Letters to the Editor
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Hillary Hack
Hillary's not diabolic. She's pedestrian. A plodder. A stone cold predictable insider. Obama may be a talented novice, but it's time to take a chance. Go over the list for the last thirty/forty years. Any standouts? Not a freakin' one. Lincoln didn't have much experience, either. And he was homely, subject to depression, and had a maniac for a wife. Turned out to be the best President we ever had. I'm not saying Obama is going to rise to that height, but I am saying he's worth the risk.
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Hillary's Foreign Policy experience.
Interesting that Hillary is fond of claiming to have been a key player in the formulation of Clinton Foreign Policy: 9/11 was a direct result of the Clinton Administration’s feckless responses to the numerous Al-Qaida provocations and terrorist assaults against our national interests; as well as, Clinton’s inexplicable temerity in refusing to take Osama bin Laden into captivity when offered several times by the Sudanese. Clinton then exercised little more than his jawbone as bin Laden trained literally thousands of terrorists in his Afghan camps. All of which, convinced bin Laden that he could strike our homeland with relative impunity. The potential for success in bin Laden’s planned assault on our homeland was significantly enhanced by the infamous Gorelick memo which the Clinton Administration promulgated to prohibit any terrorist information exchange between our FBI and CIA intelligence operatives. Further, in the Dec. 4, 1998 Presidential Daily Intelligence Brief , Clinton was advised that Bin Laden was preparing to hijack US aircraft to employ in terrorist attacks. He was apparently more interested in his pursuit of Monica to take follow-up action. A private matter? Hardly. With the KGB monitoring Clinton/Monica phone calls, Boris Yeltsin used the leverage to get Clinton to sponsor full Russian debt forgiveness by the World Bank. Yes, BLACKMAIL that the American taxpayers paid for dearly. However, history will record the most heinous assault on America's national security interests by a U.S. president as Clinton's transfer of our most advanced missile guidance technology to the CHICOM for a few campaign shekels. Does any rational person really want to return the Clinton cabal/scandals to the White House?
Greg Neubeck
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Experience? Pfffffft! It's judgment that counts
Let's cut the crap about "experience" and "qualifications to be president." The fact is, nobody but an incumbent president has the necessary "experience." Whatever you did before being elected president doesn't count for much. There really isn't very much that can prepare you for the pressure and the responsibility of the presidency.
We elect people to the presidency because we think they have the potential to do a good job and lead the country.
Barack Obama has about the same "experience" that Jack Kennedy did when he ran for president. Hillary's experience as a senator isn't bad, but she should stop trying to claim she's got 35 years of experience. Most of that time was spent doing fluff assignments as first lady (of Arkansas and the U.S.). The only time she attempted anything substantive as first lady (her abortive health care plan), she screwed it up big time.
I think Obama is correct when he says it's not experience that matters; it's judgment. Go back and look at the judgment Obama and Clinton exhibited when it came time to authorize George Bush's Iraq misadventure.
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Shrill? You want SHRILL?
Speaking of Shrill...
Is ANYONE more shrill than this cunt, Camille Paglia?
--Bertie Wooster
Well, Hillary's pretty shrill these days. Her basic stump speech is more of a harangue than a speech. She reminds me a lot of my mom, telling me to eat my vegetables, because they're good for me.
Vote for me, you simple-minded clucks, because it's GOOD for you.
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I don't know about Hillary's white house "experience..."
But she sure could serve up one heck of a cup of coffee in the west wing back in the old days. I prefered Hillary's decaffinated personally, it's a little less bitter and edgy, although not by much.
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please ignore me
Everyday I either have a breakdown or anxiety attack because I have a hard time dealing with myself, as a woman...or young lady...or miss. whateverthehellyouwanthertobe.
It all comes from my anger and hatered of being the big f-word,(because in just saying it I could be marked a whining feminist)
And maybe I'm just a naive 19 year old, but women are thrown into the fires and sneered at for winging around our past adversities. Usually (like a room full jews vs. mr. blond hair blue eyes), it follows a bunch of ass-kissing and "we were so wrongs".
But it seems to be the opposite with women....like we have no reason to be pissed off.
like the hundreds of rapes a day is our choice, or the law that stated it's ok to beat your wife as long as what your using is no bigger then your thumb. Or all the young women forced to marry old farts just because they were born into a religon. Or the freedom of choice everyone was given from day one of our precious country was not applied to the minorites...oh, yeah...and that extra group called female.
We fought for our rights....whoop-dee fricken doo!!! isn't that right guys.
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You are useless
Paglia, your articles are useless.
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Seeing through Spin City
David Axelrod has done an excellent spin job for Barack and against Hillary. If running a successful campaign, and spinnability - qualify you to be president, then David Axelrod is there. He spins fast - but I guess that's what axels do best anyway.
But they have been so incredibly hypocritical, so craftily two-faced, that I have so much less respect and more distaste for their entire campaign. I feel like Hillary's campaign, even though not as crafted - has at least been much more honest - and less hypocritical, and manipulative.
For me, it's all about wanting who's most qualified. And the debates hold the key. Who is most knowledgeable, who knows the issues inside and out, who can think fastest on their feet? It was always Hillary. Barack got a little better, but he's just not as good when he doesn't have a written speech, or a pre-formed argument.
I would like to see Barack run in a future election - I would like to see him get his chance when he is even more qualified. But it is mainly for that reason that I don't think he could win in a general against the Republicans. He just doesn't have enough proof to back up what he says. At such a crisis time for our country, the swing voters who make the difference in a general election will want more proof. They won't want to take a chance on such an unknown candidate. The Republicans will put a lot of doubts in people's minds.
As a Democrat, Mondale was 20 percentage points ahead of Bush Sr. for months, and he lost badly. Republican campaign strategists are very good at what they do. Frankly they've done it all to Hillary before. They can try it all again, but I don't think they can do any more damage. I even think there are some who won't admit it, but who secretly want Hillary to come in and with the knowledge of the socio-economic success of the first Clinton administration - help do what the first Clinton admininstration did - that is get us out of recession and deficit and into record surpluses and record prosperity. And yes Hillary was there - they were both there and she has first-hand knowledge and experience of what it took. They did so much to help the economy. They really learned and excelled in domestic policy, and that's why we need their expertise. I want the most efficient administration possible.
And Hillary is the one with the most knowledge to effetuate that change.