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Clinton, Obama, and American Idol, too....
I watched the debate until Maria Carey was due to perform. I would have passed up Idol altogether if Hillary had not started getting into so many technical aspects of just what she would do if she were president, more I thought to demonstrate what an advantage having been in the White House along side Bill gave her over Obama. And she got boring which is fatal to a candidate. We confine our president to two terms for good reason I think, and Bill is one guy I don't think she ever handled to her advantage. He just made her look bad. And electing her would put Bill in the White House again, able to exert far too much influence. I think she is as good as she can be considering that, but money is not everything. Bill and she I read have made $109 million dollars since 2000! That's almost obscene.
I measure people by their convictions, especially the ones that are just right but might make them very unpopular. These are convictions I don't think she and Bill ever held. I am talking about legalized abortion here. I measure people by their standing by this one commandment, "Thou Shalt Not Kill." Even if holding that conviction keeps them poor and unpopular as long as the people are determined to punish them for making them feel guilty. Legalized abortion is a solution that everyone needs to examine to the depths of their being. I think loss of conviction is one reason why our world totters on the edge of disaster.
In our own country there is not enough conviction for the young people to grasp and hold on to. For me, Hillary is all over the place. She supported legalized abortion when she thought she needed to be pro choice for Bill to win. In those days everybody had to declare themselves pro choice it was thought, to have any chance of winning, even Republican presidents like Ronald Reagan. Would Hollywood ever have supported him if he had not gone along in a vague sort of way with that philosophy of life? He did not talk much about it, but he did not strongly oppose it. He thought that would have been political suicide. Let somebody else sacrifice themselves and fall to the bottom trying to keep conviction stronger in America.
Obama, who immediately declared himself as a man of faith, gave me some sort of hope that in the important areas he would stand strong. He brought up abortion, he said he did not believe in killing those who stood for abortion as one Christian leader did. I think he was trying to say he was not that kind of extremist, but Hillary did not take the bait. She knew she could serve the cause of legalized abortion better at this time by keeping quiet. They have achieved their up to a million abortions a year, so why remind people? She knows if she wins she can make sure that policy stays strong and firm.
It's not easy to oppose the wrong policies. Bill and Hillary have become extremely popular by not opposing the ones that would really cost them. Obama just by running puts his life on the line as neither one of them do. Men of conviction always put their lives on the line because they oppose tough stuff like racism and legalized abortion. They shake people up. They make them think. They challenge them. I will vote for Obama with not a little fear because I know he will stir thoughts and feelings, he will tend to start little wars within. Hostilities might break out. A candidate of conviction unleashes the ugliness in ourselves so we can examine it and figure out how to subdue it. Racism! How do we subdue that enough to elect a promising black candidate to office? That alone is a huge step we have never taken yet in America, the land of the free.
Hillary and Bill are betting that we are not large enough in spirit to do that. That we will settle comfortably back in their hands. Bill has been our movie star president with the morals of one, emulating his hero John Kennedy. I always thought it was partly Kennedy's recklessness, his contradictions, his flamboyant flaws that helped get him killed. He used gangster support to get elected and then he put his brother in office to fight crime, which could well have been regarded a betrayal. He like Bill thought it was all right to be unfaithful to a mere woman. Now this mere woman that Bill was unfaithful to so many times, wants to be president. She never did act as I would have done had Bill did to me, even as governor what he did to Hillary. I would have divorced him if it was the last thing I ever did. She felt so sorry for himshe helped get him elected president! And this would be our tough commander in chief? I dont think so!
Hillary has never wanted to be a poor unempowered single mother who finally has to divorce a man who demeans her. She and Bill would both have lost their power if she had done that He very likely would not have been elected president, she would not have been first lady, or successfully ran as a senator from New York, or now in a tight race be one of the leading democratic candidates for president.
But in her heart she would have known she did the only thing she could do to rein in a spoiled self indulgent man who was always falling short of greatness. If you don't stand by your convictions, you do not inspire your children. If you do not inspire them how could you take your country to a better place? We need a strong leader desperately who will give us the strength to endure hard times by telling us what is right again.
I felt Bush violated the commandment Thous Shalt Not Kill in his eagerness to go to war. Saddam had not attacked us. He was threatening but acting more and more like an aging toothless tiger. We did not go to war to protect the lives of our children. There were many leaders in the world who hated us. I think because of the Gulf war Bush was obsessed with Saddam.
I think both Clinton and Obama are on the right track when they say they would bring the troops out of Iraq, that they would exercise the power of the commander in chief and do what was right for the American people. I think once Bush got into Iraq then he started doing what was right for the Iraqui people. He said he was saving them from Saddam so he would be considered the good guy after that savage invasion. And had to forget about the American people he was elected to do his best for, and above all, the soldiers he had to be willing to see maimed and killed to prove he had been right to invade Iraq. Nothing was ever going to make a premptive strike and that invasion right. He jumped the gun, and that is a huge mistake because then you are stuck with a big war. No war stays little. It just keeps costing more in every way every day. Made Bush look like he succumbed to war fever, no more or no less, and we have to depend on the president to keep his head. We have had to spend billions in Iraq because Bush insists it was too important strategically to abandon, another justification for war which just does not convince. This was after he declared there would be no casualties!!! One of the dumbest statements a man could make, even if he was Joe Blow next door and not the president.
We didn't have that kind of money to be making that kind of commitment in just one country! The generals were more hesitant about going to war in Iraq than Bush was. So much about these decisions suggests Bush just half way thought through very important principles of honorable conduct.
The same with Clinton. She is not a thinker who goes to the core of belief. She and Bill have always been just too flexible. I think Obama will be tried by fire if he becomes the democratic candidate. America will have to have courage just to elect him.
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