Letters to the Editor
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Ancientassyrian
Don't tell me that insider knowledge of the White House is not rare, unique education for a politician, or that numerous diplomatic missions around the world are not valid experience, or that holding a high-level political office for eight years is not helpful preparation for the presidency, or being a close confidant and advisor to a sitting president is not meaningful education for a candidate ...especially when the candidate is as savvy and sharp as Hillary.
As for Hillary's Iraq vote, I will not bother you to remind you about how many Democrats under tremendous pressure voted for the stupid war. I, too, was very angry for a long time, but I have become convinced that Hillary will effectively and carefully pull us out of that quagmire. Nor do I believe Obama's one little speech against the war when he was not even in national office carries much weight or deems him adequately prepared to be president, especially, when one considers that he has since said that he didn't know how he would have voted had he been in the Senate (this little detail is never alluded to by his supporters).
As for Bill Clinton race baiting, I think that has been a Rovian construction of the Obama campaign planted in the minds of people to contain Bill Clinton...smear him, destroy his effectiveness in campaigning for Hillary. It was destructive to the party because it was divisive. If nothing else has set me against Obama it has been this one vicious little campaign tactic.