Hillary Clinton
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Well here we are in June, so I can only speak of what I see and have seen so far. Let's review:
We had a president for eight years who was the leader of the "Less Government!" GOP Party that factually created more government than any president in US History.
We had a vietnam vet' run for president in 2004 who refused to fight and play hard politics, and in trying to be "above it all" lost the election to an unpopular (factually by the numbers) president at the time.
We now have a president who is allowing money to be invested into the car industry and its foundations, not realizing that if we had given all that money to each household, we could have paid our mortgages, our car notes, and generally helped the economy from the ground up. Now these auto plants are producing cars with all that stimulus money for what? Americans who don't have enough money to buy them? That's one of the worst investments in US History.
We now have a president that took several days to react to the gaming tactics of China. We went from "The Decider" to "The Undecided."
We had a candidate running for President who gave the authority to use force in Iraq as a last resort, and gave a Senate floor speech on why she voted that way, and what her reasons were, and how it was not to be used to start pre-emptive war. That candidate is damned for that vote as it is spun into an "invasion vote" when it was an authority vote. That candidate would also have been damned as "anti American" and "unpatriotic" had she voted against the president.
We had a democratic candidate in 2008 who gave speeches for real change on human rights in China against a communist regime, staring communism dead in the face. We have a current president who gives a lot of generalized speeches to Americans, including the importance of eating vegetables.
We had a candidate in 2008 who began the fight for real health care change back in the early 1990's...faced opposition, and made a mark on the issue... Now we have a president who ran an -entire campaign- on change and won't even stand up against health insurance companies to get single payer to the table.
We had a candidate in 2008 that could get virtually any world leader to hear her by picking up a telephone because she knows just about everyone... Now we have a candidate that has to tour the world more than Madonna to be heard to negotiate.
We had a candidate that spoke out against the Iraq war and GW Bush and damned another candidate for her vote on AUTHORITY for use of war, while at the same time that candidate ran on change--he sided with GW Bush on many Iraq policies post 2003, meanwhile Madame candidate fought GW Bush's with every legislative opportunity available.
We had a candidate who went face to face with bill oreilly and explained her full positions on taxes and the middle class. Now we have a president who still cannot figure out what to do with finance, bailouts and taxes...instead, all the money is going to banks and corporations--the very people that helped to SCREW UP the economy in the first place.
Change you can believe in?
I don't.
What we need is EXPERIENCE YOU CAN VERIFY.
Even a mistake or two on the record is certainly better than voting in someone with very little record and now you get to take the ride with that candidate watching them make mistakes and find their way. No offense to the supporters of any candidate, but those are my honest thoughts. I have nothing personal against President Obama---However, it is my view that he is politically extremely young to be the leader of the free world with consideration to the points I have mentioned.
And I'm a registered democrat.
Now you have to honestly ask yourself one question...
Would Hillary Clinton have made an excellent president?
I think you know the answer to that question.
Thanks for reading.
---Mathew