Is Hillary Clinton a Neocon-Lite?

[elzenmahn]

42. No she hasn't earned it...

...you're putting the cart before the horse on this. I go back to my original point - that there was a similar "air of inevitability" around Hillary in 2008, when she was the presumptive nominee, prior to the rise of a certain Senator from Illinois. If this "air of inevitability" was based on reality - that is, the sentiment of the vast majority of Democrats - then Hillary would have cleaned up that Super Tuesday, and Obama would likely still be a Senator from Illinois. She and her people got complacent, and it cost her.

My beefs with Hillary have nothing to do with her husband. They are with her receiving $400,000 in speaking fees from the banking industry, where she tells them to not worry, and that any demonizing of them was counterproductive. I also find her to be too "blue dog", as far as fiscal policy is concerned. Vote for her, and on the banking and fiscal fronts it will likely be "meet the new boss, same as the old boss." She's simply too cozy with Big Money for me to have any real enthusiasm for her candidacy - check out what Krystal Ball on MSNBC said about her not too long ago.

Look, IF (underline, IF) Clinton earns the nomination (sorry, but she hasn't yet, and she's not entitled to it), then better her than anything the Repubs prop up. But I'll have to bring a gas mask to the voting booth in order to do it.