I don't really want Hillary to be our next president, But

[pscot]

somebody else needs to step up, and so far it hasn't happened.

I like Edwards, but I don't think he has the rolodex needed to form a government. And he hasn't convinced me that he has the chops to run the country.

I really wanted Obama to show me something, but his campaign has been the political equivalent of the rope-a-dope; not a successful strategy for a challenger who's trying to make up ground. The fact that he abstained from two important Senate votes today, even though he was there (according to Tweety) is disappointing.

I give Biden full props for getting his Iraq partition amendment through the most contentious Senate since the Civil Rights era. It's the first new idea to surface in that august body since the war began. Biden is a little loopy, but as we've learned , that's no bar to the pResidency. His problem is anonimity. Only 6%* of Americans know who he is.

Richardson seems to be rising gradually in the polls,(10%*) but he's still largely unknown, and I have no clue what a Richardson administration would look like.

That brings us back to Hillary. She was dead wrong on the issue that matters most to me, the war. She is wrong on health care. Propping up the current overpriced, inadequate system of privately administered care still leaves us trailing the rest of the developed world. She is the first choice of the DLC and corporate America, with all that that implies. And you get Bill, with his vices and his penchant for triangulation as part of the package. Powerful negatives.
On the plus side, she is a consummate pro, and she has gotten better as the campaign has gone on. She has the rolodex; she knows who to call to put together a government. And the people she calls will respond. Unfortunately they will be the ususal suspects. Semi-good government, but same old, same old. And you get a sadder but wiser Bill as part of the package; Bill repentant, Bill out to erase the memory of Monika and secure his place in the history books, Clinton redux, only without the scandals. (There's no way the right wing noise machine can replicate what they did to the Clintons the first time around.) Pretty powerful stuff.

Would I vote for Hillary if she were the nominee? Of course. But like Bartleby, I would prefer not to. I'm still hoping that Al Gore will descend from the heavens trailing clouds of glory and relieve me of the need to agonize about this shit, but that hope is fading.


*all numbers are made up by me, but somewhat reflect reality

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. I B librul, but my partner is XXX - librul

watching Hill on MSNBC, she said,
"dayamn. those eyes, that look, and that double hinged lower jaw, just like a snake. Dayamn, she's Voldemort!"

[NoPasaran]

4. Funny, my browser claims this is Democratic Underground

But it reads like the scummier parts of Free Republic.

[movonne]

2. You couldn't have said it better....

[Bitwit1234]

3. At first I didn't care which one got the nomination, Hillary, Edwards or Obama

But after being on this journal and seeing all the bashing, and flaming and slurring of Hillary by the Obama supporters, I begin to wonder, just what kind of administration would he have, comparable to bush.