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Friday, May 30, 2008 01:42 AM

What did Hillary do to generate so much dislike?

I know I am preaching to the choir, Malusinka, but let me add more.

First, we saw and heard Hillary getting noticeably choked up while talking about herself to earn cheap points just before the NH primary that she thought she was going to lose. Second, we saw Clinton compare Dr. Martin Luther King Jr with Lyndon Banes Johnson, as if somehow LBJ deserved more credit for the civil rights acts passage than MLK did. Last I saw we don't celebrate LBJ's birthday (did she really expect not to piss off the African American community with that comment). Third, in another attempt to earn cheap points, she accused Obama of plagiarism. Forth, in probably the worst political betrayal in primary history she claimed that McCain had passed the "Threshold of Commander in Chief", and then alluded that Obama had not. Fifth, She never hesitated to parrot wingnut talking points by bringing up reverend Wright as much as she could (did she expect that to endear her to African American voters). Sixth, in another effect to score cheap points, she (of all people) claimed that Obama's bitter-cling comment was elitist, and then spoke of her time shooting at ducks. Seventh, knowing that she had already screwed up royally with the African American community (and was now losing their vote by an even higher margin the Bush was) she played racial division politics to the extreme by claiming that she was winning the "working, hard-working Americans, white Americans" vote (any remaining African American support that Hillary still had must have died right then and there).

All of this I was willing to forgive after Hillary went on the situation room, and said "Anybody who has ever voted for me or voted for Barack has much more in common in terms of what we want to see happen in our country and in the world with the other than they do with John McCain." but then she had to stick her big fat foot into her mouth one last time by reminding us that Robert Kennedy (shortly after a malignant tumor was found in Ted Kennedy's brain) was "assassinated" in June of 1968, and that she should stay in the race for that reason.

And then there is of course my personal reasons for losing my faith in Hillary Clinton. She still has not regretted her decision to vote to give Bush authorization to invade Iraq, and I find her "obliterate" Iran remark very disturbing, especially in light of the fact that every intelligence gathering agency on the planet, includes our own, states very clearly that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program, nor ambition to have one.

Still, Hillary Clinton is better than McCain.

Friday, May 30, 2008 12:58 AM

To AKA Smith

So, your chances of voting for Obama are exceeding slim, because of what Obama supportive bloggers are writing about Hillary and Hillary supporters?

That sounds rather childish don't you think?

You can be bitter about this (I myself am not entirely happy with how Obama has, most likely, obtained the nomination), but I highly recommend you get over Hillary Clinton. She is not worth going nuts over.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 02:56 PM

To Juliebird

I really wish I could introduce you to the female JAG that is less than 100 meters from my shop. She is a full bird navy captain, and you would be impressed (I sure as hell as was). She could go into great detail about all that the military is doing to combat the current rape/sexual assault problems we have had out in the field. She would also tell you that we have a pretty high conviction rate in ragards to rapists, much higher than what we have in the civilian world.

The rules, policies, training, guidelines, and laws are not the problem.

The military mind frame and mentality, and what combat does to the human psyche is. Believe me, if I knew of anyone that had raped or sexually assualted another servicemen, I would report them immediately.

However, you are right in your concern about the PTSS treatment problems the military is having, but they don't just affect female servicemen, they affect all servicemen.

If you want a tour, I could probably give you one.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 02:55 PM

To Juliebird

I really wish I could introduce you to the female JAG that is less than 100 meters from my shop. She is a full bird navy captain, and you would be impressed (I sure as hell as was). She could go into great detail about all that the military is doing to combat the current rape/sexual assault problems we have had out in the field. She would also tell you that we have a pretty high conviction rate in ragards to rapists, much higher than what we have in the civilian world.

The rules, policies, training, guidelines, and laws are not the problem.

The military mind frame and mentality, and what combat does to the human psyche is. Believe me, if I knew of anyone that had raped or sexually assualted another servicemen, I would report them immediately.

However, you are right in your concern about the PTSS treatment problems the military is having, but they don't just affect female servicemen, they affect all servicemen.

If you want a tour, I could probably give you one.

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