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Sorry if my grammer isn't perfect on this, i'm gonna type pretty fast and stream of concious:
#1, i don't think her iraq vote was horrible, biden voted for it, so did Edwards, and i love both those guys. I think Bush was wrong to invade as he did.
2. I'm having trouble understand all of the different healthcare plans, but edwards and hers are similar and i believe edwards really is "for the people" so i think hers is too. But i know without a mandate prices will be too high. She's been working on healthcare for 15 years, so i trust her.
3. She wants to dismantle nafta, so i'm down with that. although i might like obama better for dismantling free trade. this is where his honesty comes in as a plus for me. she's too familiar with it, and i wouldn't put it past her to be shady for it. but then again, i think she probably has much more knowledge in this area. she's visited tons and tons of countries and is well verse in international affairs. that being said, i really don't know what he knows internationally, but she is well versed.
4. I do find her to the right of me, i am probably a little to the right of edwards, so i have to make that choice. Well, i think her being to the right of edwards makes her possibly more electable. but i don't know and i often find myself torn btwn the 2.
5. She HAS always stuck up for women and families. She goes out of her way to talk about difference btwn payrates for men and women, is very concerned about child welfare and educational opportunity, in the senate she's big on issues like fighting against cuts in Medicaid, women's health care, raising the minimum wage, getting emergency contraception for the poor, etc. Things that are important to struggling families. She's been involved with the education system since her time in arkansas, and education means a lot to me. She IS liberal when it comes to education. So is edwards and dodd, but while dodd is great on the domestic front, i don't know too much more about him.
6. I worry about Edwards electability even more than hers. If i could just *put* someone in the white house, it might be him, but maybe not. but i think he's a tough win b/c he's lost so many times already.
7. Oh her campaigning! it sux sux sux sux sux. unreal. suprising. and if she keeps making mistakes, someone else will be my number one. probably edwards.
8. I just cannot get behind obama as number one. I don't like him emotionally. He leaves me cold. And i watch him with interest, but so far not much he has said really speaks to my heart. But i think he probably has guts, but he seems just as opportunistic as clinton, i don't see too much difference btwn them in that area. I have looked at his voting record, and its pretty much the same as hers, except she misses few votes than he does. so what's the dif. btwn them? well, i'm in ny, so i am more familiar with her record and what she gets for ny, than whatever he has done for IL.
9. i personally don't think obama is experienced enough. i think she'll be able to work faster to undo the 8 years of bush. I think she's hardcore and i think btwn her and bill, they know evertyhing they need to undo, and she'll do it.
10. Biden is great i've not heard him say anything about domestic social policy that endears me to him. and i know for a fact that he has no chance in hell of winning, and electablity is obviously an issue.
My big problem with her is the patriot act, which is why even though she is technically my first choice, i will always be wary of her. I'm used to her having a bigger mouth, so for her to be so conservative is sort of painful for me, but everytime she really opens her mouth and sticks her foot into it, it's something pretty liberal, so i do have faith in her.
Ok, hopefully no flames, i ran off at the keyboard. :) (this being said, at any given time Obama, Biden, Dodd and Edwards have also held #1 status for me, but i finally settled on hil a few days ago).
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