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Source: Robbie Lindauer, 2007-05-09

Candidate: Diane

Hilary Clinton voted for the Iraqi war, to give power to Bush to invade pre-emptively based on his bullshit evidence. That makes her stupid or complicit, take your pick.

Her recent bid to remove those powers from Bush are disingenuous - now that everyone in the universe knows Bush was wrong and so was she, she's switching sides. Now changing your mind after a bad decision is a good idea. Pretending you didn't make the mistake in the first place, that's just what politicans do - to be expected.

The one excuse I won't accept is that she thought that there were WMD's - if she did, she's the biggest fool in the senate.

If she voted for it anyway, well, that's evil...

But it's too late to be changing your mind. Being swayed by popular opinion years after that opinion has been expressed means you ignore popular opinion. There's no point in switching now.

On top of this, there's the electability factor. Her hope is that she will inspire women across the nation to vote for her. This -should- work. Women should vote for her. The United States needs a woman president and this is the first opportunity. But how could she blow it? By being dishonest. By being for a bad war until it's politically inconvenient and that's what she's done.

Obama has another problem. Democrats who win the presidency do it by winning the southern states and lets face it there remains a racism problem in the American South. Southern states are swing states because of their relative poverty combined with relatively conservative overall attitudes. This makes them fickle, politically speaking. In this world of less of two evils, any reason not to vote for a candidate cinches the deal in such places.

In sum, the near certainty of a Democratic win in the 2008 election can only be ruined by the Democrats themselves and then only by putting forth unelectable candidates and this they appear to have done. The question appears to be only "why?".

Of course, only a complete idiot would really want to be president for the next four years. We've got a huge war to get out of, a tremendous trade deficit, unprecedented levels of debt, rising unemployment, a population and energy problem, a tenuous economy, and an unsympathetic world.

Maybe the dems are hoping they'll lose just to not have to deal with it.

Of course McCain has thrown the election already and Huckaby is a joke, leaving Giuliani as a triple-divorced new york elitist, equally unelectable in the south.

So that's the good news - the Republicans remain worse than the democrats, so it's wide open folks. If you're a democrat, it's time to step up your bid for presidency if you really want it...

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