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I must admit that I never liked Hillary, although I voted for and supported her husband. I always considered her a to be an opprtunistic closet Republican who wouldn't be taken seriously as a presidential candidate if she hadn't been married to Bill Clinton. Having said that, any man who would consider voting for McCain if she became the Democratic nominee is a moron and a certified asshole who deserves to be forcibly shipped to Iraq without body armor.
Dick Cheney had had plenty of experience when he became the de-facto president in 2001 and look where it has gotten us. Having experience but the wrong ideology, ideas and character only means that a candidate has more experience in causing damage, destruction and mayhem. With Hillarys's great experience, she made the wrong choice on the most important vote of her life and she never even bothered to apologize for it. Do we need experience in being corrupt, making the wrong choices on economic policies and foreign afairs issues, in being bribed by the same lobbyists? Right now we need someone WITHOUT any experience in all of that, only someone who can make the correct choices and decisions, while surrounding himself with gerat advisors who wil not be afraid to offer him a vraiety of opinions and ideas, even when they contradict his own. The name of that someone is Barak Obama.
Hillary Clinton is smart enough to know that she has zero chance of becoming the nominee. However, she is an incredibly driven woman who has wanted to be the first female president so badly and for so long, that even the thought of dropping out is too distressing for her to contemplate. It's like a life shattering decision one has to make because there's no alternative. It's depressing and scary and you keep putting it off because you can't even bear to think of it. She will be forced to drop out on March 5th, but I don't envy her the incredible pain she would suffer.
It was Hillary's nomination to lose, and she managed to lose it. She ran a terrible campaign, her surrogates unecessarily alienating the black vote, Hillary constantly whining about the media and about distortions of her record. Her campaign didn't plan for the possibility that Obama wouldn't be knocked out on Super Tuesday and spent all their money by then. She managed to get on the nerves of most Democratic primaries voters with her anger, contrived complaining and non-stop whining. Her campaign was badly managed by by beltway insider consultants who kept making the wrong arrogant decisions. If a candidate runs her campaign in such a clumsy way, how can she expect to be trusted with the persidency?
is an uber-chauvinist, uber trigger happy-militaristic war monger who is also thick with lobbyists. The "mavrick", "moderate" shtick is a mask that hides one of the most extreme politicians of our time. He has been able to use the moderate/mavrick con only because the corporate media has enabled it. The McCain who is chummy with Hagee is the real McCain.
After watching Donahue many times over the last few years, I have to admit that he's only very marginally less awful than Hagee. However, if that Irish tug ends up peeling off a few thousands Catholics voters from McCain, especially in key states, hey, I could live with the thought of him till after the elections, then throw up.
I remember an MSNBC debate last year between Donohue and Christopher Hitchins who had just published his God Is Not Great book. Donohue kept interrupting Hitchins rather rudely, saying a few times:"An Englishman keeps quite when an irishman speaks". Sanity is highly relative when someone like Donohue, a truly repulsive character, seems benign when compared to a lunatic like Hagee.
There seems to be a hardcore of Clinton supporters who wrongly believe that she has a realistic chance of winning her party's nomination. This is rather astonishing, since she would need to win every remaining primary by large margins and then convince most superdelegates to vote for her. The odds of that happening are zero. If anything, obama will win most of the remaining primaries, possibly all of them. With the exception of the publicity and job sicking Hackebee, any rational candidate would have already withrawn from the race if he/she were in Clinton's position. Ihate to consider giuliani and Romney as rational, but they had been in hillaty's position and made the proper call. There's no reason for Hillary to still be in a race she will certainly lose. Presidential primaries are not an ego gratifying experience or an NFL game that must go on till the last second untill the ref blows the whistle, they are meant to pick the party's nominee for the presidency, period.
when he/she has no realistic chance of winning the nomination, not before. But once it's clear that the candidate cannot win, it's time to get out. Hillary is so scared of the tremendous void her withrawal would create in her life, that she would rather put it off untill the end of the primaries, because she just can't face the reality that she will never be the president. It doesn't mean that the Democratic party should indulge her, we have a presidential campaign to win.
This latest garbage from the Clinton campaign reminds me of the hillarious Baghdad Bob", Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the sorely missed former Iraqi information minister. How low the Clinton campaign has sunk.
After the last round in which Clinton lost every 5 states by large number, one of her senior spokeswomen, forgot her name(She's a large blond lady who's originally from Texas) appeared on a number of TV interview and proclaimed how happy the Clinton campaign was with the situation and how optimistic they were. She said something like:"we are exactly where we wanted to be, things are going our way and we are in great shape to win this nomination". Are they all crazy?