What is the most important thing about Hillary Clinton as a potential Democratic candidate for the Presidency? What is the first thing that springs to everone's mind?
Yes. You got it in one.
My personal view - with which you are free to disagree, especially as I might be completely wrong - is that Hillary Clinton is a totally unsuitable person to be the leader of the most powerful nation on earth.
But she is a woman, isn't she?, so I am in a very dodgy position if I oppose her candidacy.
Well no, not really. I am paying her the compliment of not thinking about her gender, but about her unsuitability for the job.
I've also ranted about race issues in the same vein. If you believe - as our damned Commission for Racial Equality believes - that the most important fact about a person is their ethnicity, we will get nowhere. Not only will we get nowhere, we will perpetuate racism by being racialist, if you see what I mean.
I want the freedom and the right to assess a person as a saint or a sinner, as a good egg or an asshole, on the basis of their performance as a human being, not on the basis of their gender, wealth, race, religion, nose shape or hair colour.
I don't rate my chances, though, in the present climate.
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I may be a Democrat, but she gives me the chills.
Perhaps by a year from now the electorate will have tired of her.
She's a feisty lady, that's for sure, I am just not sure that she stands for anything except gaining power.
Thanks for allowing me to trespass on your politics.
Jake
"I am just not sure that she stands for anything except gaining power."
Jake! You have characterized her in a single sentence.
You're a dazzling man.
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