10 Hillary Positives for Those Still Undecided
Since the ads are still going nonstop in Pennsylvania, I thought I’d provide an 11th-hour summary of 10 Hillary positives. The media — and the Obama campaign — have attempted to paint their policies and experience as virtually indistinguishable in order to justify its ongoing emphasis on petty bickering and gossip over their secret thoughts and beliefs.
Here, then, are 10 reasons for a Democrat to prefer Hillary to any other candidate.
1. Hillary grasps economic concepts: knowledge a president will need in January — given our nation’s debt, job loss, credit crunch, recession….
2. Hillary has a plan to get us out of Iraq, a plan that the 34 flag rank military officers who endorsed Hillary also find impressive.
3. Hillary has a health care plan that offers the broadest coverage for Americans.
4. Hillary’s Senate committee assignments encompass a wide array of issues — including veterans affairs, education, military issues, labor, health, and the environment — which give her a solid foundation from which to help shape public policy.
5. Hillary understands foreign policy and has dealt with officials from dozens of other nations. This will be useful, as our nation tries to solve problems with nations of the Middle East, Africa, South America, Europe….
6. Hillary has broad support among American voters, evinced by her wins in the primaries of big states (e.g., California and New York) and swing states (e.g., Florida and Ohio). In short, Hillary’s in a good position to compete with John McCain.
7. Hillary has demonstrated concern for fellow Americans — starting with her civil rights activities during college and her work during the seven years after college, which she devoted to public service (instead of taking her Yale law degree straight to lucrative arenas).
8. Hillary has broad life experience. As well as public service, she has experience in private law practice and the corporate realm, which gives her the perspective needed to help reconcile our nation’s many competing interests.
9. Hillary has learned how to get things done in Washington, both as a second-term senator and as a First Lady. For seven years, she has worked with members of Congress, some of whom had been nasty to her family. Hillary put aside the personal stuff and worked on getting things done.
10. Hillary is strong, resilient, and tenacious. She has faced more scrutiny and ugly attacks than most politicians, yet she’s still standing. Better than that, she’s still fighting. That’s the spirit a president needs in order to solve the many grave problems our nation faces. (D. Cupples, Buck Naked Politics Politics)
The next president is going to have a hard, nasty slog cleaning up after Bush. Why put Obama through it? He only thinks he wants to be president right now because he hasn’t seen close-up with the job involves. Save him and his glamour and aura and fabulousness for the next election cycle, after he’s shown that he can stand up to harsh scrutiny as well as Hillary.
16 Responses to “10 Hillary Positives for Those Still Undecided”
Great post.
You go Damozel. She's still not the one I wanted but there ARE enough reasons to vote for her (just as there are enough to vote for Obama too). Thanks for writing them up.
If she has such a great grasp of economic concepts, why is she playing “Me, too!” games with McCain's suggestion of a ridiculous gas tax “holiday” this summer? Not that either of them has the power to implement the plan, but supporting it shows either amazing ignorance of economic principles or a shameless willingness to pander.
TMV needed this. There are so many Obama fans here, including yours truly, it's refreshing to see a pro-HRC post. Thanks Damozel.
I have to take issue with reason number 1 along with MaryL..
Calling for a temporary cut in the gas tax, to be paid for via a windfall profits tax on oil companies doesn't strike me as being economically savy.
I do agree with you regarding the health care plans. But I have serious doubts whether either of them could get theirs passed into law.
Florida? So she wins in states where nobody campaigns?
Sorry, but number 9 is just wrong. She had one major executive responsibility while in the White House: health care. And she botched it with her secrecy and arrogance. Who's to say she's learned any lessons?
But maybe I should have let this entry sit. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
I happen to disagree with various points and the characterization of how the campaigns have been run, but I very much welcome this post. It's good to see a nice long list of positives for Clinton instead of a list of negatives about the other candidate. I've started characterizing myself as both an Obama and a Clinton supporter, because I think both would stand a decent chance of moving the country in a better direction.
Yes, especially the last two points, when coupled together. She is certainly tough enough to work across the aisles. How about thinking of them on the same ticket, for that will surely be necessary? So many of Clinton's supporters are ready to jump ship to McCain for all the mean spiritness from Obama's campaign staff. Together, they will have no problem beating McCain. Without HRC on the ticket, no matter how tirelessly she and Bill work at it, Obama will still lose.
Nah Elrod, if you are only going to hold her to one event in her life, then sure she is a miserable failure at getting things done. However, that healthcare fiasco laid the groundwork to many of the bills she would later author, co-author, introduce, and get passed, this to say nothing of the many other bills she pushed through.
While I don't believe that many would, if many did it would certainly be a bad reflection on Clinton supporters.
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I'll give you number 3 with the caveat that she totally botched her first attempt at health care reform.
I thought I heard her say in the debate that the gas holiday would only be appropriate if there was an offsetting windfall profits tax. That got my attention because here in Illinois, we did a gas tax holiday about 7 years ago and it definetly hurt the state. I thought Hillary's comments were more responsible.
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If it weren't for Hillary, healthcare wouldn't even be on the table. She's pushed this idea for 20 years and had to convince everyone it was even a worthy subject. Like Gore with global warming, it has been a cause for her and like him, she's had to convince masses of “flat earth” believers. Now everyone is on board. Finally!!
If you think the Republicans are hostile to subsidized healthcare now, you can't even imagine how RADICAL it was for Hillary to push it back in the 90's! The naivite about just how motivated and invested the Republicans were and are to maintain the staus quo just amazes me. Their witch hunt started then and they wasted $70 million doing whatever they could to stop it. They still are! People's memories are short but mine is long and I commend her for strategically getting in there, crossing the aisle. She gets it and knows her opponent. She means to get it all done.