2016 Postmortem
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I will not vote for Hillary. She has shown poor judgment in Arkansas, and as First Lady. Her stint as Senator, she voted against the Levin Amendment to forestall the war in Iraq. The reason she said was that "it would have made the president's authority subordinate to the U.N. That was a misleading statement.
Levin made it quite clear in an October speech on the senate floor that
"My resolution affirms that, under International Law and the U.N. Charter, the United States has at all times the inherent right to use military force in self defense, affirming the fact that there is no U.N. veto U.S. military action."
Source: Sam Stein of the Huffington Post.Com. Feb. 1, 2008.
For all her movement on the civic stage, Hillary has really not much to point to that says "I did this, that, and the other." And as Sec. of State, she was nothing more than a Meet-and-Greet Ambassador-at-Large. She tackled no hard issues. None. She even failed at health care as First Lady. lizabeth Warren, on the other hand, can point to a whole new department she created and organized, but the Repubs would not vote for her to head it. As a junior senator, she is spearheading a lot of measures. She's dynamite!
As a senator, Hillary was low key for two terms - - except for her vote for the trumped-up war in Iraq. I suppose because it would look good on her resume as an aspirant first female commander-in-chief!
It troubles me that we Americans are dumb as hell. All want Hillary because she is a woman. They are not asking the right question:
IF HILLARY IS THE ONE, WHAT HAS SHE DONE? A bumper sticker material?
Reading list: Partners in Power by Roger Morris - paperback at Amazon
St. Hillary by Michael Kelly - New York Time Magazine. May 13, 1993.
Hillary the Pol - The New Yorker. May, 1994.
Hillary is reportedly smart, but not smart enough to run the nation. She would be great as a social engineer - - tinkering with human behaviors, etc. a Carry Nation, or an Amy Semple MacPhearson (phonetic sp.) to Bill, an Elmer Gantry.