2) Double standards. Clinton cries and she gets a bump. What the hell is that? If Obama cried, he'd be the laughing stock of the country. And how is it that she can cry one day, and then claim she's tough and can be the commander and chief on the next day? Am I the only one who thinks that a sobbing head-of-state doesn't exactly send the right message to Kim Jong Il and friends? Once again, it's time to cowboy up and act like a presidential candidate.
3) AND MOST IMPORTANTLY! Much like Bush, Clinton is also endorsing McCain. Has she lost her damn mind? She's engaged in a love-fest with the GOP and attacking the front-runner of her own party?!?
"I think it's imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold," the New York senator told reporters crowded into an infant's bedroom-sized hotel conference room in Washington.
"I believe that I've done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you'll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy," she said.
Calling McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee a good friend and a "distinguished man with a great history of service to our country," Clinton said, "Both of us will be on that stage having crossed that threshold. That is a critical criterion for the next Democratic nominee to deal with."
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What really gets me most is all the garbage she spews about how you can't be President based on speeches alone. It's true, to an extent... but really, being President is all about action through speeches. Your speaking has to inspire the confidence of the American people to get us to support your legislation. Your speeches have to unite the Senate to back your legislation and pass it through. Your speeches have to make an impression on the world, preferably a positive one, and have to stand as the one and only voice many world citizens associate with America.
I can see Obama uniting the country, and uniting the split Congress. I can see Obama making positive impressions on the world. I can see people's faith in the American dream being restored by Obama's gift of rhetoric. Hell, my own shattered faith has been limping back to life, thanks in large part to the words and vision of Obama. I know that words are just words, but in order to take any of the actions Clinton seems to think are synonomous with Presidency, you have to be able to sell your vision so that the checks and balances will tip in your favor. I don't see that happening with Clinton; I don't think the GOP will allow her to lift a finger.
She may have more experience, but experience doesn't do a damned thing if your Congress doesn't give you the power to exercise it.
Bleh. Anyways.
I mean she slept next to Bill Clinton - and in the first year of his administration she was an active player. But after the debacle of the '93 healthcare bill and the '94 GOP takeover she was entirely sidelined; from that point forward she didn't play a major role in the West Wing.
heh. in so many ways.
On the other hand - I could only wish. Strom was a crazy old racist fucker, but he was pretty entertaining.
It does remind me of that scene in Arrested Development though - when Lindsay was trying to cry after Michael did something nice for her. "You're going to hurt something..." >:)
As for praising McCain - yeah, that's total crap. This is a hard hitting primary campaign, and it's just going to get worse. But you do not give the GOP nominee soundbites against the guy who has better than even odds of being the Democratic nominee. Hillary Clinton claims that she's got experience, but judgement is what really matters - and in this campaign (as in many other areas over her career) she's demonstrating a shocking lack thereof.
re: McCain. This is McGovern all over again. I said it would be quite a while ago, and sure enough once again the fresh face who threatens the establishment is getting undercut by his own party in ways that will really damage him in the general election.
I'll tell you this much, I will ALWAYS vote with my wallet against anyone who challenges HRC. If she goes back to the senate, any leading primary challenger gets my vote. If she goes to the general election here... my money is going elsewhere. At this point I think Kerouac would make a better leader than she would.