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Senator Clinton; I got your back!
Many folks have decided on their vote for today, Super Tuesday, as a chance to make history. And indeed we will. What I am looking for in a candidate is this:
I want a president who will be able to withstand the Right Wing Hate Machine (RWHM).
I want a president will read the memos.
I want a president who is a policy wonk who makes decisions not based on their gut but based on research and close advice.
I want a president who has already made difficult decisions and who can withstand the flak for them
I want a president who understands that hope is great but grasping the reality of politics in America is greater
My candidate is Hillary Clinton. I dont care who the RWHM wants to run, I am going to vote for the most qualified candidate. And Senator Clinton; when the hate machine fires up its engines, dont worry, because I got your back. The American people will have your back. Because we are tired of it and we wont stand by this time.
Comments (7)
1. Which memos are you referring to..the Iraq NIE?
2. Paging Jimmy Carter...Paging Jimmy Carter
3. Legislators rarely have to make hard decisions, but is there really any hard decision HC had to make? And what was hard about it?IS the kind of decison that we might think of as morally courageous but electorally jeopardizing? Just wondering.
4. A grasp of the reality of politics. How depressing. If only FDR had Lyndon JOhnson's superpowers. Hell if only Bill Clinton had Lyndon Johnson's superpowers ion 1992-1994 when he also had a democratic Congress.
5. Looks like the RWHM is busy trying to destroy their own candidate first. All democrats will have to wait in line.
"The only thing you have to fear is fear itself"
Good luck.
February 5, 2008 2:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
1. Yes and the PDB of August 6th and many others that Bush has admitted he hasnt read.
2. ?
3. Specifically the Iraq war vote. Something Senator Obama didnt have to make as he was still in Illinois
4. Sadly yes, it is depressing. Life would be wonderful if the Republicans will come to the table and join hands with us for a better America. But if you think they are going to change their tactics after 16 years, I have a bridge to sell you.
5. Yes, it is nice to see them turn on their own.
February 5, 2008 2:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
But the most difficult decision she's had to make so far, the vote on Iraq, she got wrong.
There may be characteristics of Clinton that would make her a good President, but most of the ones outlined above don't seem to be them.
February 5, 2008 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think she got the authorization to use force vote wrong. That's the same authorization any Commander In Chief is going to seek and get in similar circumstances. Why should we have played chicken with a two-bit dictator like Saddam Hussein who pretended to have weapons of mass destruction to deter Iran, who didn't mind having his people bombed every now and then, and who could easily be taken down by our Military? The mistake was hanging around, trying to occupy Iraq and create a neo-con Pax Americana in the Middle East. Senator Clinton never bought into the occupation. She's a Nationalist, but too smart to get involved in a guerrilla or civil war. Her model is Kosovo and the bombing of Iraq that forced them to let the inspectors back in.
February 5, 2008 5:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think she got the authorization to use force vote wrong
No, I think it was a pretty bad idea all around. Plenty of people thought so.
All us hippies.
She got it wrong.
Opinion only...agree to disagree and all. The AUMF debate is pretty old at this point.
February 5, 2008 5:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry. Not all of us hippies. The AUMF debate will get real hot again as soon as McCain lays into Obama, who he will be glad to characterize as a hippy, for being weak on defense. IMHO, this is going to come down to Nationalism v. Internationalism again. Obama's internationalist number is too much too soon, just as Kerry's was.
February 5, 2008 5:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't really see the "weak on terrorists" schtick working on either Clinton or Obama.
Kind of hard for the people who f-ed everything up to make the case that their ideas are right.
I don't see the nationalism vs. internationalism thing, either. It's much simpler than that -- the war was a really bad idea, and Obama can make that case better than Clinton. Or McCain.
You might be clinging to the believe that it was a good idea, but poorly executed, but most people disagree.
February 5, 2008 10:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
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