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why i don't want clinton to win
i really do not want hillary clinton to win the democratic party nomination. my reason is not because of her stated positions on any one or all of the issues. her positions are carefully designed to appeal to the center left of the country and are not completely horrible. however i think that she is 1) very likely to lose the race in november and 2) will be a terrible president if elected.
1) it looks as though the republicans will nominate john mccain and even though he is kind of a crazy old coot, i think he will beat clinton. why? because she will not win a single republican vote – he is not the favorite of republicans, but there is no way that they would want to see him lose to hillary, she is frankly loathed by the republican faithful – men and women. furthermore she comes across as a panderer, willing to vote to invade a country, then be opposed to the invasion, or whatever else seems to be the mood of the nation at the time. she has to win over independent voters and i think that they are particularly put off by panderers, because party loyalists can live with some pandering if it leads to a party victory. independents see this type of voting record as a lack of leadership. mccain will do very well with independents because he is anything but a panderer. as much as this is a "democratic year" i could see democrats sweeping everything, but the whitehouse if it is a mccain-clinton race.
2) i think that hillary and bill clinton are very different people, but the one way in which they are similar is that they are so driven by personal power that they are willing to do almost anything to achieve it. bill clinton was willing to sacrifice the ideals of the democratic party by turning the national party platform into lite-republicanism and make the democrats the party of big business so that he could get elected president. then when he won the presidency, he decided that having the democrats lose the senate and house was worth it because it helped him win the 1996 election and hold on to the presidency. in his second term he pretty much handed the presidency to the republicans because he deemed his needs more important than those of the nation. hillary is as careful as bill is reckless, but is utterly incapable of introspection and will do and say anything that furthers her march to the whitehouse. i would expect her first term to be a lovefest with big business lobbyists designed to build her campaign coffers for the 2012 election. i think that the most telling debate moment in nevada was when she was asked what her greatest strength and her greatest weakness is in regards to being president. strength? "i have spent the last 35 years of my life working for the children, for the blah blah blah….." the same old meaningless campaign crap, not one word that would make us think that she could lead and inspire people. her greatest weakness? she completely bypassed the question and attacked barack obama's answer and accused him of being exactly like george bush. funny because her response showed her to be, like bush, incapable of introspection and self criticism.
i keep hearing these comments in the press about how people voting in the democratic primaries are happy with all the candidates. don't count me in that group. i think obama will be an inspirational and transformative leader. i could live with john "this reminds be of billy bob williams an unemployed one-legged auto worker who i met in a homeless shelter in detroit…" edwards, but i have to tell you that i'd have to don a gas mask and haz-mat suit to vote for hillary clinton and then take a really long shower. hoping to avoid that fate, i will be caucusing my heart out for barack obama on february 9th
nic rossouw
i really do not want hillary clinton to win the democratic party nomination. my reason is not because of her stated positions on any one or all of the issues. her positions are carefully designed to appeal to the center left of the country and are not completely horrible. however i think that she is 1) very likely to lose the race in november and 2) will be a terrible president if elected.
1) it looks as though the republicans will nominate john mccain and even though he is kind of a crazy old coot, i think he will beat clinton. why? because she will not win a single republican vote – he is not the favorite of republicans, but there is no way that they would want to see him lose to hillary, she is frankly loathed by the republican faithful – men and women. furthermore she comes across as a panderer, willing to vote to invade a country, then be opposed to the invasion, or whatever else seems to be the mood of the nation at the time. she has to win over independent voters and i think that they are particularly put off by panderers, because party loyalists can live with some pandering if it leads to a party victory. independents see this type of voting record as a lack of leadership. mccain will do very well with independents because he is anything but a panderer. as much as this is a "democratic year" i could see democrats sweeping everything, but the whitehouse if it is a mccain-clinton race.
2) i think that hillary and bill clinton are very different people, but the one way in which they are similar is that they are so driven by personal power that they are willing to do almost anything to achieve it. bill clinton was willing to sacrifice the ideals of the democratic party by turning the national party platform into lite-republicanism and make the democrats the party of big business so that he could get elected president. then when he won the presidency, he decided that having the democrats lose the senate and house was worth it because it helped him win the 1996 election and hold on to the presidency. in his second term he pretty much handed the presidency to the republicans because he deemed his needs more important than those of the nation. hillary is as careful as bill is reckless, but is utterly incapable of introspection and will do and say anything that furthers her march to the whitehouse. i would expect her first term to be a lovefest with big business lobbyists designed to build her campaign coffers for the 2012 election. i think that the most telling debate moment in nevada was when she was asked what her greatest strength and her greatest weakness is in regards to being president. strength? "i have spent the last 35 years of my life working for the children, for the blah blah blah….." the same old meaningless campaign crap, not one word that would make us think that she could lead and inspire people. her greatest weakness? she completely bypassed the question and attacked barack obama's answer and accused him of being exactly like george bush. funny because her response showed her to be, like bush, incapable of introspection and self criticism.
i keep hearing these comments in the press about how people voting in the democratic primaries are happy with all the candidates. don't count me in that group. i think obama will be an inspirational and transformative leader. i could live with john "this reminds be of billy bob williams an unemployed one-legged auto worker who i met in a homeless shelter in detroit…" edwards, but i have to tell you that i'd have to don a gas mask and haz-mat suit to vote for hillary clinton and then take a really long shower. hoping to avoid that fate, i will be caucusing my heart out for barack obama on february 9th
nic rossouw
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