Letters to the Editor
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"Hillary was right there in the White House with Bill"
said a previous poster.
See, this is what grates about the Hillary candidacy. She takes credit for the "good things" her husband accomplished, but if someone tries to tag her for any bad thing her husband did, well, heck, she was just the l'il ole First Lady, and couldn't talk sense into him! I find it odious that she's claiming "experience" based on things that she refuses to release the records on. We don't know what occurred in the Clinton White House, and they'd be happy if we never did. Sorry, we're trying to get rid of one secretive president, let's not replace him with another. Finally, honey, you can't have it both ways. If she was "right there with Bill" in the White House, then her candidacy violates the 22nd Amendment.
I'm a woman and I'm voting AGAINST Hillary. I used to be neutral on her. Now she makes me sick with her lies and fake ploys for sympathy among her mooing followers.
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Obama
Re: "If she was "right there with Bill" in the White House, then her candidacy violates the 22nd Amendment."
No it doesn't. You can spin this any way you want, but the fact is that she has more experience and more knowledge of the bureaucracy and public policy than Obama.
That's the case even if you just compare their records in the Senate. Obama is the least experienced candidate for President in modern history. No way will he be able to deal with the people Dubya leaves behind. He couldn't even deal with Bill!
He's a great orator, but that's it. I guess that's all it takes anymore. We've had three empty suits as president in my lifetime: Reagan, Dubya and now maybe Obama.
McCain will easily win on national security if Obama is the nominee. The latte crowd will have done in the Dems yet again!
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Obama
On the face of it, Mr. Obama seems to have views on immigration that are more progressive. Recall Hillary's position as stated in the last debate that if illegal immigrants pay a fine as well as back taxes that they should be given legal status. Recall Obama's statement that he doesn't endorse the scapegoating of illegal immigrants by working class African-Americans vying for the same jobs
Obama says whatever is safe and conveniet. He said that to blame immigrants for high unemployment of inner-city young african-americans would be 'scapegoating,' which he does not support. It is absolutely true, very safe, and... does not answer the question he was asked.
Obama not only wants illegal immigrants to pay the fine, he wants them to 'go to the back of the line'...for their citizenship, forgetting to explain where do they have to wait, and can they work while waiting, and why do they have to go to the back of the line to obtain the citizenship, when all they want is working permits.
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Barack Obama - The Best choice for a divided America
Hillary Clinton is the most divisive, polarizing, mean spirited, nasty politician our country has seen since Richard Nixon. If you want revenge against the Republicans and bitter partisanship in Congress, vote for her. Revenge and bitterness will take you only so far and will not solve any of the problems our nation faces. However, if you want a candidate who will reach across the aisle and get meaningful legislation passed to solve our nations problems with health care, the environment, the economy, immigration, and restore our nations values by improving our foreign policy and no longer making America a pariah in the world you have but one choice: Barack Obama. It's very simple: if you want divisiveness and polarization choose Hillary Clinton, if you prefer our leadership working together to solve our nations problems choose Barack Obama.
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Silly Logic
Based on your logic that experience trumps all, then McCain is going to slaughter Hillary or Barack. The fact of the matter is that a lot of people are sick of the old guard in Washington D.C. The Republicans can't stand McCain, but you better believe if Hillary is the nominee, the Republicans are going to come out in droves to keep her from getting the White House. There is no way Hillary can win the general election. She is too divisive, and too many people hate her. Alot of this hatred is irrational Republican lunacy, but it exists none the less.
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If Americans want change
they should quit being so obsessed with their presidents and work on reviving the Congress. Cut the president's power now, before they get used to it. It does not matter whether the president is good, bad, or average, he should not have so much power.
I want to be able to say that my fellow countrymen can elect a Paris Hilton (well...they actually did and are doing now after making sure the candidates don't have vaginas), and I will still be safe from the president's quirks.
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Unbelievable
Ezhik2,
You think that telling black people to stop scapegoating and blaming Latinos for their high unemployment is a safe answer? You must be kidding! Ask Bill Cosby and a lot of other high profile blacks about the backlash they received from large segments of the black community when they tried to be realistic with blacks about the problems in their communities.
I guess it was also a safe bet when Obama made the speech against the Iraq War in 2002 when people were being branded as traitors for speaking out against the war.
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Ophrameter
I wish I could design an Ophrameter to mesure the level of ophrishness. It would save time.
I read Obama's books... Well, not really. I read the first and parts of the second. I didn't buy it, I read it in the store. Sorry, Borders.
It is a rare saccharine drivel. The ophrishness index is 1.00 (100%). My two acquaintances, ladies of Obama's age BTW, liked it very much. They also live Ophra and actually took notice when she endorsed Obama.
They are very nice, very sweet women, but I wish I established the correlation earlier.
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It was
Keithy,
it was absolutely safe at that place at that time and in the way he put it. That is why nobody sneezed and he did not lose a single black voice. Reagan had the same gift: he knew what audience can take what, when, and how much.