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[crazynezumi]

WHew.

Who are you voting for?  Not that I plan to follow everyone else's vote, but in light of the upcoming primaries, I'm going to post perspectives on each candidate.

When I have the time, it'd be fun to make a sonnet about the candidates.

Upcoming post on issue topics

I mean, this whole fiasco is really humorous in a way, if it didn't have to do

Comments

[thetruebard]

Hillary took California and much of the Northeast.

Since she's got more Superdelegates already, it'd take a fucking miracle or an assassination to give Obama the nomination now.

Words cannot properly convey my disappointment and my utter firey rage.

[crazynezumi]

what do you have against hillary?

[thetruebard]

Well, I was drunk when I wrote that, but Hillary...

...it's...

The one year the Dems could run nearly anybody and beat the Republicans, we seem to be setting our sights on a right-of-center washington insider who won't even admit she made a mistake approving Iraq. She is a cold, cynical wonk who is confusing people with claims of "universal health care" (when in reality all she'll do is force you to buy health insurance, awesome) and producing crocodile tears to get the woman vote.

[crazynezumi]

That's a biased statement that makes a huge amount of unjustified assumptions

[thetruebard]

True universal health care would be using tax money to provide everybody with free health care. Like, you never pay for anything, you just go, because taxes have already taken care of medical expenses for the entire country. I've said in the past I'd happily pay twice as much in taxes each month just to know me and anybody else could get health care--free--at any time

[thetruebard]

Who doesn't want health care? Presidential candidacy shouldn't be about whether or not you think someone's crying for real or not. What's her relationship with Iraq anyway? What the hell do you want out of her, a penitance and ten Hail Marys for some random statement (note: WORDS, not action) that she may or may not have made about Iraq? Iraq happened during the Bush administration. By "problem states" you mean a nicer term for "axis of evil"? "HEY ADMIT YOU'RE WRONG, IRAN ISN'T A PROBLEM STATE! ADMIT YOUR WRONGDOING!" Seriously, this is ridiculous.

[thetruebard]

What's the "Well" she returned to?

If there was less government spending on healthcare, there would be more funds reallocated to more constructive policies. I read that Obama's rejection of an individual mandate would make it more difficult to reform the system: http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20080205/cm_huffpost/085144

[thetruebard]

The Bible annoys me in its black and white portrayal of good and evil. " 22Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart"

Evil desires of youth? Excuse me, what's wrong with living life?

I disagree with it villainizing LGBT too why am I doing work I'm ideologically opposed to

[thetruebard]

I, uh...agree with you?

[thetruebard]

Also, a Washington insider might have more power to affect change. When Roh Moo Hyun was elected in Korea, he came into power through a largely grassroots sort of effort. Years later, his legacy is ineffectual precisely due to the fact that he found himself blocked in many avenues and unable to gain support from political factions. I think it's a tragic situation, especially one that does not give enough credit to his efforts and the breakthroughs he made in dealing with North Korea.

From the reviews I've read of Chang Rae Lee's Native Speaker, it sounds like a metaphor for President Roh's political career. If his girlfriend symbolized Korea's populace, etc....

[thetruebard]

Oh and I have not seen Hillary cry. Besides, it's impossible to cry without feeling sincerely upset unless do actors use eyedrops? I doubt she would. From a thinktank report I read years ago, I vaguely recall the fact that Iraq was inevitable given Afghanistan. It's unfortunate, no one approves of war, and I'm sure she didn't just say war is a good thing

[thetruebard]

Actors don't use eyedrops, no, but there's a difference between actual spontaneous tears and the tears that are dredged up through use of past emotional experience.

[crazynezumi]

Doesn't that mean the person must have gone through some terrible emotional experiences to be able to do that? How saddening

[thetruebard]

Do you mind if I erase your assassination statement? Are you seriously trying to get arrested when the Patriot Act is still in effect? Chill out, man. I admire Hillary for everything she's dealt with and she was Clinton's backbone in his presidential candidacy, in fact from my limited knowledge of her history, I'd maintain that she was more intelligent than Clinton. Why are people so antagonistic towards her?

One of my few gripes about Clinton's candidacy is that she doesn't make much mention of civil liberties.

[thetruebard]

Feel free to erase the "assassination" thing, but know that I would never hope anyone actually get assassinated. I was just using wild hyperbole to express my feeling that a Clinton nomination is all but inevitable.