Letters to the Editor
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Clinton's Qualifications
I asked this question a couple of times over at the boards at Slate today. No one tried to answer, so maybe someone here will take a crack at it: What is Clinton's experience? We seem to hear about it all the time, but what is it?
As far as I see it, there are several red flags when you look at Clinton's public life.
1. Health Care reform in '93. This is self-explanatory. She set back this cause by close to 2 decades because of her my-way-or-the-highway style. Has she changed since then? Doesn't seem that way judging by the way her campaign behaves.
2. Her Iraq vote. Sorry, but it was a terrible idea then and it was obvious. Almost half the Democratic senators voted against it. Why didn't she? That's pretty poor judgment in my book. Her recent needless saber rattling towards Iran suggests she hasn't learned a darn thing.
3. From 2001-2006 she was one of the preeminent faces of the Democratic party. Why did we never hear her forcefully standing up to GWB and the Republicans? This country was in dire need of fierce opposition to the ruling party. She was MIA. She only started to raise any opposition to GWB after the '06 elections when it became politically safe and convenient to do so. This doesn't seem like good leadership to me.
Can someone please give me some reason why I should ignore these 3 facts and support Clinton over Obama? If all you have is the "experience" argument, then tell me what experience she has that would recommend her?
Please, if someone tells me I swear I'll stop asking this question, but until I hear an answer that doesn't include "She's Bill Clinton's wife" I'm not buying it.