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Showing Original Post only (View all)Why do I feel like Hillary is being forced on me? [View all]
Why?
Why is she inevitable? Why didn't she win in 2008?
Am I the ONLY person who remembers the PUMAs? Remember them? I'll give a few points to the first person who reminds us what PUMA stood for, and then I'll ask, So what exactly makes Hillary the best candidate? Really?
She was an abject failure in 2008. If the Democratic party is dumb enough to nominate her in 2016 that will almost guarantee we'll have a Republican president elected that year.
For all of you who blithely say, Oh, she's been through all that, she's vetted, the old claims against her won't matter, all you have NO idea how the real world works. Everything that was held against her in 2008 will be held against her, and then some, in 2016.
More to the point, why the fuck is anyone considering someone from the past???? Why aren't we looking to the future? Remember that? The future? The direction in which we should all be looking? Why in the world are you thinking that in eight years there has not been anyone new come into the Democratic Party that we should be considering? Why are you looking at twenty plus years ago to lead us into the middle of the twenty-first century? Really? Tell me again?
Just in case you can't figure it out from this post, I do not support Hillary Clinton. I think that all this idiocy over her is more than a little like the daydreams of Colin Powell as our nominee, or a totally idiotic notion of a "dream ticket" including John McCain, which we got far too much of in 2004.
Hillary Clinton is NOT the future. She is the past. If we want to move into this century and all its challenges, we MUST look forward, not backward.