Comments on: Selma, Obama and Hillary

By: kritter

kritter — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:25:46 +0000

I like Obama’s speaking style, too, vwcat. He has a rare quality that I last saw with Jack and Bobby Kennedy. Hope he at least snags the Vice Presidency or a Cabinet post— also would make a great UN ambassador. He’s too charismatic a leader to stay in the Senate.

By: kritter

kritter — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:21:56 +0000

Maybe all of them are calculating- but when I look at Hillary I can see the wheels turning in her brain. She’s brilliant, and is probably great one-on-one, but lacks charisma in crowds. She doesn’t create any excitement. Actually, I prefer her husband over her, even with all of his zipper problems.

By: vwcat

vwcat — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:29:00 +0000

I watched Barack Obama’s speech and as usual was carried along for the ride. His speaking in incomparable. When Hillary came on I watched some of it but, couldn’t hack the pandering fakery of her style.
Even when they showed Bill on television and in pictures, I gotta say, Obama’s star shines brighter.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:02:01 +0000

Which of the Washington gang is NOT calculating?

Dennis Kucinich and Russ Feingold

By: domajot

domajot — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:59:52 +0000

Kritter re Hillary: “I do find her a bit too calculated”

Which of the Washington gang is NOT calculating?

By: kritter

kritter — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:26:14 +0000

Its true that Hillary is not a natural. She needs someone with Bill Clinton’s natural political talent , but then runs the risk that he’ll outshine her. That’s why they rarely campaign together. I do find her a bit too calculated—while I always found her husband more spontaneous. They do make the race more interesting, but I still wish she’d stay in the Senate, and that Al Gore would make another run with Obama as his VP. He was right about so much that Bush was wrong about.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:05:52 +0000

Pulling out of Iraq now is what the American and Iraqi people want. There is nothing extremist about it. The extreme view is “stay the course” in the face of all the evidence that we are creating more terrorism and putting our kids in unrecoverable debt.

By: domajot

domajot — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 19:36:01 +0000

You Hillary haters don’t know what she is trying to do only because she is not dancing to your tune.
She is abviously trying to be a centrist Democrat. That may outrage the far left and the ‘pull out now’ people, but looking into the future, it’s the only kind of Democrat with a shot at success.
Obama is pretty centrist, too, on a lot of issues, He’s lucky that the spotlight has yet to fall on him from that angle. He is also lucky that he hasn’t been around long enough for every one of his pores to be scrutinied under the microscope.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:10:50 +0000

The closest thing from that article would be the “Dianne Feinstein” Hillary… but I’m not sure what she really believes. Not that it matters, her actions have spoken.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:08:43 +0000

I find her detestable for mostly the same reasons I didn’t like Bill. You never feel like you’re ever getting the truth out of either of them. They are entirely too coached and fake.

She compounds it by being pro-war and pro-big business (including support for NAFTA and the WTO).

Hillary offers no real break in policy from our current administration. She just hides it better.

By: Alan G

Alan G — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:12:43 +0000

Sheâ€™s detestable,

Now you should read the Mother Jones article and figure out which version* of Hillary you dislike, and why.

*I believe the article has 8, from “Eleanor Roosevelt” to “Lady MacBeth”

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:57:18 +0000

She’s detestable, but it’s hard to see how she could be worse than the President that we have now.

By: Alan G

Alan G — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:29:58 +0000

And regarding Hillary, there is an interesting article on her in the latest edition of Mother Jones. It describes her as being kind of a “political Rohrshock blot” for the nation, and some of the reasons why she attracts antipathy from both conservatives and liberals.

By: domajot

domajot — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:41:57 +0000

Hillary’s problem is that she is not a ‘natural’ as a public speaker. Her style is a bit studied and her voice brittle. You can’t blame her for not being charismatic, but there it is.

When she speaks from the same platform as her husband, the comparison is painful, and I feel sorry for her.

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