Election ‘08: Hillary Clinton (All You Need to know)
Based on researching the career of Hillary Clinton, I firmly believe there is only one thing she believes in: achieving power. She is the most calculated politician I have ever seen. Now I will admit, sometimes her calculations end up on the right side of an issue. From a national defense standpoint, her calculations appear to tell her to defend the country, which is more than I can say for Ron Paul as well as all the other Democrats. But her desire to institute universal healthcare frightens me. If the success of the United States has shown anything, its that the free market breeds prosperity, and universal healthcare has been DISASTROUS everywhere it has tried. There is no logical, rational argument for it. If you have one, pitch it to me, but governments are disgustingly inefficient at it.
A blunt way of putting it is this woman appears to have no soul. I don’t say that lightly, but she is so calculated, that even though she appears to have fought for women and children her whole life, that appears to be ALL she has fought for. She seems to have had the goal of showing how compassionate she is, but has overdone it in the process. I think its wonderful that she has fought so hard and so long for women’s and children’s rights, but this country is not just made of women and children.
On the plus side, as first lady of Arkansas, she created mandatory teacher testing and state standards for curriculum and class size. She became the only first lady to have her office in the West Wing instead of the East Wing. As senator, she got $21 billion in funding for the World Trade Center redevelopment. She voted for the Patriot Act, as did every senator except for 1 (Feingold). She also voted for the ‘02 Iraq War Resolution, authorizing President Bush to use military force against Iraq, also voting against the Levin amendment, which would have required the President to conduct vigorous diplomacy and would have required a separate Congressional authorization to invade Iraq. For those of you Hillary supporters, that probably surprises you, or you ignore those facts. She looked at the evidence, saw Saddam’s regime as dangerous and supported it ONE HUNDRED PERCENT. She wouldn’t even hedge her bets with the Levin amendment. What does that tell you?
Her recent xmas ad epitomizes her inability to be likable. She is shown preparing xmas gifts for America, including Universal Healthcare, alternative energy, “bring troops home” and middle class taxcuts. A director got to edit and design a commercial to make her look good, and it was a total failure. What kind of idiot thought it was a good idea to portray a presidential candidate giving handouts? By the way, how will Hillary acquire all the things she promises in that commercial? In other words where does she get the money to fund them all? Oh ya… anyone that falls for that commercial appears to believe you can get “something from nothing” (not invented by, but inspired by Thomas Sowell).
She is very good at pandering to the crazy left-wingers, but her voting record shows she is not willing to go on record hindering actions to defend this country. When she speaks, she takes both sides on many issues, especially the war, but also the drivers license issue in New York (the Edwards campaign created a devastating commercial pointing this out). I don’t think either side can trust her, and she is not qualified to be President of the United States.