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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.
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.
