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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE Monday, March 24, 2008 OBAMA SUPPORTERS RUIN IT FOR SERVATIUS ness. If I'm going to get onboard Obama's magical mystery ride, I need his devotees to start telling me specifically why I should be for their guy and stop telling me why I should hate Hillary Clinton and now Bill Clinton—oh, and Geraldine Ferraro, too. And I guess whoever they decide they want me to hate next week so I'll do that instead of waiting for Obama to say something that means something. Seriously. Why is it, exactly, that Barack Obama's people can't just make a calm and rational argument in favor of their candidate? What will he do? How will he do it? I've probably asked a couple dozen of his supporters these very questions. I've tried to get them to explain to me what it is about him that appeals to them and every single response has been some breathless variation of, "Because he is someone who.finallyoffers the hope of real change!" I'm not really sure what that means. It^ sounds like a fortune cookie or a horoscope. It's the fuzzy blobs on the ultrasound. It certainly doesn't say anything to me about 45 million people without health care, thousands of dead American soldiers or the tidal wave of foreclosures and layoffs destroying lives and families from coast to coast. letters@ chronicle.utah.edu continued from Page 5 tack comes right on the heels of senior Obama advisor Samantha Power calling Hillary Clinton a "monster" in an interview with a Scottish newspaper. A monster? How do you justify that level of nastiness? Let's review. Hillary Clinton was the driving force behind the creation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program. Because of what she did, poor kids in America can more easily get much-needed medical care. Is that what a "monster" would do with her time? I think that the existence of the SCHIP program alone pretty much disqualifies Hillary from ever being categorized as a monster, no matter what faults she may have. It gets worse. On the various lefty blogs and media outlets supporting Obama, the Clintons have been called everything from "just like Karl Rove" (Air America) to "profoundly stupid" (Daily Kos) to "insane" (Huffington Post). This is the antidote to Washington's divisiveness? This is a different tone? There is absolutely nothing either Clinton or any of their supporters have ever said that even approaches this levtel of mouth-frothing hateful- SHATTUCK WANTS TO LIVE continued from Page 5 years, as is demonstrated by 70-ycar-old Nobel Prize winner Mario Capecchi, who lapped me more than once on tfre track at the Field House a The Chrony is getting ready to hire for all senior staff positions. E-mail Dustin at d.gardiner@chronide.utah.edu IN Nino for more information. THE CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE & THE COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES ASIA CENTER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PRESENTS CHINESE CULTURAL few weeks ago. We can make positive changes today that will not only leave us feeling better about ourselves tomorrow but will also lengthen our lives. Which reminds me, I need to start planning for my funeral. April 19 is right around the corner. letters@chronicle.utah.edu THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAfTS FOURTH ANNUAL GORDON B. HINCKLEY LECTURE IN BRITISH STUDIES tt THE MORAL CONSCIENCE OF THE WORLD": SCHEDULE OF EVENTS THE UNITED NATIONS AND THE PARTITION OF PALESTINE 1URCH 2417 PU , PERFORMANCE HALL Chinese Minic Concert by Dn. 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T i l t UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Ethnic Studies 2550: African American Experiences Ethnic Studies 2560: Chicana/o Experiences Ethnic Studies 2570: American Indian Experiences Ethnic Studies 2580: Asian Pacific American Experiences Neil Shubin Free and open to the public! I4CO111D Lecture on an exhibit Df the fammis Saruir>9ctui irdieoiogkal fuxi in Sichuan, THE U M T Y OF UTAH China, by Professor L taotao. Deputy Director of Sichuan UnWersfty Museum For General Education and Diversity Credit: Organismal Biology and Anatomy University of Chicago Aline W. Skaggs Biology Bldg. ' Check out the following ethnic Studies Courses and learn more about the diverse groups of people in the United States and Utah. New Evidence of How Fish Evolved to Walk on Land Wed, April 2 • 7:30 p.m. IURCH29112 W Need a Diversity or General Education Course for Summer or Fall Semester? Frontiers of Science Lecture Series Shubin will give a live radio interview on KCPW 88.3 and 105.3 FM on Wed, April 2, from 9:10 to 9:30 a.m. Tune in! ' THE CONFUCIUS INSTtTUTE www.hum.utah.edu Shubin researches the evolutionary origin of anatomical features of animals. He has conducted field work in Greenland, China, Canada, much of North America and Africa, and he has published multiple articles in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleobiology, as well as more than 18 articles in Science and Nature. . mCU 11 IB Doojm«iUry Aim about the life and wtfik of an artist during the Cultural Revolution, by Combat Rims and Research the United Nations—and the creation of the state of Shubin's most recent discovery, Tiktaalik roseae, has been dubbed the "missing link" between fish and land animals! 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