Last week I early voted for the first woman who ever had a chance at being President of the United States. I was excited to do so and am excited to see her win. Because I have to believe that she will win. That this country is not so lost that it will elect a person who is as manifestly unqualified to be president as Donald Trump.
In 2008 I supported her opponent, now President Barack Obama, because I believed he would be the great president that he has turned out to be, despite every effort by Republicans to make him fail. And I did not have the heart then to live thru more years of Clinton Derangement Syndrome from the right. Of course, they just re-framed the derangement to take new forms such as birtherism and made the last eight years just as ugly as I feared they would be for Clinton.
So this time I have been with her from the beginning. I think (and have always thought) that she was an amazing woman, and particularly with the four years of experience she added as Secretary of State since her last campaign, she truly is one of the most experienced candidates we have ever had for president. I've also always believed she was a lot more liberal than she has often gotten credit for.
Of course, I am fully aware that her chances of getting much done are slim in this political environment. But I can't believe that any Democrat will have any better success until the Republicans stop raging at the (literal) dying of their demographic light and reconstitute as a proper, rational opposition party.
In any case, I wanted to recommend a few articles that may change the way you think about her given the way some views have hardened over this long campaign:
If you think she isn't liberal enough, read To My Friends on the Left: Hillary Clinton Is Not the Enemy and also read Hillary Clinton’s Quiet Revolution
If you think the emails are a scandal, read The Real Clinton Email Scandal Is that a Bullsh*t Story Has Dominated the Campaign
If you somehow think Clinton is less honest and trustworthy than Trump, read Republicans and Russian Hackers Have Made Hillary Clinton the Most Transparent Candidate in History and also read Conspiracy Theories, Not Facts, Are Driving Hatred of Clinton
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Thanks. I agree
Thanks. I agree
My excitement
My excitement at seeing the first woman president-specifically Hillary Clinton-elected is tempered only by the sadness I feel at seeing the Obamas leave the White House.
i don't bear your confidence.
Rome had Nero and Caligula.
Russia had the bolsheviks, Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky, and Germany had the National Socialists.Hitler and his henchmen.
The US has lasted for 200 years.
It can't last forever.
No country ever has.
Babylonia, Assyria, Ancient Egypt , Rome as I have mentioned all fell.Largely through internal forces.
The people of Russia was tired of the Tsars, so they allowed in their agents of change.The communists.What did they have to lose ? Right.Stalin killed millions of his own people.Sent millions more to the slave labor camps.
Germany allowed in their own change agents .The people were tired of the old Prussian aristocracy.Hindenburg and his cronies.So they said to themselves.Let these National Socialists in.We couldn't do any worse.What do we have to lose ? They will make Germany great again.Hrumpf.
We know what happened there.
I did not like the Bushes.I did not like Reagen.But I never thought they would destroy the country.Trump can destroy everything.I sense it He can.
Maybe it is our time to follow those other countries and make the same mistakes they made. To fall into the abyss.Into the dustbin of history and become a second rate has been nation that was once great but made the critical mistake of putting the wrong people in charge and poof, it is all over.
The American people can be as stupid and as suicidal as the people of those other countries I have mentioned were.
So I don't have your confidence in the outcome.
Watching Former Gov. Don Sundquist
On Inside Tennessee makes me happier than ever to be a Democrat. This man blamed the division of congress on the invention of air conditioning and airplanes. He then went on to say he was opposed to citizens United, but when pressed that Hillarys Supreme Court would overturn it, he totally back peddled.
Then his phone went off...while on the air. Smh...
Nate Silver says HRC has a 64 % chance of winning
Trump has a 36% chance of winning.
Even with the Aryan Nations and the KKK trying to suppress minority votes.
Up to 67.4 percent as of
(in reply to Anonymous2)
Up to 67.4 percent as of 11:40 a.m.
Clinton will be the first
Clinton will be the first woman President. She will be one of the most qualified President ever. No candidate for President has ever been less qualified than Trump. Clinton has detailed plans for policies she will try to enact. Trump has no clue about foreign policy or domestic issues or anything else a person would need to know to serve as our President. It is sad because of Trumps lack of knowledge, he has not been able to present any real argument or comparison with Clinton's detailed stance on domestic and foreign issues. We need a real debaye of important issues. Trump is a joke around the world. A person would have to be a racist, sexist, homophobic, etc. to vote for Trump.....or maybe just plain stupid!
seems like the repubs are trying to keep college
students in Maine from voting:
(link...)
rather sad.I expect more though as the election draws nearer...
Nashville.gov You are
(in reply to Anonymous2)
Nashville.gov
You are required to change your residency to Davidson County if you want to vote here.