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For many years, Hillary has been a bugbear to American right wingers. Those on the leftwards end of
the spectrum found this hard to understand at the time, but now I think many are beginning to see
her in the same way. She is, as one of Obama's advisers inadvertently let slip, a "monster". She is
prepared to destroy her own party and to let the Republicans in again all in pursuit of her own
selfish ambition.
I viewed a Hillary candidacy with equanimity before. Like most, I was resigned to the fact that she
would inevitably be the democratic nominee. I thought that many of her votes and actions in the
senate were overly respectful of Bush and the demagogic positions he took. But I was prepared to
believe that, deep down, she was a better person than she appeared to be, and that the positions she
took as a senator were no more than part of a long-range carefully-coordinated presidential
campaign. In other words, I expected her to be a better president that she was a senator.
I have since become utterly disenchanted with her, however. She is an absolute disgrace. I have
never seen a candidate for either of the two major American parties behave so appallingly and so
selfishly. She and her husband have effectively endorsed McCain over Obama several times now, and
she clearly wants to do everything she can to hamstring Obama's candidacy. Her own advisers have
conceded in interviews that she now has no more than a 5% chance of winning the nomination. She
remains in the contest, as someone else observed, to take the Tonya Harding approach to the
presidential race. |
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If Hillary Clinton loses the nomination, she will not get another chance to run again in 2012. I do,
however, agree that deep down inside, Hillary may prefer to see McCain win, if she loses the
nomination to Obama, but not because she wants to damage her country, destroy her party or because
she has developed a sudden affinity to Republican politics. Hillary is simply human, like the rest
of us, and after a very bitter, acrimonious battle and an eventual loss to Obama, she may, indeed,
resent her party and, as revenge, prefer to see McCain win. In Hillary's mind, this would prove that
she was right all along, when she claimed that Obama will not be able to win over large, industrial
states with significant white working-class populations.
There is obviously no love lost between Hillary and Obama; just watch any of the debates when they
are sitting less than a meter from each other and you can sense the uncomfortable tension. The two
of them simply don't like each other. When Hillary recently 'defended' Obama by saying that he was
never a Muslim "as far as I know," this became clear as day. In contrast, Hillary seems to like
McCain as a person, so there is no surprise if she would prefer to see him in the White House. |
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You know what... I never looked at Hillary's campaign as the last chance she has... That must be
where all this sudden support is coming from like a politics Susan Lucci, all the same... That is
all i can think of when i look at Hillary is insincerity and preplanned speeches... Not just
unconvincing and preoccupied if not contrite... I do believe she supports obama though, she's
thoroughly a democrat, but i believe there are women more deserving for the title of first woman
president, which may be a trite way of looking at a person's future, but mccain's death would
certainly not be anymore guaranteed than barack's... This is a funner debate than i thought it would
be... That poor woman needs some rest |
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There are a couple of assertions that you are making that make your arguments flat out wrong.
1) That Hillary Clinton is going to lose the primaries. Now although she is behind in both pledged
delagets and total Delegetas that doesn't mean that she is completely out of the race.
2) That McCain would do a HORRIBLE job at being president of the United States.
Now Although I'm not saying that JMac would do a great job he would definitely do a better job at
dealing with the war in Iraq. Even if he isn't able to calm the ME situation down all he would have
to do is a better job than Bush and say that he has improved the situation.
Secondly you forget the fact that JMac is a pretty liberal cat which means that a lot of his
domestic policies would be a lot like a DEMS which would be what the PEOPLE want a the moment
Basically your argument is premised on the idea that Obama would serve two terms and John McCain
would probably serve only one. I think that the fact that all he has to do is be a better Pres than
bush, which my retarded pet monkey would be able to do, only serves to effectively refute all of
your arguments. |
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I disagree - but then again I am from the UK! I think that it is a true sign of democracy when there
is a genuine race for power - look at the docile UK Govt allowing Blair to pass the baton onto
Brown! I agree that in future they may wish to plan ahead for such events - it does seem that the
issue is becoming polarized around Obama's colour than his competency. Clinton has only herself to
blame if she is going to get drawn on private issues such as his alleged religious beliefs (but then
again the US agenda does seem to be disproportionately swayed by religious matters). |
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26 Mar 2008 15:04
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