Comments on Another Washington Endorsement

Ooooh! BUT! Would he if Gore was running?!?!durrrrr?!?!

Like Sims, he probably wants to be secretary of something in the forthcoming Clinton administration.

He could be Secretary of Bland Government Projects That Don't Really Make Any Difference. Of course, that's a vast improvement over Secretary of Non-Consensual Public Sodomy, which appears to be the working title of every member of the Bush cabinet.

Dear GOD, things are not going to be much better if Hillary does get the nomination. She does not see us leaving Iraq any sooner than 2013......

Things are looking like I am voting for the Green Party Candidate....even if it is Nader.

But, who's endorsing Ron Paul with the neat homemade signs on Cap Hill? anyone but Hilary W. Bush is my guess.

Just Me@5, would it make you feel any better to know that most all commentators believe Hills just answered that particular question with that particular answer to avoid giving the Republicans a sound bite that they can use in general election? That she, like every other Democratic candidate, plans on getting the fuck out of Iraq as soon as humanly possible?

But to *do* that, she has to get *elected* first, and that means putting politics ahead of honest discourse.

ps-

She didn't say she didn't see us leaving Iraq before 2013. She just wouldn't *commit* to leaving before 2013. Again, for the reasons that I stated.

dollars to donuts, gary's going to be ambassador to china.

and that's fine with me.

I just don't get this hillary thing. As a rule, I don't vote for republicans, which limits my options. But please don't make me vote for hillary. She's got no soul.

If the Iraq War was the only important issue, I could see voting for a third party candidate based on the "no withdrawal before 2013" responses at that debate.

It's not the only important issue, not by a long shot. Consider the effect of even one more conservative Supreme Court justice.

And really, even the most conservative Democrat is unlikely to simply continue Bush's policy on Iraq. They're campaigning for votes in relatively conservative "purple" parts of the country that they need for a majority, so it's not surprising that their statements are cautious, even if it is deeply disappointing.

No soul, #9? What the hell does that even mean?

Many liberal voters, myself included, don't buy into this whole "soul" business in the first place. Taking its literal meaning, it's pretty hard to justify claims that someone has no soul (and what's next, dividing people into evil-doers and non-evil-doers, as Bush does?). Metaphorically, "soul" seems to be a stand-in for an array of unstated personal traits that might or might not be relevant to presidential performance.

Do you mean that she's emotionally cold? Do you mean that she's particularly ethically or morally compromised? Do you mean you don't like her? I hear a comment like "no soul" and it really boils down to "I don't like her." OK, but why don't you like her, really?

@9 It occurs to me that a person who recognizes someone without a soul would also be a person who could never be coerced into doing anything. Make you vote for Hillary? Are you headless?

Hillary-hating is so de rigueur and so mindless. My favorite is that she'll turn America socialist. WTF does that mean? A majority of American women voters could actually elect our first female president, but somehow I don't see that happening. Why? Would someone out there answer that? Or do we have to re-ask the infamous Freudian question: "What does a woman want [politically]?"

@12:

because america is afraid. afraid of women, afraid of "socialism", afraid of their own shadow.

and american women are the most afraid because they are the most relentlessly propagandized population this side of NK. they are terrorized & propagandized into hating themselves. congolese gang rape victims are less afraid.

I agree maxsolomon. For some reason there are a lot of American women out there who are pretty self-hating. Actually, I should say American white women because I don't see it so often in minority women. This reminds me of the Chris Rock about why Barack will be president.