After their back-to-back declarations this week, the political world is abuzz with analyses and comparisons of a May-December clash between potential presidential contenders Marco Rubio and Hillary Clinton. Republican Sen. Rubio is 43, the son of Cuban immigrants and, in his fourth year in the Senate, a relative rookie. Clinton, 67, a former FLOTUS, U.S. Senator and Secretary of State is a political pro. Are you getting that deja vu feeling here?
Not surprisingly, said The Washington Post, Rubio is casting himself as the Moses who will lead us into “the new American century” — assuming, that is, he doesn't get run over by the Jeb Bush fundraising juggernaut. “Yesterday is over,” Rubio told the crowd gathered for his announcement in Miami on Monday, “and we’re never going back.”
For Clinton, yesterday is loaded with land mines, from Whitewater to Benghazi to the recent email scandal from her State Department tenure. But Clinton's latest liability, suggests The Atlantic, is her glossy, anodyne, politically correct campaign video. "If the War on Terrorism or global economic competition requires the next president of the United States to identify some cheerful, clean-cut, ethnically diverse Americans with winning smiles and glowing complexions, Hillary Clinton is up to the task," writes The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf. "Her team even made sure to include both dog and cat owners... Every sentence could've been uttered by any politician."
