What Would Hillary Do (WWHD).........

[global1]

Some of my friends play this game. Basicallly - if she were the president.

[bigwillq]

1. Get us into even more wars.

If that's possible. With her, probable.

[MADem]

2. She'd probably catch a lot of the same crap Obama's getting.

Only instead of veiled racial insults, she'd be getting the "aging woman" schtick.

And she'd probably get the same amount of guff here as Obama is getting, as well.

[woolldog]

4. Difference is hillary has got a pair

....and a spine.

[Incitatus]

3. Whatever she is told to do by those who realy pull the strings. nt

[Jack Sprat]

6. Probably true, sad to say. nt

[Liquorice]

5. I think she would have been a phenomenal president. nt

[napoleon_in_rags]

7. It depends on HOW Hillary got in.

If its the alternative universe where Obama was never born, and Edwards had his scandal blow up early so everybody was behind her, I think she could be good. Every now and then Hillary Clinton, try as she might to avoid it, has moments of real emotional authenticity where the political mask falls. You don't get that with Obama, his poker face seems perfect and perpetual. But I think that sense of a real person there could actually light the way for people if she had a good plan, she could actually break through. Its really hard to trust the current crowd, even if they had a roadmap to Eden I can't see Americans all standing behind them.

[Davis_X_Machina]

8. Better. The Right Thing. Not Screw Up.

Oh, and sleep under a hill in Somerset like King Arthur and ride to the rescue when all seems lost.

There are still Jacobites toasting "The King over The Water", so I guess there'll be OP's like this for a while yet.... say 250 years.

[juajen]

9. She wouldn't stand down to anybody. She would have been

a great first female President. We lost that chance.

[Ruby the Liberal]

10. Whatever Wall Street told her to do.

Sorry, not into the DLC/Third Way Triangulation bullshit.

[hfojvt]

11. Well it's 2 a.m.

Let's call her up and ask her.

[DonCoquixote]

12. IBTL

because this brings up 2008, and any discussion of said issue gets locked.

She is like Obama where she has courage FOR CENTRIST IDEAS, and for beating down the left. She and Bill would have angered the "professional left" even more.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. There's not much difference between those two 3rd Way Neo-Libs.

Same song different singers.

[Raine]

14. Hillary is more truthful. nt

[FrenchieCat]

15. Yeah....like when she told the truth on landing on that Tarmac!

When one lies about the small things, don't pretend that this is where they stop! :eyes:

(but then the grass is always greener when folks aren't taking a constant piss on the lawn!)

[LooseWilly]

16. Exactly the same thing is my guess... Hell, look at HCR, Obama basically passed her plan.

She was the mandates and no public option plan-talker... part of why the primary voters ("there is no base") turned against her, I think.

Hell, she'd probably have appointed all the same people to the cabinet and the various executive agencies... they're all Clintonites from Bill's terms aren't they?

Kind of makes you wonder what the point of that primary in 2008 was...

[DonCoquixote]

17. Thank you

for making my point better than I could.

[Forkboy]

18. The difference between the two is negligable.

You couldn't slide a piece of paper between their policy differences, or their previous voting records. This is what makes the still ongoing animosity between the two camps so sad/funny (depending on mood, I guess). They're both eating the same dish, but trying to convince the other side how much better their dish tastes. :crazy:

[HughBeaumont]

19. SSDA.

NO difference. Hillary voted for the wars and is less of an economic progressive than her husband.

America's menu is going to suck bread mold until . . . . well, I don't know what the "until" is. I'm still waiting for the American people to figure out that their futures aren't looking all that rosy under corporate rule.

But hey, this laissez-fail is sure better than Demmycratic SOSHULISM, RIGHT?