tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post2661256629869127889..comments2024-03-28T23:33:45.139-04:00Comments on Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I : My Most Sincere Apologies to Hillary ClintonComrade Misfithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-7635095564097457552010-01-25T07:29:15.060-05:002010-01-25T07:29:15.060-05:00While Steve and BadTux make good points here, and ...While Steve and BadTux make good points here, and Mule Breath did in his blog post, I have been very impressed by Hillary's work as Secretary of State.<br /><br />I think she would have tried as hard as Obama to be bipartisan, but once it became clear to her that the Republicans were having no part of it, she would have started shoving it up their ass and breaking it off.<br /><br />Kane, thank you. I enjoy your blog.Comrade Misfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-55779532795610240052010-01-25T01:02:38.793-05:002010-01-25T01:02:38.793-05:00I was on the Hillary side of the left blog primary...I was on the Hillary side of the left blog primary battle. So it's great to read an apology like yours. I hope to see more like that.<br /><br />I just noticed that I'm on your blogroll and I'll be reciprocating momentarily. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.madkane.com/madness/" rel="nofollow">Mad Kane</a>Mad Kanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09062896853710827250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-12849176214422010432010-01-23T10:21:38.616-05:002010-01-23T10:21:38.616-05:00Was going to comment but got carried away, so I ju...Was going to comment but got carried away, so I <a href="http://muledungandash.blogspot.com/2010/01/musings-on-obamas-failures.html/" rel="nofollow">just blogged about it</a> instead.Mule Breathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05586696064321854554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-37113792077848661742010-01-22T20:32:11.380-05:002010-01-22T20:32:11.380-05:00Hillary's problem was that inevitability is no...Hillary's problem was that inevitability is not a campaign, and that's all she ran on -- inevitability. It worked for George W. Bush in 2000, but GWB had four times the money that John McCain had in 2000, which made a *huge* difference. <br /><br />In the end, Obama simply ran a tighter campaign than Hillary. His campaign was focused, coherent, had cohesive messaging rather than jumping all over in a "flavor of the day", and was *not* characterized by the infighting and divisiveness that characterized Hillary's campaign, which was a soap opera of campaign operatives squabbling for power and stabbing each other the back with leaks in the press. Obama's campaign simply clicked along on all cylinders where any squabbling or infighting happened behind closed doors and not in the press, and his campaign ended up pounding inevitability into the dirt in the end. <br /><br />So I'm not so sanguine about Hillary being a better President. I liked her policies better during the campaign -- I especially heaped praise on her health care plan, which allowed everybody to buy into the same plan that Congress is covered by -- but she just wasn't able to execute. I see no reason to think she could have executed any better *after* election than she did before it.<br /><br />-Badtux the Backward-looking PenguinBadTuxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01345749557330760251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-74400101678464813782010-01-22T18:30:56.745-05:002010-01-22T18:30:56.745-05:00my vote in the primaries is looking better every d...my vote in the primaries is looking better every day.<br />she wouldn't be trying her best to please people who would never vote for her, that's for suremerlallenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01023548198899856438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-22746700161815424442010-01-22T15:52:34.770-05:002010-01-22T15:52:34.770-05:00Never could figure out why people continue to hate...Never could figure out why people continue to hate the Clintons. They were never our enemy but our side was not smart enough to figure that out even to this day.One Flyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03772881642197609507noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-59752357604273915572010-01-22T15:24:00.422-05:002010-01-22T15:24:00.422-05:00But don't forget that Hillary's husband wa...But don't forget that Hillary's husband was the king of preemptive surrender to angry wingnuts, except when it came to saving his own ass. Remember welfare reform? The Defense of Marriage Act? The overturning of Glass-Steagall?<br /><br />OK, maybe Hillary would have done better than that on most domestic issues. Which might have partly made up for the fact that she would have appointed her very good friend John McCain as secretary of defense.<br /><br />I don't blame you for being deeply disappointed with Obama. But don't put rose-colored glasses on when looking at the alternative.Steve M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-86878653394595750892010-01-22T14:45:40.882-05:002010-01-22T14:45:40.882-05:00When I think of all the racist shit I've seen ...When I think of all the racist shit I've seen and heard since 18 months ago, I have to wonder how entertaining it would have been for Hillary to get in. All those same motherfuckers would have started out just as hateful...<br /><br />...and then they would find things rather cold and lonely in bed.Nangleatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01908938252272172718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7924773307171301256.post-51468785110125760162010-01-22T13:06:01.604-05:002010-01-22T13:06:01.604-05:00For all the jokes about Hillary having balls...wel...For all the jokes about Hillary having balls...well, she really does.<br /><br />Sexist politics or not, we need a pragmatic woman in office to clean this shit up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com