As an Ohio voter, I feel I have to weigh in on what I've been observing as a political junkie so far. Every time I see Hillary describing Ohio and Texas as "her firewall" or touting herself as "the experienced candidate" and claiming that she has the superior leadership skills-- I want to scream at the television set: "JUST LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE IN HOW THE CAMPAIGNS HAVE BEEN RUN!"
1) She had to loan her campaign money because they spent too much too fast-- yet I'm supposed to believe in her fiscal responsibility.
2) According to many reports she has an "insiders only" approach to her campaign and already has had major turnovers with her top personnel-- if she can't get things done within her inner circle how is she going to be able to reach across the aisle to actually pass the health care plan she already failed at the first time the Clinton's were in the White House precisely because she couldn't garner the needed support. We need a consensus builder and her campaign offers no evidence that she can do that.
3) She basically wrote off all the States where she was not favored to win. It seems to me that if you are running to be the president of the United States, you need to be about the people-- not the percentage points and PEOPLE should not be written off because OH and TX offer more delegates! If I lived in Wisconsin I'd be angry.
4) She keeps writing Barack off as some wet behind the ears youth whose time has not come yet.
I'm not even going to analyze the last comment because while I was tinkering online I found a copy of her Wellesley speech that she gave in 1969 and I have found that her own words are far more damning. I wish I could introduce Hillary Rodham of 1969 to Hillary Clinton circa now. These are the exact words of an excerpt of her speech that she directed at an establishment politician while she was an ambitious youth. Hillary Rodham (1969) says:
"What can you say about a feeling that permeates a generation and that perhaps is not even understood by those who are distrusted? All they can do is keep trying again and again and again. There's that wonderful line in East Coker by Eliot about there's only the trying, again and again and again; to win again what we've lost before.
And then respect. There's that mutuality of respect between people where you don't see people as percentage points. Where you don't manipulate people. Where you're not interested in social engineering for people. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences. And the word "consequences" of course catapults us into the future. " Hillary Rodham-- 1969 Wellesley address
I couldn't have said it better myself Hillary-- that's why I'm voting for Barack and deep down I think that Wellesley girl might too.
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