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madamfauntleroy
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KateTex
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[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thank you KateTex. Now we can have a meaningful conversation, which will benefit both of us. I get that you are concerned that Barack Obama does not have the same experience, but I am befuddled as to the gravitas.
Nonetheless, here is what my position is.
1. What experience does Hillary Clinton have, especially in foreign policy which makes her more fit to be president?
a. She has been an elected official for only 6 or 7 years from the State of NY which was never her place of resident, but more by virtue of her being the spouse of a former President.
b. The Irish government, just today, laughed at her claim in bringing peace to Ireland. She just happened to shake a few hands and share some meals with some heads of state. They said that she was more like a cheerleader than anyone who negotiated anything, much less peace in Ireland
c. Her trip to China for a women's conference where she proclaimed that women's rights are human rights is admirable. But that was a speech in a women's conference and did not amount to anything that she did to change or negotiate with the Chinese government.
d. She has been to 80 countries. I have been to more than 80 countries in the world. Does that make me an expert in foreign affairs? Yes, if I had academic credentials and no, if I was just visiting the countries. She has no academic foreign policy background either.
e. She counts her 8 years in the White House as experience. That is indeed specious and stupid in the face of it, because that implies that Laura Bush too is qualified to be President plus she has four more years on Hillary Clinton because she also had 4 more years of her father-in-law Bush the first. This kinda sounds like birthright and monarchy.
f. Apart from that, Hillary Clinton for over 20 years worked for a corporate law firm in Arkansas that never did anything in terms of community development or improving education, or women's issues.
g. Hillary Clinton voted for the war in Iraq. So one can argue that even if she has the experience, which she doesn't, she did not make the right call. There are many Democrats like Ted Kennedy, Patty Murray and others, who did not vote for the war in Iraq and they have their credibility intact. Hillary Clinton also sponsored the flag burning legislation, ban on land mines, and other military stuff that convinces me that she is not really ready to end the war and once elected will get right back in with the Bush and McCain crowd. The girl who was in the 3am ad has now come out and said that she did not know that her image was used and she is voting for Obama.
h. I support Barack Obama because he does have better judgement and experience. I would not ridicule his 20 years service in community development. He has proven to have exceptional organizational skills like bringing a diverse cross section of society together. He is inclusive. Hillary Clinton is exclusive. Barack Obama will govern with a bottom up approach. Hillary Clinton will govern with the top down approach. Clinton thinks that only she can solve the problems, Obama knows that we all can come together to solve our local and national problems.
i. Most importantly, Obama has run a pretty clean campaign. Clinton has gone negative with speculation and innuendo
OK. I have many more but will not bore you.
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ljwalker53
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Carry on Miss Walker with your vitriole and jingoism. You are no longer anyone I will dialogue with. Don't begrudge yourself that your shit don't stink. It stinks to high heaven with your sophomoric rants and stupid copied evidence from Clinton talking points. Your posts reek of racist ignorance and arrogant entitlement. Take a chill pill and fart it out from where the sun don't shine.
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ljwalker53
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are an annoying gnat of twittering stupidity who passes herself off as an intellectual. Such arrogance for being such an ignorant racist. Goodbye
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tom payne
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]tom payne honey, you do have a way with words. Still laughing.
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Reality-based Liberal
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]They will never answer that question. KateTex did. Bless her. But the rest will throw shit back to see how much of their racist rants will stick. Don't you know by now, that for some Clinton fans, it is not about experience, it is about race. Obama wins, they vote McCain. Hell, Hillary Clinton has already set them up for that. All those who afraid of immigrants, minorities, gays and lesbians, poor, workers, move to the right. All others move to the left. That's why we are losing winning games. Racism is alive and well in America. God Bless America.
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ShawnWM
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Just learn from the master, you who are so free with your racist crap. Not all Clinton supporters are racist, but you are. You are the master. I bow to you.
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Reality-based Liberal
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I too did not think that KateTex' answer was sufficient, but she did try. She does not want her candidate to be seen in a bad light on it. So go after the candidate's opponent. But I give her marks for responding.
What strikes me is old 60s political activists on this thread who are so shying away from the seething masses, which is a code for being afraid of reinstating affirmative action. The angry white male syndrome among the aging white male who would rather vote for McCain than Obama. That is the subtext. That is why it is not appropriate to answer your questions because then we will know the real reason.
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ljwalker53
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I did send a post on John Kerry. But you have your own axe to grind and preferred to ignore it, lest you would have to change your tune on how Obama's people are all uncritical thinkers. Go check it out. You know where to find it.
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Shawn the Yawn
[Read the article: Some free advice for Obama]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Leave him alone Doc. He'll wear himself out and collapse in a heap of self inflicted fury. He has to take it out somewhere. Let it be here.