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I have noticed how some Dems are having some doubts and fears about Senator Hillary Roddam Clinton's possible winning of the our party's presidential nomination may create some problems during the general election, in some areas of the country. I have no doubts about the prospects being there for such a "backlash".
However, I keep thinking about other candidates and their situations with the general electorate. For instance, the obvious candidate to think about would be Senator Barak Obama. He has said that he would unilaterally go into Pakistan if we had good intelligence and the Pakistani government showed no interest in doing so. Now, I myself, do not find much there to argue with, even though the Senator actually tried to say that this wasn't what he said, when looking back at the video of the comment shows otherwise. On the other hand, many in the general electorate, I believe, will have a problem with even the possibility of ANOTHER president going unilateral on the world. Also, many may have a problem with electing ANOTHER person who has very little experience in foreign matters and national government in general sitting in the Oval Office after 8 years of such just prior.
Or Senator Joe Biden with his historically sharp tongue that goes out of control at just the wrong times....kinda like the present occupant at 1600. How about Former Senator John Edwards and his $400 haircuts, his ties to trial lawyers, etc.?
My point is simple. EVERY candidate in EVERY election at ALL levels of government present their own lists of negatives and potential problems.
Senator Clinton will have whatever negatives the Republicans decide they want to accentuate, and it will be up to ALL Democrats, if she gets the nomination, to fight the smears and lies. I feel that IF she wins the nomination, she has the very best chance of fighting any "swiftboating" from the right-wing zealots, mainly because she has the best political machine since her husband was in office, and the best since LBJ before that!
But also, after 7 1/2 years of George W. Bush and Republican rule, trying to point out NEGATIVES is NOT going to be as effective a strategy for the repugs as it was before.
My BIGGEST concern is STILL a real fear that if our Democratic leadership in Congress doesn't get a necessary backbone, and stop the fascist attempt by the existing regime to put all control of every branch of government into the executive branch, along with their attempts to gut the Bill of Rights, showing them to be the power-hungry rabble that they truly are!
If we DON'T get a handle on this, by way of Congress stopping this playing of defense when you HAVE THE BALL, the IDEA of election in November of next year may very well be an exercise in futility. Our congressional leaders have LESS THAN FIFTEEN MONTHS left to avoid a consoldation of power thru fear, that more than resembles Hitler's successful attempt to do the same thing in the 1930's!
BACKLASH? There will be some of it from ANYBODY! A bloodless coup, trumps backlash everytime!!
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