matters american and political

i don't understand why people are getting their knickers in a twist about hillary clinton's comment regarding RFK's assassination.

she was listing primaries that lasted into june. rfk had just won the california primary when he was assassinated.

granted, she could have worded it better. "and the 1968 democratic primary wasn't over until july..." might have been a more diplomatic way of wording things.

but hillary, who definitely needs to borrow bill's silver tongue, is not wording things as carefully as she might these days. her comment likening the primaries to the elections in zimbabwe was lamentable.

i think i might be swinging over to obama. i was very iffy for many months. i thought hillary's health care plan might be better. however, then i listened to her speeches and how she is promoting herself and her experience in the white house. she believes her time in the white house makes her the more capable candidate. she had eight years in the white house to try and create a health care plan, and the one she came up with was so unachievable for the majority of americans it was quickly abandoned. it was obviously not a passion.

i was completely unimpressed when both democratic candidates started complaining about nato. give me a break. workers in canada taking american jobs? are you kidding? canadians aren;t the ones taking american jobs, kiddies. and please, nato benefitted the usa for many decades. just because the canadian economy is currently enjoying an upswing, does not mean you should be able to re-write it. seriously. share the toys in the sandbox, and the sand for that matter.

i would have liked for there to be a women president. but i don't believe you should vote for a person along gender lines. thankfully, if you look at the breakdown of hillary's supporters, she has a lot of men who recognise her intelligence and power, as well as women. that is important. just like it is good that she has black supporters. i don't like the idea of voting for someone just because you are both the same race.

despite admiring her mind and tenacity, although being disappointed with her campaign, i was  disappointed when hillary pulled that bosnia/sniper fire thingie. yes, obama did do that "parents met at a march snafu" showing he is not above re-writing history as well. but when i heard hillary's version of the events, and later, her justification .. it just reminded me that the clinton's have a problem with straight answers. and it was around that time that i said i was pro-o.

my vote on the first tuesday following the first monday of november won't happen. i am not american. but finally, i have a candidate. for now. hillary isn't dropping out anytime soon, apparently, so i have quite a bit of time to change my mind.

Comments

[Dad aka GDad Blake]

I know you meant North American Free Trade Agreement. No fear of it being scrapped as it allows the USA access to Canadian freshwater and oil. Oil and water normally don't mix but we can see one exception.

Love to all....Dad

[Stephanie]

I started disliking Hillary with a passion when she changed her mind about Florida and Michigan. When she was the frontrunner, she was first in line to say that their vots should not count. She even got Edwards and Obama to take their names off the ballot in Michigan. Now that she's hurting for delegates and votes, she's adamant that their votes should count. SXorry, but's that's a little too blatantly self serving for me. She really will do ANYTHING to win.

[Rachel]

I don't think she meant exactly what she said on Friday, although I think when she was tired she said something like that because it's a scenario that she's thought about--she doesn't want harm to come to him, but she does factor it into the realm of possibilities. The thing that really rubbed me wrong was her "apology". There was a commentator on Sunday who said that his wife always said that if an apology included the word "if" it wasn't really an apology.

I've been supporting Obama since last summer and I really believe that he's going to be an amazing president for this nation and the world.

[Debby]

Another thing is that, in 1968 (and I think until just this year), the California primary was the first Tuesday in June. But since then, usually the race is long over by then. California got tired of having no voice in the primary, and moved their election to Super Tuesday (Feb. 5).

There are only maybe two small states left in play. Plus Florida and Michigan.

[Elaine]

I was pro-Hillary for a long time, after once meeting both her and Bill and realizing that she actually had more natural charisma than he did. I was loosely Obama going into the race, though, and Hillary's actions during the primary season have just thoroughly turned me off. I think it's funny that what she slams about Obama -- his freshness and his oratory, promising hope -- is exactly what got Bill elected in 92. Certainly Obama will make his mistakes if elected, but I think the unifying potential he has for the U.S., and the PR potential of a U.S. President whose middle name is Hussein, and who spent several childhood years in an Islamic nation, is incalculable. When I travel outside of Japan, I'm already finding a lot of interest in him and a lot of people in various countries who want him to be elected, in a way I don't remember happening before.