Letters to the Editor
designated_knitter
Published Letters: 116 Editor's Choice: 3
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HRC chose to highlight her years as 1st lady = presidential experience
[Read the article: A closer look at Clinton's Bosnia schedule]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Therefore, if the actual records show that her "experience" isn't as significant as she would have you believe, that is fair game. I've been married to a physician for 17 years. That doesn't make me qualified to hang out a shingle and start practicing medicine.
And the sniper thing -- I'm even willing to give that to her. There may have been snipers on the ground in bosnia. However, that proves nothing. She stood more of a risk of being injured by riding in traffic in DC or flying in a helicopter from the white house to camp david than any threat she faced in Bosnia.
I still find it impossible to believe that her husband (who she has this "connection that transcends everything" would be so cavelier about his families safety as to allow them to go to parts of the world with nothing but a couple of secret service folks, a 2nd rate comedian and has-been singer as her main protection. If that is truly the case then Bill was more despicable than his personal transgressions would have you believe and I think that is a MUCH more offensive attitude than letting some teeny bopper blow you in the oval office. At least getting a blow job doesn't typically put the lives of your own family at risk (we'll leave out the whole STD discussion for now).
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@luckykat
[Read the article: A closer look at Clinton's Bosnia schedule]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yes, I have acquired knowledge over the years from listening to my husband. I can talk pretty intelligently to my own healthcare providers. However, when my mother was on a vent, I didn't try to manage her vent settings etc. I was in a better position to understand what her physicians were telling me and be able to translate that back to my sisters. However if I tried to suggest to the MDs that they should do x, y and z because I would listen in on my husband taking calls from the hospital, they would have (justifiably so) laughed there white coats off.
Knowing a little more than the average layperson still does not qualify me to practice medicine. It would be the height of arrogance and ego to think otherwise. Remember the silly commercial from the 80s (now I'm really dating myself and my level of "life experience") -- i'm not a doctor but I play one on TV -- like that makes him qualified to tell me what to do with my health!
If you come up to me and try to diagnose me based on what you think you know from your husband, I'm going to maintain (politely) that you are no more fit to to determine what is wrong with me than my dog. That is just fact. Perhaps you are offended by that and believe that others should give you "medical courtesy" just because you are married to a doctor. If you want to practice medicine, then you need to go to medical school yourself.
But some things (well -- most things actually) you have to do first hand to be proficient at them. So while I believe that Hillary is ready from day 1 to navigate her way from the personal quarters of the white house to the oval office and to know how to run the White House as a living space, hanging out with Sinbad and Sheryl Crow for a couple of hours in Bosnia does not a commander-in-chief make.
Does that mean I think Obama is more qualified? No. But as McCain has shown over the last couple of days, just because you have hung out on this planet a bit longer than your counterparts doesn't make you the best candidate for the job.
(anyone else think that McCain is starting to seem more senile? Its as if his handlers have let up now that he has secured the nomination. He is making Reagan -- who had alzheimers -- look positively sharp)
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Joan is a typical middle aged wanna be pundit
[Read the article: Moving beyond Obama and race]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]She doesn't have the looks or the body to cut it on Fox after dark so she has to say outrageous stuff to get attention. She is like a child who isn't getting attention and is ticked off about it. After all -- *SHE* is the expert journalist. We should all bow to her opinion and her wisdom. The fact that she can't get a pundit gig anymore prominent that Joe -- who has been demoted to morning slots is particularly infuriating. So then she goes out of her way to make up cracks about "obamatons" to get a rise out of her audience and ensure that the website gets hits -- even angry hits are better than no hits.
But dont' dare question her journalistic integrity by accusing her of being biased against obama (btw, has she used some cute little cutting phrase to refer to Clinton supporters?) If so, I would love to see it.