Thursday, January 03, 2008

Campaign Tactics

Just a quick note on presidential election campaign tactics.

"We’re a nation at war in a dangerous world," Clinton tells Iowans in what she calls her “closing argument.” It does get a bit better after that, but that’s her opening salvo.

That’s the kind of “leadership” we’ve had for the past six years and more, do we really want four more years of fearmongering from the White House?

In a blog I was reading the other day the author was ticking off the points in favor of the candidates and one of the criteria was “willing to do anything to win.” He graded Clinton highest in that category, saying that she seemed very willing to do anything to win and that that makes her the best candidate. I just can’t get on board with that. I think honesty and decency and ethics count. Rove and Bush and company were willing to do anything to win, and they won (well, they took the prize) and look where that got us.

Clinton does appear to me to be willing to do anything to win the presidency, including the use of Republican scare tactics, and to me that is reason to vote against her, not for her.

Not that I was going to vote for her anyway, of course.

Update: Thursday 9:30PM


I can't find the quote, but there was something on an MSNBC crawler about Hillary Clinton saying that today was a "great day" because so many people turned out to vote in the Democratic primary, or caucus, or whatever. The fact that only 29% of them voted for her apparently didn't upset her a bit.

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