Monday, October 13, 2008

Hillary For President

This author, generally being a conservative, didn’t think he’d be endorsing Hillary Clinton, but for our current choice of candidates, and the multiple problems we are facing, Hillary as a write-in candidate, is by far our best choice.

Out of 300 million people in the USA, it’s hard to believe that all we can come up with is the current lot of candidates. Obama- totally inexperienced, outsider, without a political base from which to draw from. Clinton’s first four years in office were widely a failure because of an inexperienced staff and a lack of a political base in Congress. Obama is similar to Bill Clinton in having normal to high intelligence but much less experienced. Bill Clinton had been a governor with executive experience for over 10 years by the time he went to the White House (unlike Palin’s two years). Biden- his running mate- intellectually low on the totem poll. He is called an “expert” on foreign policy- this author strongly disagrees. Watching his discussions about foreign policy on youtube and reading his foreign policy reports online, reveal an extremely simplistic comprehension of foreign policy and obviously canned responses and/or reports written by his staff. Biden was also caught plagiarizing his speeches (he can’t come up with his own stuff ?)

McCain is an outsider- he claims- exactly what we DON’T need now- we don’t want someone outside the beltway- we need an insider to bring coalitions together and do backroom deals to settle the economic disaster we are facing. McCain’s military experience was hardly at the strategic level- so, his often repeated emphasis on his military past does not necessarily make him a global strategist. McCain was also badly tainted by the Keating Five financial scandal- cannot we not find a clean candidate ? His running mate- Sarah Palin- entertaining to watch, obviously a great hockey Mom, but with the extra exposure she has reluctantly allowed- its overwhelmingly apparent that she could not take over the Office of the Presidency as even nearly qualified.

So- who then ? Hillary is the only clear cut qualified person, both personally and politically who could step into the current crisis running- without need of a long period to get up to speed of what a President does and how to do it. Write in Hillary !

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

obvious!