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Mass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 07:43 AM
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Ready to govern from day 1? Really? I am not that sure.
Edited on Fri Feb-29-08 07:50 AM by Mass
Yes, it concerns Hillary Clinton who has claimed from months now that she is ready to govern from day 1.

From the primary campaign, can we really believe this? She had all the advantages: name recognition, the inevitability aura, tons of money. She could have assembled a team of the best among the best and have a strategy where she would have won the race in January.

She squandered all that by not adopting a strategy that worked, losing Iowa, not winning Super Tuesday, and not having a strategy beyond that. Now, she is claiming she did not understand the rules about the Texas election and wants to contest them in a court of law.

Are you sure this is who you want as a president? Somebody who cannot plan a plan B? Somebody who is so arrogant that she cannot see that events can not go the way she wants and plan for an alternative strategy? Somebody who cannot be bothered understanding the rules?

Sorry, this is not what I want. And this latest episode in Texas convinces me that she would be a poor president.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 07:46 AM
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1. It's like groundhog day everyday around here
We just keep recycling the same stuff. Can't wait until this is over.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 07:49 AM
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2. Ready to delegitimize the nomination process from day one.
There is a lot of work to be done cleaning up Hillary's trashing of the whole process. We'd better win this year because we'll need 8 years to put this humpty dumpty situation back together again.
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 07:53 AM
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3. I'm thinking she is contesting the rules simply because
she feels it is unfavorable to her, rather narcissistic if you ask me. Rules for thee, not for me.

Doesn't matter if she can plan or not on this one.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 08:19 AM
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4. Same as it ever was. nt
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MyNameGoesHere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 08:26 AM
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5. So you prefer "Ready to bomb pakistan from day one"?
Obama has the same thinking of our current cowboy diplomat.
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Mass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 08:27 AM
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6. Not what he said, but at least if somebody was going to do that, I would like somebody able to plan
the consequences.

Apparently, Clinton never foresaw the consequences of voting for the IWR either. Not that smart.
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MyNameGoesHere Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 08:38 AM
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9. i do not want EITHER DEMOCOCRATIC candidate
threatening to unilaterally use military action in a sovereign nation. THAT is what we have now. And yes he did say he would take military action against AQ in Pakistan if they were a threat blah blah blah. More cowboy diplomacy.
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Medusa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 08:27 AM
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7. Wanda Sykes the comedian had a great line on the Tonight show
about what "Ready on Day 1" really meant: She already knows where the bathrooms are in the White House.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 08:33 AM
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8. There's NO ONE ready to govern on day 1
Despite claims to the contrary by all the candidates on both sides, unless they're the reincarnation of Grover Cleveland, there is going to be a learning curve.
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