Why I Am Even MORE Hugely Disappointed in Hillary
This may become a part of an ongoing series here, since I already posted something about it, but it's just getting worse and worse and I can't let it slide...
Hillary Clinton had a really good shot at becoming President of the United States. She deserves props for exciting people into becoming more involved with politics, and I thought for a while that she would have been a great choice if she were nominated for the Democratic ticket.
My opinion has drastically changed. Yes, I am certain many Clinton supporters will assume that my opinion is based on the fact that I openly support Barack Obama. However, in the early days after John Edwards dropped from the race, I was not so set against her, as much as I felt my views just happened to align more with Obama.
But her campaign has turned her into a Bush administration Republican. What once could have been seen as plucky determination has now turned into bullying stubbornness. Her campaign isn't paying up on her bills, she lags further and further behind Obama every primary and caucus that comes to pass, she has praised John McCain over a fellow candidate (wha??), she made up a harrowing tale of flying into Bosnia under sniper fire that turned out to be 100% false (which she repeated at least 4 times until someone publicly called her on it), and had the fucking brass ones to suggest that frontrunner Obama take the back seat in a combined Clinton/Obama ticket (let me remind everyone that she also suggested that Obama had not crossed some imaginary "presidential threshold" and therefor shouldn't be the presidential nominee, but he was suddenly good enough for the VP position, which is the NEXT IN LINE to the presidency... makes ZERO FUCKING SENSE).
Her donors (many of whom are close enough to her to have stayed in the Lincoln bedroom during Bill Clinton's presidency, link also shows half of them also donated to Joe Lieberman's senate campaign) have threatened Nancy Pelosi for suggesting that superdelegates vote along the lines of pledged delegates. Oh, and Clinton stands by that letter.
She has spread falsehoods about Obama's views on a woman's right choose, spread falsehoods about where his money has come from, she even used an untrue anecdote about her name to endear herself to others.
And, of course, she created a campaign ad designed to instill fear.
So she wants to drag this out... to what end? If she can't threaten or cajole enough people to swing in her direction, will she attempt to run as a third party candidate? Will she been 2008's Nader? Would try to spoil the race just to have a quicker, easier shot at the seat in 2012?
No my friends, she makes me unhappy. She represents what I want to change. She is acting like George W. Bush, and I don't like it one friggin' bit.
UPDATE: I just found out that Clinton surrogate Gov. Ed Rendell is praising FOX news as the most fair. Sorry, you just totally lost me right there.
Hillary Clinton had a really good shot at becoming President of the United States. She deserves props for exciting people into becoming more involved with politics, and I thought for a while that she would have been a great choice if she were nominated for the Democratic ticket.
My opinion has drastically changed. Yes, I am certain many Clinton supporters will assume that my opinion is based on the fact that I openly support Barack Obama. However, in the early days after John Edwards dropped from the race, I was not so set against her, as much as I felt my views just happened to align more with Obama.
But her campaign has turned her into a Bush administration Republican. What once could have been seen as plucky determination has now turned into bullying stubbornness. Her campaign isn't paying up on her bills, she lags further and further behind Obama every primary and caucus that comes to pass, she has praised John McCain over a fellow candidate (wha??), she made up a harrowing tale of flying into Bosnia under sniper fire that turned out to be 100% false (which she repeated at least 4 times until someone publicly called her on it), and had the fucking brass ones to suggest that frontrunner Obama take the back seat in a combined Clinton/Obama ticket (let me remind everyone that she also suggested that Obama had not crossed some imaginary "presidential threshold" and therefor shouldn't be the presidential nominee, but he was suddenly good enough for the VP position, which is the NEXT IN LINE to the presidency... makes ZERO FUCKING SENSE).
Her donors (many of whom are close enough to her to have stayed in the Lincoln bedroom during Bill Clinton's presidency, link also shows half of them also donated to Joe Lieberman's senate campaign) have threatened Nancy Pelosi for suggesting that superdelegates vote along the lines of pledged delegates. Oh, and Clinton stands by that letter.
She has spread falsehoods about Obama's views on a woman's right choose, spread falsehoods about where his money has come from, she even used an untrue anecdote about her name to endear herself to others.
And, of course, she created a campaign ad designed to instill fear.
So she wants to drag this out... to what end? If she can't threaten or cajole enough people to swing in her direction, will she attempt to run as a third party candidate? Will she been 2008's Nader? Would try to spoil the race just to have a quicker, easier shot at the seat in 2012?
No my friends, she makes me unhappy. She represents what I want to change. She is acting like George W. Bush, and I don't like it one friggin' bit.
UPDATE: I just found out that Clinton surrogate Gov. Ed Rendell is praising FOX news as the most fair. Sorry, you just totally lost me right there.
by MG at 8:36 AM
2 Comments:
Perhaps Rendel praised FOX News b/c they are the only ones that have clinton beating obama.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/democratic_presidential_nomination-191.html
(sorry, i never learned how to turn those into hyperlinks.)
Agree with you completely - - and once again Obama rises above the frey by saying she has every right to run as long as she wants to because that's what our democratic system is all about.
Obama is too cool to come down to Clinton's level - on everything!
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