007 | The Boston Globe
“…Trust and character should be more central than ever to the election of the next president. Democrat President Clinton promised so many things, then almost immediately chickened out on healthcare and openly gay soldiers. He destroyed his remaining moral capital and political juice by lying in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Republican President Bush promised to be pro-environment and pro-education and annihilated his credibility in a deadly war over weapons of mass destruction that did not exist.
After nearly 15 years of that, candidates have every right to challenge each other on who can be trusted. That goes all the way around, whether it is Edwards questioning if Clinton is part of a corrupt lobbyists system, whether it is Obama chiding Clinton on prewar positions, or Clinton firing back at both Edwards and Obama on whether their hands are clean. It includes whether Republican Mitt Romney is a hopeless flip-flopper or rival Rudy Giuliani was too loyal to disgraced former New York police commissioner Bernard Kerik.
This includes Richardson himself saying things like Edwards wants to start a class war and Obama is trying to start a generational war. The next president will have a war to manage, an unmanageable healthcare system, and a global image to repair. There are no more urgent reasons for a president we can reasonably trust….”
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