Letters to the Editor
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To johncp
Here are just three reasons why I don't like Clinton -- with specific explanations.
SHE IS DISHONEST:
Clinton said she would pay for her retirement plan by freezing Bush's estate tax cut in the year that has the second lowest rate -- 2009 (taxes get lower for the rich each year and hit the lowest in 2010, and it 2011 goes back to pre-Bush levels). So instead of "paying" for anything, her proposal would lose the treasury over $400 billion in the first 10 years after 2011 -- money that would go to the richest in our society. She thinks we won't notice she is lying. Check this out, it's all on the record.
SHE IS CORPORATE:
Both her retirement plan and her healthcare plan would hand a small amount of taxpayer money over to people who want to save or get healthcare, and then those people would have to buy private insurance or invest with private firms. The insurance private companies would offer for some small tax rebate, and the investment opportunities for those who save the max -- $1,000 -- would do more to subsidize these industries than help those in whose name she claims to be proposing these things. On healthcare, the US already spends way more than nations with universal government insurance; this plan increases total spending and still leaves us with a patchwork private system that anyone with crappy insurance knows is no answer.
SHE IS DANGEROUS:
Everyone knows she gave Bush the right to start a war that Bush was dead set on starting. I knew that Bush wanted war -- not a stick -- from just reading publicly available information (as did a good number of elected officials who saw whatever "evidence" that Iraq was dangerous). Then she designated Iran's guard a terrorist organization and then said the reason was to get a stick -- not that they WERE terrorist. So like Bush, she sees the "terrorist" label as a weapon, not meaningful designation. This is particularly evil given that she isn't exactly on the forefront of Bush's effort to use this label to deny rights to individuals.
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Correction and addition
I meant to say Clinton, who uses the terrorist label as a stick rather than a accurate designation, is not at the forefront in THE FIGHT AGAINST Bush's use of this label to take away rights.
And as far as the establishment media attacking her, is this a joke? The only story on Edwards for months was his haircut, while there were endless stories about how Clinton was running away with it -- indeed, many mainstream stories started looking at the general election back in early fall, sending the message that the primary was over. I'd also add that the reason she led from the beginning is because she had the highest name recognition (polls showed most of the public as recently as August, couldn't name any other Democratic candidate. Leading at the beginning means almost nothing.
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Most electable Democrat?
Who is the most electable Democrat should be a moot question.
After all the abuse, the lies, the performance of the Bush administration, ANY Democrat should be the most electable.
Anyone who votes for this gang of fascists deserves what they get. The problem with that is everyone has to suffer as we and the rest of the world have suffered over the past few years.
Tune is running out.
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Somebody please tell me the difference between Hillary and the Republicans.
OK, I know when she speaks, you can't pin her on anything, even something as innocuous as "Yankees or Mets" so we'll have to judge her views based on her voting record.
-Hillary voted for the Iraq War.
-Hillary voted for the Patriot Act.
-Hillary voted for No Child Left Behind.
-Hillary co-sponsored the flag-burning amendment.
In light of this, what's the real difference between her and Rudy? What difference does it make which one wins?
This is one of the reasons I will stay at home if Hillary gets the nomination. I have others, but I won't bore you with my assessment of how phony or shrill she sounds when she opens her mouth.
Of course this must mean I'm a Republican plant, right?
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most electable
P/S.
In my letter above I meant to say ---TIME is running out not "tune", and indeed it is. However, we should tune these erstwhile "leaders" out.
We have more homeless, more mortgages foreclosed, more hungry, more children and elders and middle class without health care....oh, one could go on and on...the Iraqi/Iran wars, Afghanistan still wild and wooly, bin Laden still free, contractors and corporations running the show, civilians killed indiscriminately.
How in hell could anyone vote FOR this?
If the Republicans are even considered to "govern" , we are a nation of masochists.
...among other things.
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Spin Hillbilly Spin
Democrats wake up! She's not electable. Too much baggage, too much evasion, too much division, too much pandering, too much special interest support, too much crime, too much spin, too much war, and on and on. Clinton campaign efforts to cover this up must be exposed (as in this article). Any other democratic candidate will have a chance...she doesn't.
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Polls don't make sense
This poll is simply wrong. In no other poll does Edwards hold such a lead. He's dropping steadily in New Hampshire, as the race between Hillary and Obama tightens (down to 16% in the latest AP poll). And have you seen his new commercial?! It's all about how WRONG the Democrats are. Just what the country needs. A candidate who doesn't differentiate between the two parties (After all, Al Gore was just like Bush, remember?)
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Really?
Hillary is the most electable Democrat?
Not what it says HERE:
Bill Clinton to aid Hillary's campaign
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/12/12/2007-12-12_bill_clinton_to_aid_hillarys_campaign.html?ref=nl&nltr_ct=1&nltr_id=Bill%20to%20Hillary%20Clinton's%20rescue
FTA: Alarmed by his wife's slide in the polls and disarray within her backbiting campaign, a beside-himself Bill Clinton has leaped atop the barricades and is furiously plotting a cure - or coup.
"She's in big trouble and he knows it," a top Democratic operative and Hillary Clinton booster told the Daily News.
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Should be interesting to see if she really is in trouble or if this is nothing more than political hay.