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Edited on Sat Jan-06-07 11:10 PM by TayTay
They will merely do whatever it takes. Just like the Repubs.
I doubt they are scared of anyone. They probably figure they have the money and the will and the people and figure that the rest will fall in place in time.
Nothing is determined yet. They still have to run the candidates. And every candidate and every human being has pluses and minuses, things they do very, very well and things they really don't do well at all. One of the things that people who get power do very well is figure out how to take out the opposition. George Bush had no qualms at all about smearing John McCain and letting his surrogates in SC in 2000 spread rumors that McCain had a black child and that McCain had been brainwashed in his days in captivity in Vietnam. That is, of course reprehensible.
Bill Clinton advised John Kerry to denounce gays and civil rights for GLBT Americans in the 2004 race. He thought that was a price that could be paid for power. Kerry, to his credit, did not. (And it would not have done any good.) I think Mrs. Clinton thinks that there are things for which you 'bear any burden, pay any price.' The Presidency may be one of them. So far, it is worth friendship, decency and principle, because if you are President they will all respect you for that and forget how you got it.
She is vulnerable. All human beings are vulnerable. Maybe it's on her ambition, maybe it's on her flip-flopping on the issues, which she is massively guilty of, maybe it's on the very coldness that tells her that it's all right to sacrifice everything you believe in to obtain power. (What do you do with that power when you have it if you no longer have principle guiding you? Maybe she should ask George Bush. Maybe he could tell her that making the heads of big corporations like Halliburton and ExxonMobil keeps the demons away at night. Maybe she can just substitute the heads of different corporations and that thought will keep her warm and able to sleep.)
She is vulnerable. She once did have principles. She once did need others to bail her out. I don't think that right now she considers anyone a threat, much less John Kerry. I think she believes that she doesn't need anyone else, she has it all planned out. She will ascend to power and everyone will forget how she did it and come to her on bended knee for whatever they want. I bet she thinks that.
She is vulnerable. How come when she gave recent speeches on foreign affairs, no one in the press said much about it, except that she was boring? How come she isn't known for any kind of legislation except for joining with Joe Lieberman to restrict video games and announcing that she would vote FOR a flag burning amendment to the Constitution. (Ask younger people under the age of 25 what they think of this. My son despises the woman and told me that he thinks she is a sell-out. He told me he doesn't know of any kids who like her or would bother to vote for her. Hmmmm, I wonder why. Is this not a more idealistic generation? Hmmm, maybe they can tell when something isn't there.) My son thinks of her husband as that guy who got a bj in the White House and makes fun of him. (It's the first thing that comes to mind for him. Clinton, yeah, he had sex in the Oval Office with an intern. What a joke.)
She is vulnerable. Everyone is vulnerable. Everyone. There are no sure things. No votes have been cast yet. Not a single debate has occurred. No one has had to defend their actions yet, had to say why they did or did not turn on this war and why. No one has yet had to explain themselves. It's very early yet. Give it time.
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