Letters to the Editor
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Another DLC Puke
To hell with hillary. She voted for teh war!
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Another Bad Idea
Her qualities as a politician or stateswoman are irrelevant. Whether America is ready for a woman president is irrelevant. Her fundraising ability, though significant, is also unimportant given the bigger issue:
She is entirely unelectable. Nothing will rally the Right Wing base like a Hillary candidacy; nothing will chill the Democratic base like another warmed over, Clinton era, triangulating, DLC sell out; and nothing will make the undecideds close the door in our face like another pandering Northern politico with a history rich with ammo for the swift boating Republicans (who also happens to be Hillary Freaking Clinton). Talk about a divider--most of the Dems I know don't like her, and most of the Republicans outright hate her. And I'm from New York State! You know how she will play in Peoria? Let me tell you: Badly.
Fortunately, I expect the primaries to take the wind right out of her sails.
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Uninspired.
Eh. I wouldn't WANT to vote for her. However, if she was the one the dems nominated then she might get my vote.
Sometimes I think I should forgo my independent status and register with the dem party... but then I hang out with folks that have actually done that and they drive me up the friggin' wall.
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Craving for New and Fresh Political Leader not jaded and timid Washington Insider
She is a big phoney and opportunist who can change her position any time if it can get her votes.
She voted for the war.
She and her husband are so willing to sacrifice and use the Democratic Party for their own political ambition.
I will not vote for her. Period.
I don't want a second run of a political family after the Bushs.
I want a new and fresh talent to lead the country.
Eight years of Clinton was enough for me. I hope they can recognize that there are other talented political leaders out there who deserve the opportunity. Why so greedy? Eight year is not enough?
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Not a good candidate.
I can't see her making it through to become the Dem nomination, but the way the party base is these days I suppose anything is possible.
I don't think she has what it takes to lead the ticket, but what if she ended up being a VP nom.?
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We've heard for fifteen years now
...about how the Clintons were gonna have their asses handed to them by the right wing or by somebody else. And it has yet to happen.
Jerry Brown, Paul Tsongas, George Bush I, Ross Perot, Rudy Giuliani, and two Republican Senatorial candidates in NY all found out the hard way that a Clinton isn't so easy to beat.
Hillary is, was, and will be a formidable candidate. The right wing will no doubt scream all day long about her, but in the end they are liable to once again overreach and help her win. It always seems to work out that way with the Clintons.
Whether she really is the best candidate for the Democrats remains to be seen, but I sure wouldn't call her a guaranteed loser.
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Ignorance of the Law is NO excuse.
Other than that; he or she who condones Murder is a Conspirator in that same regard!
Either you DEMAND an END to this MADNESS
or
As King George Walker Bush would say "If you are Not with us you are Against us.
As for Hillary, Mrs Past-First Lady: are you with us of A or with him?
IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY NOW!
BEFORE the "State of this DisUNION" Message to these United States of America.
sub sole sub umbra virens
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she's going nowhere
Hillary will not win the Democratic nomination. The activists, the kind that turn out for the early primaries, will not forgive her for her hawkishness. Her big piles of money will not help overcome her high negatives, not with the right but with Democrats. Iraq is issue #1, and she's on the wrong side. Worse, she seems to suffer from a need to overcompensate: people think weapon are weak, so she thinks she should show at every opportunity how hawkish she is. No, thank you, the Democrats will say.
She has no sense. At the height of the wave of protests about police shootings of blacks in NYC, by her constituents, she announced a press conference and came out against video games. She's running as if she thinks she has the nomination locked up and can move right to win the general election.
And this isn't just about her, it's about Bill: we don't need his foreign policy people back either; too many of them are unrepentent "liberal hawks" who helped sell the Iraq war. Enough of the Clintons.
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I'm Independant, and I will vote for her.
Some vocal people may hate her, but they have to admit her husband was effective, and she was a part of the reason. If she's elected, you get a two-for. Purists ont he right and left was a pure ideologue. The rest of us merely want a moderate who is competent.
The quiet middle doesn't want leftists or rightists. We want moderate competence, and a return to the 90s economy.
I hated Clinton's foreign policy and his Serbia campaign, but I'll take him (or Clark) over McCain or Bush redeux any day). Moderates are tired of extremes. It's time.
The Move On people need to look at what happened in Conneticut when they attempted to remove Lieberman to get a purist. The right wing Scaifites need to look at California and how their anointed party backed purist fared versus Scwartzenegger. Get practical. Purists are not electable.
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Unfortunately...
We want moderate competence, and a return to the 90s economy.
You're not gonna get either, really, Hillary or no-- Bill was amazingly lucky with the tech sector taking off on his watch, and it's going to take a helluva lot more than mere 'moderate competence' to undo the damage that has been done at every level of the federal government for the better part of a decade (by the time this nightmare ends). Gore might be the best long-term prospect for the economy, because he'd push for more innovation in tech and energy, but even then it would only be a matter of planting seeds to be harvested years later. What needs to happen on the next president's watch is going to be difficult and unsettling, but if we-- or you so-called moderates, I guess-- want nothing more than to just crawl back into a cocoon of comforting equivalencies and basic middle-management positioning masquerading as leadership, the rot within will continue to grow.
I swear, the mushy middle's sometimes harder to take than the wingnuts, because at least the wingnuts seem to believe in their untruths and devote some energy to being misinformed... the middle just acts resentful when forced to think about politics at all, and prefers dealing in vague emotional impressions to actually analyzing the realities of politics and policy. Joe Lieberman won by aggressively targeting 'low-information' voters, and Hillary will do best by following his example, because it's all about making disengaged people feel a certain way instead of bothering with the much smaller segment of voters who actually think.