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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (22492)	3/9/2008 4:31:39 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 224717

I predict Hillary's "commander in chief" BS won't work again and may backfire. After all, if that's her big issue now, isn't she advocating McCain for president because he has more military experience than she does? And Bill Clinton, GW Bush, Reagan, Nixon all had no military experience. Carter did though. And look at how he did in Iran. JFK did and he blew it in Cuba. Kerry was called a traitor by the rightwing for his combat heroics. McCain was too. GHW Bush was called a wimp. And now Hillary is portraying herself as the iron lady? I don't think so.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (22492)	3/9/2008 10:12:53 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224717

With Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama bloodying each other in their battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, their party is out to “destroy itself” — but there’s one possible savior. “If Al Gore can pull himself away from saving the planet long enough, he might want to consider rescuing the Democratic Party from the clutches of utter self-destruction,” declares New York Post D.C. bureau chief Charles Hurt. Current polls in states that are yet to hold their primary indicate that neither Clinton nor Obama will get the 2,025 delegates required to win the nomination before the party’s convention in August, according to a published report. That means the two rivals will continue on the path to the convention viciously attacking each other while Republican nominee John McCain consolidates his support. “Forget the red phone for a national security crisis. Where is the red phone for a political party trying to destroy itself?” Hurt writes. “And where is the party leader with the respect, stature, wisdom and influence to answer the crisis phone?” Hurt eliminates Bill Clinton (“slight conflict of interest”), Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean (“virtually powerless”), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (“in a political pickle”), and several other prominent Democrats, and concludes: “That leaves Al Gore as the only person with the experience to answer the red phone and force a peaceful end to this civil war. “The inconvenient truth is that the red phone is now ringing and Al Gore hears it. The only question is whether he has the guts to pick it up.”

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (22492)	3/9/2008 10:18:28 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224717

Rendell also echoed recent comments by Hillary and Bill Clinton by saying that Obama would be "a dream" on a ticket as Clinton's vice president. But the Clinton campaign has also suggested that Obama is not ready to be president, and Rendell was pressed about whether these positions were inconsistent. "I think he's qualified," the Pennsylvania governor said. "I don't think he's as a good a commander in chief as Hillary Clinton is." Daschle saw the running-mate argument as rather unusual. "It's a rare occurrence that the person running number-two would offer the person running number-one the number-two position," he said. "Hillary Clinton was a great first lady ... but it would be hard for me to draw some degree of connection between being the first lady and having the experience to be commander-in-chief." Obama supporter Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) reinforced the point on CBS. "So on the one end, they are saying, he's not prepared to be president. On the other hand, they're saying, maybe he ought to be vice president. You can't have the argument both ways," Kerry said. "That's exactly the politics that Barack Obama is running to change." CNN's "Late Edition," meanwhile, offered a glimpse ahead at likely debate points in the general election.