To be fair, I’m doing the same thing for Hillary that I did for Barack in the previous post, so you can compare what the two have in store for you.
Here are all of Hillary’s issues (from www.hillaryclinton.com):
America’s Standing in the World | Education | Energy & Environment | Family | Government Reform | Healthcare | Immigration | Innovation | Iraq | Middle Class | Rural | Strengthening our Democracy (voting issues) | Veterans | Women
The information on Hillary’s pages is not as clearly organized as that on Barack’s. She covers fewer key issues. There is also a lot less specific information on Hillary’s pages (and she is the candidate who’s primary criticism is that her opponent is all talk and no substance).
Don’t just take my word for it. Compare, for example, Obama’s and Clinton’s pages on education.
This is the thing. Hillary is smart. She’s capable of doing the job. She knows the ropes. But there is a lack of dynamism in her that I think will be crucial in our president at this point in time.
I also have to agree with my favorite society columnist, Mark Morford, who pretty much says it all here:
See, unlike Hillary, Obama can’t be effortlessly demonized. He doesn’t have Hillary’s infamous laundry list of faults and transgressions, the enormous built-in wall of hate the right already has for her, her gender, her husband, everything she represents and carries forward from the Bill Clinton era. Smart as she is, Hillary has truckloads of baggage. Obama has but a tiny carry-on.
I am convinced (as are many others) that if Hillary is the Democratic nominee, McCain will be president.
Are you prepared to live with that?
if McCain is elected president, I will want to leave the country. My husband and I talked about doing this after the 2004 election, but we are screwed. Our sons live in California, and so do we.
My fellow Americans….I do not understand you.
Jadie, I feel your pain. I went into such a funk the day after the election in 2004 that my (then) husband thought I had gone off the deep end. I was on the gov’t. of Canada website that day taking their little online test to see if they’d let us immigrate (they would have). I would have done it but he just couldn’t understand what my hysteria was all about. Maybe he’s beginning to get a clue these days… I don’t know, I haven’t talked to him in three years. I live in Paris and my 22-y/o son lives in California. Believe me, being far from him is the only hard part of being here for me. But he gets a kick out of telling people his mom lives in France, and he’s very close to my brother and sister-in-law who are not far from him, so my guilt is somewhat assuaged.
Good luck. Let’s keep our fingers crossed! And nice to meet you!