Apparently, you have never been the target of a clique of middle school girls. A more vicious, psychologically violent and emotionally devastating entity does not exist. *shivver*
I still have scars decades later.
And those girls grow up and become suburbanites and form new cliques where they continue to rampage through the cul-de-sacs and ravage the hearts of unsuspecting women.
Oh, no, my friend, women are not the more peaceful sex. i guarantee you, if Clinton reaches the WH, she will be fearsome.

So, since that is the case, as you ably point out, why would I vote for Hillary Clinton?

This election process has become all about gender and race. We need to get beyond that. The clock is ticking and all we talk about is her gender and his race. We need to focus on the issues. It takes more than gender/race and money to actually lead. Mitt Romney is lurking and smiling!

How about a deft advert/campaign contrasting Mitt’s 5 sons–who didn’t serve–to the 5 Iowa Sullivan brothers?

All of which served in WWI–and all of whom died. Romney stood up there in front of God, the country and everybody and said “they’re serving by helping getting me elected.”

And nobody capitalized on that. One hard-hitting advertisement, constantly repeated, should sink his campaign. “Band of Brothers?” “In 1942, five brothers from Iowa, [show photos and name them] served their country. They made the ultimate sacrifice.” “Today, to Tagg Romney, Matt Romney, Josh Romney, Ben Romney, and Craig Romney refuse to serve their country. ” [Show their faces, quote their cavalier words.] “They cavort around the country in an RV while the rest of goes to work each morning. They make excuses while Pat Tillman, etc. {names & photos} serve and die in Iraq, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. “

“This is the kind of responsibility Mitt Romney taught his sons. This is why Mitt Romney is unfit to lead this country.”

I’m tired of milqutoast half-wit Democrats letting this shite slide. Hillary Clinton’s wardrobe adn cleavage is an issue because Democrats let it be an issue–and never make the issue the other guy. What about McCain’s support for torture? NO irony there?

Someone help me out here.

Why isn’t Richardson getting more play, do you think?

IN

Scarecrow–When you wrote your July 13 (I think it was) piece did you know about Scully’s takedown of Gerson in the Atlantic? Hope this gets to you–I couldn’t help but wonder…

Uh, no. I wrote my July piece without ever having heard of Matt Scully. If you mean this piece in The Atlantic, it’s dated September 2007. Maybe I don’t understand the question.

Or is Pakistan another Afghanistan under the Taliban?

I’d also think that any President who takes office should be pressuring Pakistan in just this manner, and providing every assistance to capturing for trial these criminals.

And if Pakistan refuses to do so then they should be told that they are behaving just as the Talibanic Afghan government was. And sanctions should be applied.

If the Pakistanis give the US a “green light” (and I suspect that such might already exist…but Musharraf can’t publicly announce it…every effort to avoid civilian and US casualties in any effort to capture bin Laden should occur. The biggest efforts should be made to allow cross-border surveillance…because onceyou can locate him, and track him, the opportunities dramatically increase…and the risks to personnel and non-combatants can be reduced dramatically.

They ask candidates questions about their religious faith…even though we know this is not only an “UNConstitutional Issue” (”no religious test”) but that PROFESSED PUBLIC DEVOUTNESS is not only anathema to some religious faiths but a terrible measure of a persons actual moral and ethical standards. Look at all the scores of cases where those who were supposedly most “religious” actually were the most hypocritical.

This obsession by the MSM on candidates weight, “blackness”, attire, looks, hieght, etc. indicates to me that they are incompetant to any more “act in the public interest” by informaing the public on the critical policy issues of the day.

Maybe they’d rather have the public select the next President on their singing voices and presentation a la “American Idol”. These interviewers and debate emcees look like they think this is a vote for who stays in the “Big Brother” house…not President!

Do they really think the American people are all idiots? Is that why they avoid anything of substance in their comments…or ARE THEY THE IDIOTS?

Perhaps all these MSM “hosts” will be interviewing for jobs as gameshow and reality show hosts once their ratings plummet because no one listens to their “Romney’s cologne isn’t tangy enough…he needs to use a bit more of Barack Obamas…and Dodd’s is too musky…I caught Hillary’s and it has a pleasant smell of vanilla.”

Could be, but for every republican she impresses with how tough she WAS:

at staying the course…

at helping Joe Lieberman in the primary against Ned Lamont…

at supporting the escalation of the shitmire.

at recently blaming “the Iraqi government” for what’s going on in Iraq…

at taking quite a lot of money from AIPAC (which you may remember, has SOME interest in keeping us up to our nostrils, in Iraq…)

for refusing to state, once and for all, that her vote to authorize was a mistake…

For being “tough” on all of this, she has lost probably a thousand progressive democrats for every republican she has gained.

Masaccio, republicans are simply NOT going to support Hillary Clinton in any shape or way that will help her get elected.
Period. Exclamation point.
Forced into choosing, they would rather vote for Jane Fonda.

If the democratic party IS stupid enough and suidical enough to nominate her, we will have another cliff-hanger (if we’re lucky) for them to steal.

Please, deal with it.

And, while i agree with the author’s points about the media narrative, that says nothing about Hillary Clinton’s qualifications for Preznt.

And what are those qualifications? Given her Senatorial track record, add it to the rest of her experience, and Hillary Clinton has zero qualifications for the nomination or Prznt.

That’s particularly true given the current state of, well, everything American: http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…..133832/894