Clinton

[jayfurr]

I don't normally discuss politics in my livejournal or much of anywhere else. I find the anger and spite people get up to pretty distasteful, and so I stay out of it. That being said, I'm emerging from my cave to say that if and when I get a chance to cast a vote in the Vermont primary, I plan to cast it for Barack Obama, provided the worst hasn't happened and he hasn't already dropped out.

Policy-wise, I don't have much problem with much of anything Hilary Clinton is campaigning on. Neither do I have problems with what Obama is saying. I actually liked Bill Richardson best of the original nominees, although I didn't agree with everything he said either.

Once I've essentially come to grips with someone's planks, the second question I ask myself is how I like their personal style. And that's where I don't like Clinton. She seems to have a pretty bad temper and she doesn't strike me as particularly honest. I'm still quite curious how the Rose Law Firm records just "showed up" on a table in the White House after years of being "lost".

Campaigning on her opponent's lack of experience when a) she hasn't gotten any major legislation passed either, and b) her husband didn't exactly have tons of experience when he was elected President, strikes me as pretty darn disingenuous.

I grant you that eight years of withering personal attacks from the Richard Mellon Scaife crowd and the impeachment can make anyone a bit sour. I doubt I'd be secretly the world's happiest and merriest person if I'd been through all of that.

I'll vote for Clinton if she's the nominee, but if she wins I expect a very polarizing four or eight years. And perhaps it's just the small-town Vermont Town Meeting-influenced personality in me talking, but I don't like polarizing politics. I'd like to think we can be a bit more adult than that.

Comments

[zakmckracken.livejournal.com]

Nicely put, jay.

[flaviarassen.livejournal.com]

I guess this isn't the time/place to mention all the things I've been finding out about Obama that decided me against him....

(yeah, go ahead & shoot me! Q-: )

[jayfurr.livejournal.com]

Go right ahead. I don't particularly see that any candidate is beyond criticism. I just prefer not to be around people who've drunk the Kool-Aid, as it were, and now regard their candidate as the Second Coming of Elijah.

[flaviarassen.livejournal.com]

It all started w/his very naive remark about Pakistan. Then finding out that he belongs to a church that honors Louis Farrakhan. & then finding out that he's holding a gospel tour (yeah, that's inclusive) - that is headlined by openly anti-gay performers. I do give him credit for saying that he "disagrees with them", but he knew who they were when he hired them. Topping this with a voting record that is evasive at best sort of did it for me.

I'm just so disappointed.