I'm not afraid of Hillary. I just don't like her. I really disagree with her health plan.
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I like where Obama is on the issues and I like his voting record. It's out there for all to see, contrary to the snipes levelled at Obama's campaign by the Clintons....
Honestly, that's where I am. I honestly believe that Obama's positions, propositions, platforms, and values will suit us better than Hillary's.
Please.
First off, his voting record is feather-light: 3 years at the US Senate, conveniently commenced AFTER the war in Iraq had gone south, so he didn't have to make an official stand. Being a man and all, he didn't have to play butch to impress the red necks out there who still think a woman can't be Commander In Chief either.
The pair even agreed that their voting records and their stance on issues were strikingly similar, completely in line with the Democratic playbook.
What voting records are you referring to that so vastly differ from Hillary's or the run-of-the-mill Democratic tenets?
Technical differences on their health plans do not warrant such anti-Hillary hysteria. Of course she wants power, as Obama does. What else would REALLY give them the kind of energy 2 years of constant campaigning demand?
What I find confounding is that Obama, who is
admittedly a liberal (nothing wrong with that), and who
voted (as Hillary) with his own party during his short US Senate tenure poses as a healer who works across party lines.
Wait! Wouldn't that require a
more INDEPENDENT, centrist platform, one that would be
well to the right of his current positions? Duh!
I
fail to see any evidence of his collaboration with the GOP on critical issues. I do see that he actually
fillibustered the Roberts nomination, against all Republicans and against the vast majority of Democrats (including Hillary) who understood that Roberts would be the best compromise.
He actually pulled a fillibuster at the US Senate on the nomination of the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.
Isn't that a prime example of those sleazy old Washington tactics he so decries?
Remember Li'l Bush, The Uniter, The "Compassionate Conservative"? Do we deserve a Democratic version to balance things out?