It has lasted too long!

Last week, American media focused on Barack Obama’s relationship with Reverend Jeremiah Wright and Hillary Clinton’s loss of memory. I would like to come back on both events. As for Obama’s relationship with Rev. Wright, the sermons of the latter do not engaged the former and I think Senator Obama had the elegance to remain faithful to the one who has been his friend for years. As for Senator Clinton, things are a little bit different. Indeed, it appeared clearly that Hillary Clinton lied to people by stating that she put her life in danger in Bosnia while she was the First Lady.
Media focused on Clinton’s lie as it has shocked the morality expected from someone running for the presidential office. They also immediately drew conclusions from this lie, saying that Hillary Clinton may have lied for months on her experience.
As far as I am concerned, I think that this lie underscores a huge problem this primary is facing: it has lasted too long. Indeed, if the media focus on Rev. Wright sermons and on Hillary Clinton’s lie, it demonstrates first and foremost that the candidates are running out of arguments. They no longer know what to say to voters to convince them. In addition, I do think that voters do not expect anything more from the candidates; people know perfectly the arguments and the program that the candidates have been relentlessly repeating for more than a year. Hillary Clinton’s lie has pointed out that voters and the entire US democracy have nothing to win in such a long campaign.