I guess those rumors are true. I always thought she was the butch.
This picture I could believe if they left out the balony in the middle.
I think she probably has the same problem as GWB and, to be fair, nearly every politican I can think of – she has lived in the political world for so long, she thinks it really is the world. She has held to the same beliefs for so long that she cannot fathom an intelligent person with different opinions.
While a person with this mental deficiency can make good decisions in a position of power, they are nevertheless blinded by the brilliance of their own strongly-held beliefs. But I fear Clinton less than Bush, because I feel that while they both suffer from this problem, she is not “dangerously un-American”, despite her socialist leanings. I’m starkly terrified of George Bush because I think he’d be glad to take away as many freedoms from Americans as possible in his attempt to “make us safe.”
I have little doubt that he wants us all to be safe and happy. I just think he’s going about it the exactly wrong way.
Minor hijack here – a very dear friend of mine works a minimum wage job at a video store. In the beginning of May, he collapsed in a store due to a herniated disc in his back. He has no medical insurance because his work cannot afford it. We, his friends, had to pay over $100 for the ambulance alone, plus another…$300, I think, for medical care so substandard that, if he had been less lucky, could have left him paralyzed. He was treated (briefly; I think she was present for five minutes of the four hours we were in the ER’s hallway, not even the ER itself) by a doctor without a shred of bedside manner, he was ignored for hours on end, even when he was begging for a bedpan so he could relieve himself. A friend eventually got him into the bathroom, but by the time he got there he could no longer stand and, not to put too fine a point on it, made a terrible mess of himself, our friend, and the bathroom floor. Since then, he has had endless trouble trying to get treatment for his back. He has gone through a good deal of physical therapy and pain medication, and will probably have to go through surgery as well.
And because he is not insured, it is going to cost him thousands of dollars he doesn’t have.
I know for a certainty that he would not have been treated so poorly in that ER if he’d had insurance. The man in the stretcher next to him was less badly-injured, and nurses checked in on him every half hour at least to make certain he was all right. He got X-rays and doctor chats; the people on hand did everything they could to make him comfortable.
So I’m bang alongside the idea of socialized medicine, and if it takes bringing another Clinton into office (hey, maybe she’ll rebalance the budget again too, you never know) to do it, then so be it.
Rant off. And that, above, is almost as liberal as I get. 
Send apples or else!
It’ll be a real pain, Zoe. With a liberal Congress, it MIGHT be possible to get very very limited socialized medicine, but it would be a major coup.
First of all, call it universal health coverage or universal health insurance. “Socialized medicine” isn’t going to win many people over. Doctors are already tweaking over med. mal. insurance.
If there was nothing good about a private health care system I’d jump for “socialized” medicine. But, when you put it that way, I tend to think of killing the goose that laid the golden egg.
Beagle, I agree that the word socialized has heavy connotations. And I suspect that opponents of any bill will take full advantage of it.
I wonder what Clinton’s other priorities would really be. As you can imagine, I am tired of voting for two white guys almost every Presidential election.
I wonder if the world would perceive us as more peaceful with a woman as President.
Well… If it came down to that, I’d certainly vote for Martha over Hillary any day of the week. :dubious:
You mean like Maggie Thatcher or Indira Gandhi?
The thing that really bothered me about Hillary was that she is as plainly power-hungry as any politician I have ever seen. Not that others aren’t, but there is at least a thin veneer of sincerity over top. She doesn’t even have that.
She moved to NY because NY offered the best opportunity to become a senator. She had no ties to NY, no reason other than this to move to NY, but now she is my senator. I can’t even pretend that she represents me, she represents herself and the Democratic Party, using my senatorial seat. If NJ or CA or SC had the position she wanted, she’d be ‘representing’ them instead of me, and she wouldn’t hesitate for a single second to call those places home instead of NY.
She is the consumate mercenary, going where the power is, but she still garners tons of support, I find that disturbing.