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HaveRopeWillBind -> RE: Hillary cracking under pressure? (1/8/2008 12:38:09 PM)
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Well in fact she did not cry, she simply opened up emotionally for a moment. Scripted or not there were no tears rolling down her cheeks so why keep implying that there were? Watch the video again. Seems as though Obama has suddenly become the press darling and that same press wants to attack Hillary from every possible angle. I don't think she is a perfect Presidential candidate, but I do think she would do a better job overall than Obama. He keeps talking about change, but whenever he actually makes a policy statement such as his health care plan it always comes out as a "Me too!" sort of half measure that isn't as viable as the ideas expressed by other candidates. I do believe we need a lot of changes in our current political system, but I would like to be sure they are not changes for the worse or changes simply for the sake of change, which seems to be Obama's platform. Personally I do like Ron Paul, but he is never going to get on the ballot and a write-in campaign for him won't get him elected either. Given that I do think that Hillary has offered some of the best ideas for needed change that could actually be shoe-horned through Congress. Everyone is comparing Obama to Kennedy, but if you really look at the Kennedy administration he got nothing done and nearly brought us to nuclear war. Most of the social changes Kennedy is credited with were actually accomplished later by Johnson. Johnson had the dirt on just about everyone in Congress at the time so he was able to push through most of what he wanted. Add to that the fact that he claimed much of it was in Kennedy's memory and Congress gave him almost anything he wanted. Given the actual Kennedy record I don't want another Kennedy, and that is sort of what bothers me about Obama, I see him as another possible president elected on the basis of his charisma but without the political experience to actually get anything through Congress, and no diplomatic experience at all. Since much of what the next president has to deal with will be International Diplomacy Obama is one of the weakest candidates running. In that sense Hillary is the most experienced.
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