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• Thursday, February 7, 2008 03:57 AM

  The Experience Line

  @Atlanta214:

  I see that you hate Obama as much as I hate Clinton. But seriously, this claim that she's a paragon of "experience" seems really questionable. She's in the first year of her second term as Senator, while Obama is in the middle of his first term. That's not a large difference.

  Unless you count fucking the President as "experience", which Hillary supporters apparently do. But I don't think that experience is communicable via spermatozoa.

  I'm sure she worked on some policy issues as First Lady (including kneecapping Al Gore, apparently). But she was unofficial, unaccountable, unelected, and secret. She and her husband won't release the documentation of her time in the White House, so the public has no way to verify her claims.

  And let's take a look at her experience in the Senate. She played the chump for George W. Bush, voting to give him authority to start the war in Iraq. I don't know about you, but to me it was totally obvious at the time that that vote handed Bush and Cheney the greatest gift imaginable: a long-term war that would rally the public behind them, enabling them to beat the Democrats to death as "weak on national security", securing Republican electoral dominance through 2006, and allowing them to loot the Treasury through crooked defense contracts.

  That was obvious to me, and to others - including some in the media. But Clinton still voted for the Iraq authorization. Which brings me to this question: was she stupid? Did Bush, the dim bulb of the Bush family, trick this so-wonderful, so-brilliant woman?

  If so, she's not qualified to babysit dogs, much less hold public office. That level of gullibility is absolutely unacceptable in the White House.

  Or perhaps she took a long, cold look at the vote, and reasoned that if she voted against it, the Republicans would use that vote to label her as unpatriotic in this Presidential election.

  In which case, she cold-bloodedly sold the lives of thousands of American soldier as well as untold numbers of Iraqis, allowed hundreds of thousands of people to be maimed, and CRIPPLED the Democratic Party for HER OWN POLITICAL ADVANTAGE.

  There's a word for that. Treason.

  Either way, that vote alone should disqualify her for higher office. Throw in her support of the Iran "terrorist" bill (yet another invitation to Bush to start a phony war), the flag-burning bill, and her support of the 2001 bankruptcy bill - one of the most vicious bills ever leveled at the working class - and you have someone who shouldn't be allowed within a hundred miles of Washington D.C.

  "Experience" like that is the last thing America needs. We've had enough of it from Bush.

  —Peter Maranci Read Peter Maranci's other letters
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