Posted by
rebel on Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:33:46 PM
Hillary and/or McCain would both be a great improvement over W, but only because the current administration has moved the bar to subterranean lows. For all of McCain’s tough talk and bluster, a real military hero is less likely to send our troops into harms way than a gutless punk like Bush2 or his underboss; five deferment Dick. His domestic policy will frustrate both sides of the aisle, insuring that he won’t be able to do much serious damage Meanwhile, I’m happy to put the economy in the hands of a self-described novice who delegates the job to qualified staffers. Imagine what a mess Romney could have made? Based on his business experience, he would have sold off California to the Chinese and the northeast states to Europe. Then he would have opened up the remaining states to “seasonal” workers, depressing wages in the Midwest down to the $2/hr range. With no customers able to afford the products produced in these sweatshops, the final act would have been golden parachutes for the board members and then burning down the factories for the insurance money. Capitalism at its finest; wringing every last (fast) buck from America’s rotting core.
Hillary would have a similarly non-substantial impact on the country. Her foreign policy would be purposely blustery to ward off any talk of her being soft on our ‘enemies.’ Any chance of historic advances, like normalizing relations with Cuba, or publicly denouncing the worst of our past interferences in other countries would be killed off by her team’s over reliance on chasing public opinion instead of leading the country toward a better future. Like her husband, she would govern more like a moderate Republican (circa 1965) than anything that might be mistaken for liberal or even progressive. Why is it that Republicans can go on national TV and rant about their hard core conservative values, while leading Democrats avoid the word liberal the same way Bush and Cheney’s generation of Republicans avoided military service.?