Letters to the Editor
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@AKA Smith
Why on earth shouldn't he share with her something of value if he has useful information?
How about because it is very likely illegal?
Security clearances are incredibly tiered and the knowledge is extremely compartmentalized. It most certainly is not the case that your clearance automatically extends clearance to your spouse/partner. Nor that ex-presidents are entitled to grant security clearances. Seeing the PDB almost certainly requires a special clearance that Bill has and Hillary does not. If he shared specifics, he could easily be violating the same laws that Cheney, Libby, et al. trampled in the Valerie Plame scandal. (Or are you making a relying on the right-wing frame that the Clintons have their own set of laws?)
But even if she is cleared to see them --- unlike any other member of the senate --- what exactly is the point? Why should I feel more comfortable that the two-for-one Bill & Hillary team still didn't have the judgment to vote against the war?
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Hillary represents a old america no one wants to be around old folks foryears
Obama represnts a new america everyone wants to be around youth..
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@AKA SMITH
Another thing that happened during the first Clinton administration was that the budget was balanced and the nation was not put on the course of bankruptcy due to not taxing the rich and giving our tax money to Cheney's friends. The war is not much more than a rebate to the oil industry in my view--if they pay any taxes at all.
The "fiscal" conservative label used to describe Republicans basically no longer applies. If or rather when the shit hits the fan in the coming months, and, for instance, it is found the hedge funds have destroyed the economy because they aren't regulated, even Bush is going to have trouble not saying he will do something about it as he did with the sub-prime debacle.
I see you assumed I was referring to McCain, but I was thinking of Hillary. Interestingly, it reveals how they have the same strategy--only going toward it from their particular party perch.
I appreciate your commentary. It's been a rough haul making the case for Hillary here. I have no special brief for her, but like yourself I think it's been a scandal how she's been treated especially by her own kind. My hope is that the younger generation will not opt out if Obama doesn't make it like they did with Dean.
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@ Dagome
I know that it would be illegal if it happened as you envision, but it would not be illegal if it was simply predicated this way: There is information I have which you can have no access to and I believe this information would indicate that you should look at this issue in this manner _____________________. (Fill in the blank.)
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Moreover on your statement: "Why should I feel more comfortable that the two-for-one Bill & Hillary team still didn't have the judgment to vote against the war?"
I am not actually suggesting you should feel comfortable. I don't feel comfortable. However, part of my early opposition to the war was because of certain tendencies of my own:
1. I don't trust government. Oh no, not even a little bit.
2. I am pretty much a pacifist and oppose any war in which we are not responding to an actual or imminent attack.
3. Intuition. (Not judgment. I don't pretend to have the judgment of a seasoned political leader. John McCain is more qualified to decide issues of war than I am.)
I am merely pointing out how Hillary (and many) could have been easily misled. I do believe in sometimes forgiving people for their mistakes, even costly mistakes, when there is no malice intended. I actually see the Bush people as mostly malicious.
I am just saying that I am willing to give Senator Clinton some benefit of the doubt on her war vote. I am more wary of her vote on Kyl-Liberman and her unwillingness to offer a more full-throated apology. I think an unwillingness to admit her own mistakes is actually a personal weakness of Clinton's, both Clintons really. However, I see Obama's weakness as actually being too compromising and too easily led. I think he is enormously smart, just as Clinton is, but I think he underestimates how hard he has to work to get where he wants to go. I think there is too much tendency to improve his charm rather than he facts.
However, I like him. There is much to like about him. He's just not yet ready. I think he will be a better president, in fact a formidably good president, with more seasoning.
I support John Edwards because I like his stand on poverty mainly. However, there is a reason that he is not a star of this show that goes beyond the excitment about Clinton's sex or Obama's race. John Edwards is not dynamic as is Clinton or charismatic as is Obama. He lacks star power. I worry how he would stand up against McCain who has cultivated an enormous reputation. McCain has the respect of those who disagree with him on many issues. He even has my respect. He has earned his stripes. In a way, Obama, Clinton, and McCain are writ large. These people are giants.
George W. Bush has always been such a little person. So small and so disgusting. Like a roach.
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Anonymous - how many of you are there?
You wrote
"I'm also referring to Billary--the tag team couple (who run together and stay together on a ticket) who helped coin the phrase "wag the dog."
ummmmmm. The term was not coined during the Clinton administration. "don't let the tail wag the dog" has been around for a long long time.
There are a few "Anonymous" posters on this forum, with many differing views. Is it possible for you Anons to come up with a different handle, such as "ABC" or "XYC" or any noun that is not proper so we can distinguish one anonymous poster from the other? Heck, even I am anonymous, so your privacy is intact.
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Edwards would make a perfect VP he would make white male voters at ease..
Obama needs to continue to channel Reagan, this will offset Hillary's gender card and role with hispanics..
Obama can pull this off.. Obama needs his wife to attack the hypocrisy of white female privledge and feminism a construct which hurts Black woman and other woman of color on a number of fronts..
Obama's wife can make inroads with hispanic woman by informing them on how privledged white woman have no used for hispanic woman..
Obama can pull this off if he plays to win...