What's remarkable to me is that I felt such disdain for her back in 2007/2008, but she has kicked so much ass as Secretary of State that I'd be delighted to see her become president. My opinion of her has done a complete 180, which I could've never in a million years predicted.It's a good illustration on why people shouldn't vote based on how they feel about personality. She's obviously the same person she was in '08. Hillary fans also absolutely loathed Obama, and that all went away when he won the primary (except for a few bitter clingers, of course)
This was profoundly baffling to me at the time, that so many people who had adored her as First Lady and Senator changed their attitude towards her (and Bill) in the Dem primary. Many of them even disdained me for continuing to adore her. I still think she would have made a better choice.Well, she was behaving in a really obnoxious, and frankly, kind of pathetic way. Why would it be surprising that, if someone you like starts acting like a dick all of a sudden, you might not like them anymore? They stop acting like that, you might start to like them again.
But in practice, it's only going to be beautiful if that woman manages to be more than the same product that every post-war election has given us.How many ugly dudes have been elected? Other then, maybe Richard Nixon, since television really started having an impact, all presidential candidates have been relatively good looking, for their age and certainly compared to the typical politician or cabinet member. John Edwards was probably the best looking candidate in the 2008 primary, followed by Obama. McCain wasn't the best looking republican in '08 and he lost in a landslide. He had also been good looking when he was younger.
"Has any other SOS served at a point in history where saying that was acceptable to a majority of Western people?"Still isn't acceptable to a majority of non-Western people, so her support for gay rights in places like Uganda would be one mark in her favor. I still think it's rather difficult for a regular person to evaluate a SoS, maybe years later when 'insider' books are written, you might get some idea. But still, those are all self-serving to some degree.
I liked the tumblr, thanks for posting. I wish then-Sen. Clinton, had seen through the lies, and voted against war in Iraq.We don't really know what kind of bullshit they were being fed in 'classified' form, but there were some people who had access to it and saw through it. Colin Powell is reported to have known it was B.S, but went out and lied anyway. Barbra Boxer was on the Intel committee, and would have seen anything. According to her, the Intel wasn't good enough.
A CAMPAIGN FINANCE SIDE EFFECT OF ‘TEXTS FROM HILLARY?’ Half the duo that created the wildly popular — and now forever ended (http://politi.co/IyGSyC) — Texts from Hillary blog may find his newfound stardom will benefit his day job as a campaign finance reformer. Adam Smith says Public Campaign, the nonprofit reform group where he’s communications director, hasn’t yet realized a donation windfall. But he tells PI Texts from Hillary “has definitely raised my profile, which in turn will help us raise the profile of our work at Public Campaign.” “My Twitter follower count has nearly tripled since last Thursday — from 1,100 to over 3,300 currently. That helps to expand the audience of people who will see the work we do here and helps us get our message out.”posted by XMLicious at 1:23 PM on April 13, 2012
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