Posted Jan 20, 2008 by 
mlh in Politics | 36 comments | 421 views
The title to this piece has been inspired by a Canadian who follows American Politics very closely and keenly. The author to the very informative piece is none other than Theo Caldwell, National Post (Canada) Wednesday, December 26, 2007. I like this guy. And, he is certainly correct. Let's face it. Hillary Clinton is counting on the coattails of her husband as a former President of the USA. Without those coattails, she would not have the wherewithal to pull this whole charade off and that is the absolutes of absolutes.
What is/are her experience level(s) as an Executive at anything? What has she accomplished as a Senator from New York, aside from lying to her constituency about running for President before she was elected as a Senator for New York? The $1M she has requested for the Woodstock Museum got quashed and that seems to be her biggest claim to notoriety as a US Senator. And, what of her secreted "experience proving documents" that Judicial Watch has finally gotten access to? This is going to get ugly and so far, her HillaryCare quagmire is about to befall her already damaged credibility
Forget about John Edwards the Ambulance Chaser that amassed his wealth on the backs of victims, all in the name of those said same victims, all the while consorting with those Big Bad Capitalists that he "sleeps with" that he is now castigating as evil? Will he return his ill-gotten lucre to the victims in recompense to those he shivved? Not hardly.
Barak Obama. Another one with zip for experience and accomplishments and as to the alleged "drug use" and "drug peddling" allegations from the Clintonian Camps, I never believed them - primarily because they surfaced from the Clinton Camp and it is elections season in the USA. His utter loss at knowing recent history should offer at least a glimmer of his inability to recognize truth went it faces him dead on. Honesty and Integrity, whether personal or professional, is absent from American Politics...mores the pity.
The most notable verbiage in the piece referenced to previously that compelled me to sit on this a spell is as follows:
On the Republican side and, bear in mind that President Bush is NOT FDR and will not be seeking a third and fourth term, there is a wealth of Executive experience. We may not like the candidates but that does not distract from the fact that they each have the experiences required to aspire to the Presidency. That fact is plainly obvious. As Theo Caldwell ends his piece, I have come to accept it as a just assessment. It took a while but it did sink in.
Sad that. No?
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What is/are her experience level(s) as an Executive at anything? What has she accomplished as a Senator from New York, aside from lying to her constituency about running for President before she was elected as a Senator for New York? The $1M she has requested for the Woodstock Museum got quashed and that seems to be her biggest claim to notoriety as a US Senator. And, what of her secreted "experience proving documents" that Judicial Watch has finally gotten access to? This is going to get ugly and so far, her HillaryCare quagmire is about to befall her already damaged credibility
Forget about John Edwards the Ambulance Chaser that amassed his wealth on the backs of victims, all in the name of those said same victims, all the while consorting with those Big Bad Capitalists that he "sleeps with" that he is now castigating as evil? Will he return his ill-gotten lucre to the victims in recompense to those he shivved? Not hardly.
Barak Obama. Another one with zip for experience and accomplishments and as to the alleged "drug use" and "drug peddling" allegations from the Clintonian Camps, I never believed them - primarily because they surfaced from the Clinton Camp and it is elections season in the USA. His utter loss at knowing recent history should offer at least a glimmer of his inability to recognize truth went it faces him dead on. Honesty and Integrity, whether personal or professional, is absent from American Politics...mores the pity.
The most notable verbiage in the piece referenced to previously that compelled me to sit on this a spell is as follows:
To wit, none of the Democrats has any business being president. This pronouncement has less to do with any apparent perfection among the Republican candidates than with the intellectual and experiential paucity evinced by the Democratic field. 'Not ready for prime time,' goes the vernacular, but this does not suffice to describe how bad things are.Exactly so. It is indeed dire straights for the DNC candidates aspiring to the Presidency of the most powerful nation the world has ever witnessed. As they pander and cater and 40+ years of identity Politics comes to an ugly head, the emotional are torn between voting for a woman or voting for a black man, completely dismissing the obvious...neither is qualified to be president of a local Glee Club, let alone the United States that aren't so united these days.
On the Republican side and, bear in mind that President Bush is NOT FDR and will not be seeking a third and fourth term, there is a wealth of Executive experience. We may not like the candidates but that does not distract from the fact that they each have the experiences required to aspire to the Presidency. That fact is plainly obvious. As Theo Caldwell ends his piece, I have come to accept it as a just assessment. It took a while but it did sink in.
Forget for a moment all that you believe about public policy. Discard your notions about taxes and Iraq, free trade and crime, and consider solely the experience of these two sets of candidates. Is there any serious issue that you would prefer to entrust to a person with the Democrats' experience, rather than that of any of the Republicans? Now consider the state of debate in each party. While the Republicans compare tax proposals and the best way to prosecute the War on Terror, Democrats are divining the patterns and meaning of the glitter and dried macaroni glued to the page of one of their leading candidate's kindergarten projects.Well, my dear Canadian political junky, it is indeed simple but we Americans are inclined to make mountains of mole-hills.
Does this decision not become unsettlingly simple?
Sad that. No?
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