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What’s wrong with Clinton? I don’t agree with any of your choices. I think it has nothing to do with her gender at all. Her behavior is just like Bill’s which is despicable to me too.
She has perfected the dual role of playing the victim, and never blaming herself. She is completely without ability to look back on things and admit a mistake. She JUST NOW admitted regret for her Iraq vote, when countless others had. Her argument was, “If you’d have seen the classifided info that we had.” All I can say is, come on. Anyone who didn’t trust the President 100 percent knew it was all bullshit. Hillary, we all know you voted for it because it was the easiest way out and the politically expedient thing to do given the nations mood at the time. Pure and simple.
There’s that. Secondly I would say that her complete and utter denial of the significance of the other states in this contest. She’s been marginalizing the other states as we go. She just got done doing it to Texas because it’s gone Obama’s way. I can’t wait to hear what she says about Ohio, there’s no way you can marginalize that state.
I have absolutely no problem with a female commander in chief. It pisses me off that someone puts forth someone as unlikeable as Hillary and accuses me of being misogynistic if I don’t like her. Listen, I’m all for women’s equality. I’ve lived in places where equality is much higher and I think it’s paradise. But I don’t like Hillary. She has very little experience, and what experience she does have she’s fucked it up. She is a blatant liar and she only cares about herself.
The Hillary of the Clinton Administration I can feel sorry for. The Right demonized her, sure. Maybe some of it was brought on by her own doing. She had a real opportunity, at the beginning of her campaign to run her operation in the right way, and had Obama not turned out to be such a strong candidate then I’d have enthusiastically voted for her over any other primary opponent.
But she showed tremendous error in judgement by following Mark Penn’s advice after Iowa. The “Kindergarden essay” Bill Clinton in SC, Change you can Xerox, the WWE Smackdown-esque taunts over the flyers (Shame on you Barack Obama), and the Celestial Choir mocking. This is all tired bullshit that nobody wants to go back to. Americans in general have bullshit fatigue. We are so sick of the political bullshit that we’re just begging for someone to not insult our intelligence. When you have a President whose words you can categorically mistrust these days (Didn’t he get on TV today to say there would not be a recession?) someone who isn’t completely full of shit sounds refreshing. Obama is pretty damn good at that. When asked about Hillary’s tirade about the pamphlets he had a terse response saying that they were, “accurate.” He did it in a no nonsense way. Clinton isn’t Bush, but I think we all associate the Bill Clinton times as more partisan bullshit too, except from our side. What exactly did Bill Clinton achieve? NAFTA? Don’t ask don’t tell? Kosovo was good I guess, but really he wasn’t that great. He sure as hell won’t go down as a great president.
How condescending was she before Iowa though? Seriously? Anyone here remember “It’s time to pick a President?” What the hell was THAT supposed to mean? Might as well have been “Just pick me already.” When she was in the front-runner position, she never did the humble thing and hedge bets, she always said, “I WILL be the nominee.” Hillary learned the lesson that you have to be tough, and show toughness to survive in politics. The problem is that she has forgotten for what reasons she needed to get tough in the first place. Have you heard her new “get real” line? WTF is that? As if people voting for Obama are fools? Is that what we’re supposed to believe? Jesus I am so happy I didn’t vote for her ass. Each passing day Obama makes me proud.
So no, Hillary’s electoral woes are 100 percent her own. If she shares the blame with anyone it’s Bill. That’s it. Bill came into this election with a great reputation. Then he started attacking Barack Obama with questionably racist themes. His rep was completely restored in my book. I really liked him before he started doing all of this garbage.
The media likes going after Hillary not because she’s a woman, but because she is completely reprehensible for reasons completely unrelated. She displays such a cynical point of view that I for one am glad appears to be dying. Clinton supporters who believe this is all about her gender? Well, it wouldn’t surprise me, because if you’re still in her camp after her completely destructive behavior, you’re just like the solid 30 percent that will always gives Bush a pass. I can imagine that people who vote for her because she’s a woman would fit into that mold. America is ready for a woman president, and a black president, just not ready for another Clinton president.
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Well, in order to save myself the time of typing my own 2 cents I’ll just say “what Merkwurdigliebe said!”