# Say What You Like About Hillary's Politics... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 14, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-what-you-like-about-hillarys-politics/437524 "2008-02-14T00:17:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-what-you-like-about-hillarys-politics/437524/21 "2008-02-15T05:35:22Z")
Dammit! We need to just start electing the guys with the hottest wives (or if female, the hottest candidates). We’re never happy with the people we elect anyway, and it would do away with all this bullshit over caucuses and primaries and who lied or didn’t lie about what the other guy said or did. (And let’s face it: guys who look like Dennis Kucinich or Fred Thompson and gets wives like they have has _got_ to have a lot on the ball!) No big fund-raising efforts would be required, no ad buys, no lies and no bullshit. Everybody can see what they look like and just vote for whoever’s the prettiest. And they’ll love us in Europe. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-what-you-like-about-hillarys-politics/437524/22 "2008-02-15T05:38:17Z")
I’ve been seeing more coverage of Michelle Obama lately (who seems really cool, incidentally. She’s an Ivy League lawyer like Hillary but she comes across without any stridency or pretense and appears to adore her husband, regardless of her little deprecating jokes about his socks and his gassiness). We heard about Elizabeth Edwards’ cancer. We haven’t heard much about Cindy McCain (who started her relationship with John McCain while he was still married to his first wife, by the way. If he was a Democrat a huge issue would be made of that but IOKIYAR). I don’t remember seeing a thing about Janet Huckabee. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-what-you-like-about-hillarys-politics/437524/23 "2008-02-15T05:51:40Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] …I don’t remember seeing a thing about Janet Huckabee. [/QUOTE] You remember her first name, which is better than I could do. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-what-you-like-about-hillarys-politics/437524/24 "2008-02-15T17:11:38Z")
[QUOTE=Dangerosa] How are President and G.H.W. Bush introduced when they are in the same place? [/QUOTE] “Ladies and Gentlemen, Dumb and Dumber.” ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-what-you-like-about-hillarys-politics/437524/25 "2008-02-15T18:43:20Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] The use of “President” as a courtesy title, while distressingly common, is incorrect. A former president is properly addressed by his most senior former title other than “President.” Should Hillary win the office, they would properly be introduced as “President and Governor Clinton.” [/QUOTE] What is your cite for this? The AP says refer to former presidents as “President Carter,” etc. At least that was the case when I was still reporting for newspapers. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-what-you-like-about-hillarys-politics/437524/26 "2008-02-15T18:50:10Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] “Ladies and Gentlemen, Dumb and Dumber.” [/QUOTE] Now THAT I’m almost positive Miss Manners would say is incorrect. Possibly distressingly common… ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-what-you-like-about-hillarys-politics/437524/27 "2008-02-15T19:23:17Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Obviously the OP didn’t see the _Daily Show_ story on [FLILFs.](http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?searchterm=flilf&search_title=Search+Results&x=15&y=11) [/QUOTE] Holy crap. I knew Elizabeth Kucinich was hot from her pictures but I didn’t realize how hot. I wish we could vote separately for First Lady like we used to for VP. I would rather stick needles in my eye than vote for Kucinich but I would love to see her in the White House for the next 4 or 8 years. ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-what-you-like-about-hillarys-politics/437524/28 "2008-02-15T19:48:12Z")
[QUOTE=Loach] I wish we could vote separately for First Lady like we used to for VP. [/QUOTE] Now there’s a Constitutional Amendment I can get behind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/say-what-you-like-about-hillarys-politics/437524.md?page=1)