Friday, February 15, 2008

Hillary Clinton

Truth be told, I disagree with a fair amount of Hillary's platforms, but my biggest problem with the Clinton's deals more with character. Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath, and beyond that, he lied to the American people. Honestly, did he think that Monica was going to come forward with that accusation without any additional evidence?

Also, Bill Clinton destroyed the strength of the US military by drastically reducing its size. If you remember earlier in the Iraq war, many people were concerned that North Korea would try to attack some of their enemies, because a large amount of our troops were tied up in Afghanistan and Iraq and they knew we wouldn't have the additional soldiers to handle any other problems. This would have never been an issue if the military had been left alone. As it was, Bill Clinton decided to demilitarize the country while Al Quaeda had openly declared war on the United States, facilities that held weapons of mass destruction were bombed in Iraq, and we weren't very good friends with Cuba or North Korea.

Then, there is her involvement in the campaign finance scandal. How can we even think of electing someone who was involved in that kind of scandal?

The former Clinton administration was a joke and the next one will be too if she gets elected. All she does is rant about President Bush, never offers solutions to the war, and she has never apologized for voting to send our troops out to war. Sure she has said that we would never be in this war if she had been President at the time, but I have never heard a forthright apology.

How on earth could she possibly lead the country when she simply changes her actions based on the latest polls? Of course, I wholeheartedly believe that she would never even think of pulling the troops out of Iraq if she was directly responsible for the results. As a Senator, she always had either a Republican majority that she could always vote against and know it wouldn't make a difference, or she at least had a group of Democrats to disappear amongst. She never held an executive office where responsibility fell directly on her. So now the question is, will she actually make decisions based on her principles now, or will she continue to be driven by the polls?

To sum it up, if you want to see a woman in office, but not that one, vote for Gladys.

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