January 20, 2008

Scary Political Situation

What's happening in the primary and caucus elections is really scary on the Democrat side, as far as I'm concerned.  Hillary winning Nevada shouldn't be such a bad sign except that the voter turn out was light and if that is any indication of what the general election will be it could be a disaster for the United States, Hilary could actually win the nomination and I'm not sure that McCain has a strong enough organization to beat her.  Obama needs to get another major win to stop her charge.  Hopefully Florida will give it to him.

I know that it all boils down to the electoral votes and the count is close at this point, it's just a shame that someone like Hilary could actually be in a position to pull this off.  She's not what I want as a leader of our country (obviously).

I'm not sure that the Republican party will turn out in the strength needed to win the general election which means that I want the best possible Democrat to be the candidate and that sure as heck isn't another Clinton.

She has never been a leader of anything, not a state, not a city and the fact that she claims to have experience because she was in the White House with her cheating husband doesn't give her any claim to leadership.  The one thing that she backed and said she was going to get done was the health care issue and that got blown out of the water after which she pouted for months.  Great leader.  Sick.

Now I understand that being a woman it would seem that I should support the woman candidate.  Well, if it were nearly any other woman I probably would look at it really hard.  With Hillary I don't have to, she is not qualified.

Do I think that anyone is really qualified to be the President?  Other than the Mayor I don't know of anyone that can really understand the pressures of the office.  It is easy for an "arm chair quarterback" to say that we would do this or that, like reduce the amount of money going overseas, reduce the number of government employees, change the IRS system, increase our military with equipment and intelligence that would support them, put more operatives in the field to get the Intel to perhaps defuse situations before they get out of hand, reduce the welfare programs by enforcing the rules that require those that can go to work to do just that, to encourage the manufacture of real goods here in the USA to keep the creation of goods here rather than depending on other countries to supply most of our goods and on and on.  That doesn't take into consideration the pressure from "friends" that want special treatment, congress that wants bills passed that are filled with pork barrel spending, with idiot leaders that demand we capitulate to their ridiculous demands for money, support, or whatever the cause of the day is for them.  There isn't enough money in the world for someone to truly want that job, it's all about the power.  Who do I believe will be able to handle the power without going crazy with it?  Well, I believe McCain can, I believe that Huckebee could and I believe the Mayor could.

Problem is that Huckebee won't be able to go head to head with Hilary.  He's not nasty enough, in my opinion.  Although, he did get the governorship in Arkansas following the Clinton lock, but, not sure that being the governor of a "nothing" state qualifies him for the roll anymore than it did Clinton.

Obama is going to have to come up with something stronger than the message that has taken him this far.  He's going to have to go after Hilary and take her out if he's going to have a chance.  He can take the high road and still do it but he's going to have to really get with it pretty soon.  She won't play clean, she never has and never will.

Those are just my thoughts.  The adventure of the election is on, it will be interesting to watch.

Filed under politics by patwatson

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January 23, 2008

Heidi @ 10:12 am

I really hope she does not get the nomination. I would love to stand behind and vote for the first female president, but she is not the one I want leading us. I was disappointed in reading about her and Obama nitpicking each other as well.

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