Obama Makes No Sense?
by Zrarieh
Sat Dec 15, 2007 at 08:52:28 AM PST
If several months ago, I had decided to support Mike Huckabee, I would’ve been sitting on my couch right now and saying to myself: "Dems just don’t get it".
But "To know Obama is to love him". Once I jumped boats and became an Obama Republican, there’s no turning back.
But I'm not only a Republican For Obama, I’m a Republican Against Dirty Politics and I was mad as hell about Bill Clinton's comments on Charlie Rose, comparing Obama's experience with not only a TV commentator, but a plumber. As if being a State Senator, a civil rights lawyer, a constitutional law professor and touching lives as a community organizer are irrelevant experiences. How much more disgusting can this get?
If this is the kind of politics that Americans will have to endure for the next four years, then I might just consider committing suicide to register my protest.
There’s no doubt that a lot of people hate Hillary Clinton, but I don’t and I never have. I just hate their kind of politics. I acknowledge her qualifications, but I believe that America is in no position to lecture Iran or the Congo on Democracy if endorses dynasticism by electing another Clinton or Bush to the White House. It is almost saying that people like us who don’t have a great family name don’t stand a chance. There are lots of other fine I would've loved our former first lady to occupy.
Why I said earlier that Democrats don't get it is because Democratic nominees seem to be elected based on some kind of sensible calculation. It turns out most people who have been elected President of the United States, at least in the last 16 years didn’t make sense.
Electing Bill Clinton, a Governor from a small State, who had no national experience over a 2-term Vice President and incumbent President who was ready-to-lead-from-day-one, didn’t make sense. What the last two Democratic nominees (Gore and Kerry) have in common is that they were both very experienced, but got beaten by a candidate who didn’t make sense. And he sure as heck wasn’t 'ready-to-lead-from-day-one' in 2000. The guy didn’t even know about Sunnis and Shias.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/15/113440/41/612/422462