Crikey, if that’s the way she looks when she sees an old friend, I’d hate to be an enemy.
Seriously, I love Hillary and I hope she wins. (But I’m still rooting for Al Gore).
The next president of the United States?
buggery.org
Better than a poke in the eye with a wet fish
So say we all. But she has really problems with photographers right now. You surely know this link?
we do *not* love Hillary
she is the very model of a modern focus group candidate
she is on record for her positions for the Patriot Act, for the war, for the death penalty and for cluster bombs, but she’s against gay marriage
still doesn’t seem to understand the war or the power the Congress in which she sits to end has to end it; only weeks ago, in a campaign visit to New Hampshire, she had the timidity (and the temerity) to say, “It’s very easy to go around and say, ‘Let’s end the war,’” and added. “If we had a Democratic president we would end the war.”
and here I’m quoting my partner Barry [bloggy.com] on a September 16 post just prior to the election last year: “Clinton has ducked fair dialogue on where she stands on the most pressing foreign policy question facing the nation. Just because she can get away with it does not make it the right thing to do. Clinton has also bobbed and weaved this year on gay rights. Activists have pressed her on her opposition to gay marriage—and come away disappointed that did not even speak out on the dignity of gay families on the Senate floor when Congress debated the ugly Marriage Protection Amendment.”
[by the way, both of our New York's senators voted for the Iraq War, when the overwhelming majority of their constituents were opposed to it (and millions of us demonstrated in the streets)]
OK, point taken. Hillary’s evil and she must be destroyed. Who does that leave? There’s the impressive but probably unelectable Barack Obama, the unimpressive and unelectable John Edwards, and the impressive, electable, but still-not-in-the-race Al Gore.
Am I missing somebody? Or something?
On the issues, Kucinich is just about perfect of course. I also will admit that Gore does sound good at the moment, although I haven’t looked too closely at most of his current positions on the big issues.
It would seem very strange indeed if after all these years I were finally able to vote for a candidate who large numbers of people might imagine actually has a chance to be elected president.
By the way, I wouldn’t call Obama or Edwards “unelectable”, but after 2000 and 2004 it would seem that I’d have to admit I know nothing about such things.