Good point.
Grifters and fanatics and never-will-be-nominated would include Paul, Cruz, Jeb and Perry, and in the category of oligarch we have Romney. Unbelievable, but in the GOPâs desperation, there is growing talk of nominating him again.
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Now, letâs not put words in my mouth. I think Hillary is electable and Iâd crawl over glass to elect her instead of a Republican, but that doesnât mean she ought to be given a pass when she says awful things. If you can tell me who else might run that Iâd like better, Iâm all ears.
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A politician is someone who runs for office. A Secretary of State is appointed. Politicians say shit to get votes. SoS is supposed to say things consistent with and in obedience to POTUS policy. Any objections are verbalized in PRIVATE (and may well have been)âdamned sure not in the public press.
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Weâre not even past the 2014 mid-terms. Isnât it a little early to be settling for the least-bad option for 2016?
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Lots. None of them get elected POTUS.
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Warren has said she doesnât want to run for president and in fact supports HRC, and without rehashing Gore v Bush, recent political history shows that the vice presidency does not usually lead to the presidency. Why would she want give up a Senate seat where she has a strong voice to be second in command and probably no chance of eventually being elected president. Veep sounds like a career ender to me.
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What a silly comment.
A huge chunk of those rebels wound up becoming ISIS (ISIL). How would that have been the right thing to do?
Hell, this is one of those situations where hindsight proves we took the right course of action - which was to stay the hell out of that mess.
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Here we go again. Once again, Hillary is trying to show how tough she is on foreign policy. Does everyone realize that she wanted more U.S. troops for Afghanistan during that failed âsurgeâ? It was only very recently that Hillary got off her high horse and acknowledged that her vote for the Iraq War of 2003 was a mistake. Took her over 10 years to admit what a bunch of other Democrats had already done. But with Hillary, she is never to show weakness or second guess a decision.
Her most ardent supporters will see this criticism about action in Syria as resolve and strength. But I wonder where those non-Islamic, anti-Assad forces were when the civil war there erupted? I seem to recall that it was damn difficult for U.S. intelligence to pinpoint âgood guysâ in the conflict. If we bombed the Islamic extremist in Syria, wouldnât we be aiding Assad? And if we armed the anti-Assad forces, wouldnât those arms end up with a group like ISIS? No, according to Hillary, we could find the right people to support, arm, and train to overthrow Assad.
Some will call this strength on Hillaryâs part, but I call it for what it is: arrogance.
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i am sorry i voted for the Iraq war. wink wink . which not only screwed up Iraq but made Iran stronger. but one thing i promise i will continue to do stupid things.
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Ah, but the wingers will reply that he didnât do âenoughâ stupid stuff in Libya to have an effect (boots on the ground, military presence for the next 100 years, as McCain has said, etc.)
Benghazi!
No, I donât think so. I think itâs way, way too late to start thinking âanybody but Hillaryâ is anything but a quixotic, Nader-esque quest doomed to failure.
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I read the entire Atlantic interview with a sense of dread that increased with every sentence. Iâve been a Hillary supporter for years, voting for her in my stateâs primary even when it was clear she was going to lose to Obama.
But Hillaryâs pandering to Israel, her disavowing of her own lack of successes in the Middle East (reminding me very much of her disavowing of her vote for the Iraq War) and her biting of the administration hand that fed her so generously, has left me quite worried. This one interview has convinced me for the first time that Clinton may not be the best candidate for the Democratic nomination in 2016.
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Clinton criticized Obama for being too cautious when it comes to intervening abroad.
This is exactly how to keep anyone under the age of 30 from voting for you.
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But they still own what they have said and done later on when they run for office. Donald Rumsfeld couldnât come out and say that he was against the war in Iraq and be credible.
And a politician is someone who plays politics for a living. They may or may not be running at a given time. The Secretary of State is a politician. The job is to play politics with other countries. The SoS is practically a pure politician, even more than a Sec. of Defense or an Attorney General.
Need the bumper sticker version: âDonât rule out the stupid!â
Barack Obama was a singular, exceptional candidate and weâll never see his likes again, correction, weâll never see a charismatic black candidate ever again. People were drawn to him because of his smarts, sophistication, yes, charisma too, and while I supported him, I donât believe she lost because of being hawkish. An Obama presidency was never going to come this way again and we knew it.
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She also just told us here that she is running for president, imo
Sheâs merely genuflecting now for our Israeli overlords so she doesnât have to outright grovel for them in the future.
A jerk is defined as: a stupid person or a person who is not well-liked or who treats other people badly. Iâd have to disagree.
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