It is not hate that drives us from HRC it is fear

[Perky]

I for one have had enough of lying "blipping" and intellectually lazy presidents.

This candidate has claimed that she did her due diligence on the IWR, but admits she never read the intelligence which allowed others to draw a difference conclusion; relying instead on the words of Condi Rice and George Tenet. Documents which others found ambiguous if not deceptive.


This candidate, who claims to be "Ready on Day one to be commander in chief, bases largely on her foreign policy credentials, including her now well chronicled trip to Bosnia and her less chronicled "role" in the Peace Process in Northern Ireland: A role she claims that has been debunked by actual diplomats. A role she continues to claim despite her having no security clearance.


This Candidate who claims a vast record of legislation but who in 8 years in the Senate has only gotten two significant pieces of legislation signed; A woman who claims among her accomplishment the SCHIP program, even while due to budget constraints, her husband, the president, opposed and according to those who back the initial legislation she had no role in.

This Candidate who claims to have advocated against NAFTA, Even though her husband's administration led substantial efforts to get it past and she worked for it passage.

This Candidate, who nearly singlehandedly and certainly ham-handedly set substantial healthcare reform back 15 years.

This Candidate, behind in every plausible measure in her pursuit of our party's nomination, claims it was a merely a misstatement when she said she and by extension her daughter were shot at and dares to call it a Minor Blip.

I thought the American People wanted a change from the last two terms. Her arrogance and condescension, her relentless pursuit of power with out regard to the party or the truth ought to give all true democrats great pause if not on their own merits, then certainly on their strange pattern resemblance to the current president.


If you are a Democrat you must begin to think of your party and your country as more important than your candidate. I appreciate the steadfastness and I applaud loyalty of her supporters. But enough is enough. If she is unwilling to abandon her bid at the end of the primary season, then the party must abandon her.

There is nothing in this candidate's record that suggest she will be a great president. In fact there is much that augers against it.Not because she is incapable but because her lies, her arrogance, her stubborn refusal to admit error in her judgements in affairs of state or politics will lead to "100 more years in Iraq".

It is not hate that drives us from HRC it is fear of what portends if she is somehow nominated. let alone elected.

[K Gardner]

1. Yes. K&R

[Perky]

3. Thank you.

[cliffordu]

2. YEP. K and R!!

:kick:

[Perky]

4. Thank you

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Nice essay

kick and recommended

[VinnieF]

6. And yet her supporters value the lies.

Her Royal Clintonness can do no wrong according to most of the Hillarites on this board.

[Perky]

8. They have been somwhat reserved in defending her on this

It has mostly been attempts at redirection back to Wright.

[rucky]

7. For me, it's a trust issue.

I think they're both doing what they think they have to do to win. That may not breed a trusting relationship right there, but this is the game of politics, so it's understandable. What's really telling is their differences in what it is they think they need to do to win, and within those actions, the signals they send to the base on how they'd really govern.

While I think both of them would probably govern further to the left than how they're campaigning, Obama has sent signals of bottom-up leadership that respects the will of the people. Hillary is more of a top-down leader, and given the executive powers she'd be inheriting as president (thanks, Bush), the trust issue plays into this. We need to reverse the powers of the executive gained under Bush's bogus war, and I frankly don't see that happening under Hillary.

[Perky]

11. precisely

[UALRBSofL]

9. After hearing about Obama's close ties to Wright, Meeks, et al

It is fear that people are distancing themselves from him and have reconsidered voting for him.

[Perky]

10. Not in North Carolina...Not in Pennsylvania.... Read a poll a day it will help keep you sober.