Re: Obama may have won the battle...
by
trjones1
05/07/2008, 1:01 PM #
I'm sorry, but what positive experience does Clinton have? To paraphrase a previous post I made, here is her experience that I know of: Health care in '93: she failed. When that didn't work she withdrew to try to maintain a dignified domestic life as first lady: she failed. When she went to the senate, she could have stood up and spoken out against the obviously disastrous plan to invade Iraq: she failed and supported it. She could have used her position as one of the foremost Democrats to stand up to Bush and the long list of terrible policies he was pushing down the throats of America. Instead she did nothing: she failed (until after the '06 elections when it became politically safe to stand up to Bush.) She couldn't even get a bare majority of voters or delegates in this race: she has failed. What exactly has she done in her public life that makes you think she'd do well as president?
As for giving her credit for the internet and IT revolution, that's a classic mistake of correlation with causation. What <i>exactly</i> did the Clinton administration do to cause the internet explosion? And do honestly believe that a 3rd Clinton administration would magically bring the internet boom back? How would that work?
Look, I realize that Clinton was the wife of a popular and successful (in some ways) president. How does that make her qualified to be president? It seems to me that using her marriage to a powerful man as your main argument is profoundly un-feminist.