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• Monday, March 12, 2007 09:56 PM

  Authentic?

  I haven't read your article. However, the introductory blurb states why I could not support Hilary Clinton. She is not authentic. She is not an authentic anything.

  I am a registered nonpartisan. I used to vote both sides of the aisle, but I now wonder how I could ever vote for any Republican for any office, after the abuses of the past few years.

  However, I could not vote for Hilary Clinton at all because of her aggressive stance on Iraq, her enabling of George W. Bush. Period. She has no core values or vision for the future - rather, she thinks she's earned some stripes and is entitled to a certain amount of fealty from the left - and that she can lick her finger, test the winds, and then deserve support for whatever the winds tell her her position is.

  No. I will leave the presidential ballot blank before I will vote for such a calculating, dismissive, cement-souled candidate. Even if it means another disastrous Repub regime.

  Democrats MUST start putting candidates with genuine heart, concerns, vision and ideas out there. I think Obama and Edwards are on the right track - they have places they want to take this country to and they have an innate, caring, honesty that pierces the gloom of the political landscape.

  I cheered when Hilary won New York the first time. But she's turned out to be not a moderate, but a run-of-the-mill calculating office-seeker, all ambition, no heart. You can't cover that up by speaking intimately on the web from someone's living room or rushing and gushing in all the right (left) places. I think she lost it when she made the cookies.

  Trust is going to be a huge issue by the time George Bush packs his (faux) cowboy hat and heads back to Texas. We will truly need a "uniter, not a divider" who can pull a disillusioned American populace away from meanness, division, conflict, horrors of war, the Bush scandals yet to come - and FATIGUE - towards rebuilding a civil society of respect and care and rebirth.

  Hilary should concentrate on doing a good job of representing New York and using her celebrity to assist truly worthy candidates. There's a job out there that's just bigger than her and we can't afford another diminutive president.

  —Ghillie Read Ghillie's other letters
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