Hillary: Buh-Bye Dear
Trudy W. Schuett
I can’t imagine why any intelligent person would want to elect someone who has only “been around” running government to be our President. As Senator, it looks like she only used the office as a placeholder until something better came along.
Hey, I was born and raised in a garage. My husband teaches Marines how to fix their cars. I’ve “been around” auto tech for 56 years. Does this qualify me to be the Fleet Manager for UPS?
No way.
Does anybody else remember how she tried to steal 9/11 relief funds to force women into jobs they didn’t want in the first place?
Or the silly books she’s written? (As a writer, I have to wonder whether she wrote them herself or hired a ghost.)
This is not a gender thing; there are many well-qualified female candidates I’d happily support. There are women in the House, women in the Senate, and women as Governors of many states. When and if one of those honest, experienced individuals run, I will certainly consider them.
Hillary’s just a groupie wanting to play lead guitar. American voters seem to know that.
maybe you don't know because you don't live in NY, but Hillary has been an excellent senator, IMHO. It was, at the very least, not treated like a "placeholder" position.
And I'm surprised you'd forget "Hillarycare." Wasn't the whole problem with Hillary in the 90s that she was too involved with presidential policy? A veritable co-president, as it were? Either all the co-president bloviating in the 90s was wrong, or all of the can't-use-first-wife-experience bloviating now is, and you really have to pick one or the other.
Further, your original analogy makes no sense, since teaching someone how to fix a car doesn't even qualify your husband to be the fleet manager for UPS. They are totally different skill-sets. But you might well ask if your husband teaches Marines how to fix cars, does that qualify you to do the same job? That's really the analogy I think you were going for anyway, since Bill was president, after all. In many cases I think you'd have a point. But if you helped your husband teach marines how to fix cars for, say, 8 years, and then had a related job in the auto technician industry for a further 8, are you still unqualified?
Also, the standard is not perfection it is the alternative.
Seems to me that Hillary has significanlty more experience than a guy who was a state senator until 2004.
No matter what, Hill is still scary, IHMO.
experiment #1
i tell 2 jokes.
1 hillary complained to the dnc again - she argues the primary process is inherently unfair because february is black history month and there isn't any white bitch month.
2 new campaign slogan: hillary 08: she ain't no bitch, nigga
questions:
which is teh funnier?
which should not be told?
i gotta delta for yuo.
He had a very interesting post called 100 degrees F.
I actually never commented on the post, but I had an experience in a single day in which there was a 100 degree difference in temperatures from the time I left Pituffik, Greenland until I reached Maguire AFB, New Jersey some years ago.
Anyhow, I hope you are getting along very well from your surgery. Pain is real, and sometimes those that haven't had the surgery don't know how real. Trust me, I know how real it is.
Your comment was humorous and I'm sure aziz is tolerant enough to enjoy.
ok signing off, very tired. happy v day to all
you could tell either one, but they're both pretty tepid.
Hang in there, dude.
The link says tomorrow in Thule will be like 32 below zero with a windchill of 46 below.
So much for Algore.
So why isn't global warmin' in these primaries ?
Respectfully: no. I'm no fan of Senator Clinton, but I would need links for that. It sounds suspiciously like finding the most negative spin imaginable to stick on plain old fashioned pork. Not that I'm a fan of Congressional pork, but this sounds like an over-the-top description.
Silly books are pretty much the norm for politicians these days. It gives them a quasi-legit funding source and a PR boost as well. Senator Clinton's books are average or better for the genre. And if she had a ghost writer (I'm all but certain President Clinton did for his books, but I'm not so sure about her), that again makes her only typical: few politicians actually write their own books, at least in total.
curious, not a NYer, what is the yard stick that says Hill was a good senator, and on what work was her "grade" based?
Please do not include platitudes like "gets along well with others."
thanks
well I will admit to bias on the point. But Hillary has been effective in helping to secure funds to help spur upstate economies by playing to its strengths. For example, Rochester (where I live) is one of the hubs of national optics/photonics research, and she has been instrumental in getting money for developing a nanophotonics center here as well as money for other optics projects.
This might get into "plays well with others" territory, but hear me out. Hillary, from my experience, is someone who is deeply invested in the needs of her constituents and therefore makes a good public advocate. My staunchly republican great aunt is a real estate broker in the NYC/downstate area. Real estate agents are, as you might expect, more or less uniformly republican. A high level Bush official (possibly Card but honestly just a stab) and Hillary were both slated to speak at a real estate conference my aunt attended. To preface, this was back in 2003 when Bush support was at its strongest among the base. She told me that Bush's guy came out to thunderous applause and then gave a speech that had nothing to do with real estate and bored everyone to tears. Clinton came on afterwards essentially to boos, and left to a standing O after delivering a high-level, interesting, and motivating speech about the challenges facing the NY real estate market and her thoughts and plans on the issues. IANA{Realtor} but the story I think illustrates the point that Clinton was, at the very least, not coasting towards the presidency but actively involved with her constituents and in fulfilling her role as a senator.
And if Pres, I suppose by extension someone who gets a lot of pork into everywhere? A classical "tax and spend" dem?
to my mind, pork is getting money into your area just to bring in the money. the "bridge to nowhere" type projects. as a representative, i believe it is your responsibility to advocate for your constituents' behalf to make federal dollars available to where they are going to do the most good. It's a fact that if the government is going to fund nanophotonics research, the money should go to Rochester. But it takes Hillary, as an effective senator, to stand up for Rochesterians and say "this is where we should be sending this money that we've allocated to this goal and this is why."
I mean if you think the government shouldn't be spending money on funding science or helping spur economic growth then I don't think Hillary ever was or ever will be your girl. Maybe Ron Paul?
I don't appreciate the fact that I paid for the NY facility without my input or approval. I'm OK (actually enthusiatic since I work at a research center) with nationally funded research, but the research should support national priorities and the projects should go to the organizations who can most effectively (and cost effectively) get results. The highway system was built to support the military, not to inject money into the States. The Public Works Project was designed to recover from the great depression, not build infrastructure. The mix of politics in research is morally bankrupt and counterproductive.
The Fed Gov DOES NOT produce anything that makes money; any money they get comes from me and us. To tke money from us and give it someone else for political reasons is inappropriate.
If NY wanted to do it with NY funds, that's another story).
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.