Reply #52: I'm a woman intellectual (Ph.D. Yale, eleven years as a professor)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

and I used to like Hillary until I learned more about her.

It's easy to like Hillary if you're thinking only in terms of wanting to have a woman president. If you look at her pro-war foreign policy and neo-liberal economic policies, however, you'll see that she's really one of the power elite, and not in a good way.

She shares her husband's greatest weakness, that of wanting to be liked more than she wants to be right. Like Bill, she would cave in on anything if she were afraid the Republicans might get angry.

She's the yuppie candidate, strong on behavioral issues such as abortion rights, but weak on the areas where the country really needs a change of direction, namely economics (not the stock market, but improving the lives of the increasingly strapped middle and working class Americans) and foreign policy (non-military options).

I'd like to see a woman president in my life time, but I would not be happy if that woman president turned out to be Hillary.

And the Republicans? Well, you might as well start planning THEIR victory party if you run Hillary.