Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Why not Hillary?

Kathy is supporting Hillary. I think she thinks men are not fit to run anything, much less the country. Maybe she's right.

Hillary’s not my first choice because I stayed disappointed with Bill all the time he was running and in office. Remember when he went back to Arkansas as governor to execute the retarded guy? It seemed like, if I remember correctly, he was trying to shore up the white male vote in South Carolina. Then he gratuitously attacked some woman African American singer to work on that base some more.

After he got in office, he wiped out aid for dependent children, brought us the anti terrorism and effective death penalty act, bombed an aspirin factory in the Sudan and built a wall across from Tijuana. With friends like these….

So maybe Hillary will be better. We can always hope, but her performance so far has not been very encouraging.

Maybe she will act faster to get everybody some health care, but I am not encouraged by her first effort.

Also, I don’t trust that she won’t move to the right during the general election and her presidency and make sure we have plenty of more years of war.

The right-wingers keep promising me that both Barack and Hillary are secret socialists. I doubt that. With all of the banking and defense contractor money sloshing around, I suspect they are both what they seem to be: cautious conservatives.

So why don’t I just avoid the process? No way. Hey, I even voted when we had two frat brothers from Yale running against each other last time. Both were rich kids with apparently limited skills, but I sucked it up and voted for the one with long catsup stained face rather than the one with the drooling Hapsburg jaw.

In truth, I think this may be more of a choice than we have had in a long time. I am willing to aim low enough to vote for Barack first, and then Hillary, if need be.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

truth, I think this may be more of a choice than we have had in a long time. I am willing to aim low enough to vote for Barack first, and then Hilllary, if need be.

I concur!

Truth Seeker said...

I'm hoping to vote for both at the same time.

Such a starry-eyed dreamer, but how cool would it be to have the first woman and the first African-American sharing a ticket? I could die happy.

BobbyWC said...

To continue with the unfortunate truth about Bill. There are two anti-gay laws on the books - both were written by and signed into law by Bill Clinton.

Bill did shut down the government and set us on a path of surpluses - this is to his credit - but the boom of his yers was a myth.

Under Bill the use of equity loans on our homes and refinancing mortgages to pay off credit card debt began. People were not spending their money - they were spending borrowed money. Now they cannot pay their mortgage, car payments or credit card payments.

To get credit cards to expand credit to finance the expansion of the Clinton economy, maximum interest rates went from 18 % to 35%.

On the otherside, Obama's entire compaign is "Smile and be Happy." in a way he is promising the most, so the disappointment will be the greatest.

For now I am cheering on McCain - not because I support him, but because I believe the next president will be a one term president - and how better than a Republican. A one term Democrat could mean 12 years of Republicans and that would not be good.

StapletonAndStapleton said...

Thank you for coming.

The Merovingian said...

I do not believe that Hillary is a closet Socialist, I believe she is an open "Clintonist" and Hazard County was not a big enough back yard.

Do you think that it time that at least one of the parties adopt a single plank platform of "The most for the country for the least amount of money"?....Naaaaw!

By the way, welcome to the jungle.

M.

StapletonAndStapleton said...

Glad to be here. I still have not gotten the technical parts down yet, but they seem to be coming.