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Originally Posted by Chungar
Alright, So I stumbled accross this site and went ahead and joined to hopefully gain some insight on the political field. My current state of thinking is...
It just doesn't matter who wins.
My general feeling is that we won't know how good Obama or Hillary will be until 5 or 10 years after they're done. I am glad Georgie-Boy is getting the hell out but I'm just not sold on anyone. I hate the way that the Presidential process works like a goddamn popularity contest and how much money they spend trying to secure my vote.
So now, if you care to, please try to influence me with factual information regarding these canidates without all the hate.
With that, I gotta go but I will be back tomorrow
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I don't know, exactly, what you're looking for.
I've liked Hillary because she's given more concise, thought out answers to questions, in my opinion. She was the first one, with regards to exiting Iraq, felt the first step would be getting a plan drawn up to do so.
FACTS, as I see them, is Hillary and Obama have virtually identical stated goals. They will have virtually the same congressional make up as would the other.
Both will address withdrawing from Iraq, global warming, healthcare, balancing our budget, getting us off of oil, etc........
Neither will be able to do anything about the way congress functions internally.
Their voting records are extremely similar, showing their core values are extremely similar.
It is my belief that Obama is more easily swiftboated than is Hillary, simply because we know so much about Hillary.
His "gaff" this week, while actually an honest statement of fact, will be held against him. His relationship of 20 years with Rev. Wright will be held against him, as will his wife's statement about "finally being proud to be an American"
He still has a lot of blanks on his page, and these make him swiftboatable, IMO>
We know so much about Hillary that anything they throw at her in the general election will be seen, IMO, as ancient news, or ficticious.
Both Obama and Clinton will, I belive make very good presidents, although, like Kennedy, he's more apt to make some rookie mistakes. However, he's certainly shown the ability to get good people to advise him, and may avoid these.
The questions, as I recall, that I though Hillary gave better answers to included:
Withdrawing from Iraq: not just our troops, but the private contractors, and we don't want the Iraqis who've help us to be slaughtered when we leave.
English: There is a difference between English being an "official" language, as opposed to being a "national" language. She seemed to be the only candidate who knew that.
Much is contested about her experience as first lady and whether or not it should count. My view is she saw a white house put together, close up. She knows what worked and what didn't work, and was more involved in various things than most first ladies, and this should count for something.
I have been extremely disappointed in her recent embellishments (and told her so) of things like her trip to Bosnia that needed no embellishment.
I will prouly support whomever gets the nomination, but I have two fears with Obama. The first, as expressed, is he'll be easier to swiftboat. The second is he's inspired a lot of people, but only to vote for him. When he fails to deliver on those promises that God himself couldn't deliver on, today's "inspired" will be tomorrow's "disillusioned."