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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Monday, January 29, 2007

Picture of the Day - 2














Campaign buttons for U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., are seen in a plastic bag on Saturday, Jan. 27, 2007 at East High School in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

posted by mikevotes at 9:49 AM

7 Comments:

  • I'm sorry but I see her as such a fake.

    By Blogger Handsome B. Wonderful, at 2:42 PM  

  • I'm not a fan, either. I think she has no core principles, much like her husband before her had no core.

    But who picked that picture for the buttons? Dick Morris?

    By Blogger QuakerDave, at 2:50 PM  

  • Principle? Politician? Does not compute!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:13 PM  

  • I don't think there are all that many people who are huge Hillary Clinton fans, I'm not, but I always console myself with this.

    She's damn smart, has great administration level experience, knows foreign affairs, and, by now, is an extremely canny politician.

    And to top it off, I don't think a Democratic Congress would follow her lockstep, so she would be moderated by consensus building.

    That wouldn't be a bad president. In the field that's out there now, there are many who look much worse.

    (I chose this picture because it captured something I fell about her. I'm ot sure what.)

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 4:18 PM  

  • She'd be a fine president, but I don't think she's likely to get elected. She's plenty smart and compassionate, and she's everything Bush has none of.

    But she's polarizing.

    Everyone's already made up their mind about her, barring anything wondrous that might happen between now and Nov '08.

    Similarly Barack Obama.

    My money goes on either Gore or Edwards for broad electability on the Democratic side...

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:19 PM  

  • I'm going to disagree with you on this, Mike. She'd be a terrible president for the reasons James and Quakerdave wrote. We need someone who'll put principle above ambition. This focus-group phony sure won't.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 7:20 PM  

  • Local, that's a fair point, because even the Dems are not really on board. Nobody's all that excited about her, so either she has to find someway to change that entrenched image, or somebody else will have to make the step up.

    .....

    Abi, I'm willing to accept that. Perhaps in my comparisons to the current president, I'm just so desperate to have someone I think is smart.....

    On the plus side, the Dem front names besides her, Obama or Edwards, are both just wicked smart.

    Mike

    By Blogger mikevotes, at 9:06 PM  

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