For fuck's sake, can we please stop this
We should have gone with Hillary bullshit? First of all, Hillary is quitting her job at the end of Obama's (first) term. If she can't handle Secretary of State for two terms, what makes you think she can handle POTUS for even one? Secondly, can you name one single major accomplishment she's had as Secretary of State? Seriously, she's ranked right up there with Condi Rice on the "List of U.S. Secretaries of State with the Most Accomplishments". Finally, I chose Obama because I thought if we elected Hillary it'd be, "We're gettin' the band back together", and that would mean Rahm Emmanuel, Larry Summers, Robert Rubin back in governm ... Oh, wait. Anyway, I'm still sick of the Clintons and Clintonistas, and that's not going to change, so let it go, for the love of God.
Rising Hegemon
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I think Hillary Clinton has been a great Secretary of State.
The SoS isn't supposed to make the news. It a no-news-is-good-news type of job. When the Secretary of State makes the evening news, that's a bad thing.
No Clown Shoes. That's exactly what I want from a S.o.S., and Hillary Clinton has delivered.
I say this as someone who was deeply skeptical of her pick. She's done a great job, and she's done it the right way: quietly.
I didn't vote for HRC because I thought her somewhat of a warmonger. So then Obama makes her SOS. DThen of course it turns out that SOS, Defense, CIA and DHS are all the same animal. As in Bush. Oh well.
You know why I won't support Hillary? Because she accurately identified the vast right wing conspiracy attack dogs that were going after her husband...right before kissing up to them for her run at the Presidency.
Nope. Don't need that.
Enjoy.
More to the point, anybody who thinks Hillary would have been any more liberal than Obama was not paying attention.
I thinks it's entirely plausible that Hillary would have been a stronger president than Obama.
I might even have been able to forgive her Fox ring kissing during the primaries if I'd have known what a useless excuse for a liberal Obama turned out to be.
I guess he can take a little credit for the freeing of the gays, his Lincoln moment, but he hasn't done squat about war criminals. Still too busy inventing and prosecuting pot 'criminals'.
Enjoy.
I was always for Hillary - right from the start. I accepted Obama as the nominee and voted for, what I thought was, a Democrat only to end up with Herbert Hoover. Hillary is not afraid of confrontation and is a fighter. Too bad we have someone who thinks he can "negotiate" with rabid dogs. Oh, and why should Hillary serve more than one term anyway? Are you going to weigh in on her fashion choices next? Sheesh.
don't knock quietly competent.
I agree w/ Joe from Lowell, Seen but not heard. Good job!
Give Barry a second term, he'll certainly beat their alternative, and then HRC runs in 2016. (By then a Golda Meier-like figure.)And she's got chuztpah! Or not.
It's total bullshit to dump on Clinton by claiming she could not have handled the presidency because she's not going to be sec. of state again. She didn't win the presidency and has a pretty full career behind her--people's lives change and most of us reassess our priorities accordingly. F**k anyone who derides her choice to retire from public office as a sign of weakness or incompetence. If you want to make the point that she's not good at her job then do it. But attacking a woman in her mid-60s who has worked her whole life simply because she now wants to do something a little less high pressure is a cheap shot.
I actually like Hillary Clinton, certainly more than I like her husband. I ultimately picked Obama when it came down to the two of them, in part because I thought and still think she would lose to McCain. But can someone please explain to me how Hillary being a "fighter" would make a difference in the hypothetical HRC presidency that I think would look a lot like Obama's, only with less support in the Congress for the first two years? How would HRC "fight" a Repubilcan majority in the House? Whose votes could she change? I really don't want to refight the primary, but I'm utterly fascinated by the passionate certainty of people like Michele who think some vague Idea about "fighting" would change the political reality (see Wisconsin, which of course is Obama's fault, too).
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