I am reluctant to even give her space on my blog. [Go Newt!]
I can't help but to meet her official announcement to run for President with a big "woop-dee-freakin-doo". {Go Newt!}
As a Republican, I'm struggling to see this as an entirely bad thing. It's going to absorb a lot of funding in what will ultimately be a losing effort. It's going to be so great to watch her lose her own primary. Just wait for the first debate when the significantly more charismatic Edwards and Obama embarass her. And even if she somehow makes it to the general election (because the way the primaries are setup are brutally unfair and need to be changed immediately), she's only going to galvanize the disenchanted conservative base. (Go Newt!)
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http://www.stephenbainbridge.com/2007/01/iron_hillary.html
She ain't no Maggie Thatcher.
- Patrick
Not a Hillary fan. I wish Newt would run because while a lot of people hate him, I really respect him. And the other Republican candidates are crap. I'd rather vote Libertarian than vote McCain.
But we'll see. Hillary has been embarrassed in debates before, but she plays the gender card and the men debating her just ending up looking bad.
I would giggle if Hilliary ran for president. It would be even worse than that one election where only one state voted democrat...well, maybe not that bad, I mean, California, New Jersey and New York are pretty off the wall, I bet she'd get them. And probably all those little north eastern seaboard states (including Delaware).
It makes me sad that the people of my home state can not see her for what she is: a carpet bagger... except that she's a democrat... from the South. I always took New Yorkers as being smart enough to know when they're being used. I'm ashamed that my mom voted for her.
Go Edwards!! (I'm a big fan of pro-life demo's . . . this makes him like, literally, one in a million)
PS: I despise Newt Gingrich for serving his wife with divorce papers while she was laid up in the hospital with cancer; he then left his second wife for a congressional aid that was 23 years younger then him. Sorry, my red friends. But with a voice that bellowed so loudly about "family values", this seems to me to epitomize the sort of hypocrisy that Our Lord blasted. I would just as soon not vote as to vote for him.
PSS: Please Lord, hear our prayer . . . not Hillary.
Are you sure Edwards is pro-life?
http://www.issues2000.org/2004/John_Edwards_Abortion.htm
Paula, can you confirm?
Dang you Steve Lamp. You burst my last political bubble!
My comments on Newt stand (and are verified).
John Edwards stated: "I support a woman's right to choose and believe this that right is constitutionally protected. I also support funding for family planning."
He voted NO on a bill would make it a criminal offense to harm or kill a fetus during the commission of a violent crime.
He voted against banning abortions on military bases.
He has voted to expand stem cell research.
In general, he votes pro-choice. However, he did say that he felt partial birth abortions were "gruesome," we absent the day they were voted on, and his absence helped pro-life rights.
This is why I hate this issue (and the gay marriage issue). Now individuals who love John Edwards for other reasons like:
1. He cosponsored the Fair Paycheck Act which would remedy wage discrimination based on gender.
2. He is committed to ending violence against women and has supported major bills to provide funding for women who were victimized by trauma or sexual abuse.
3. He CARES TRULY CARES about poverty and people who are suffering from poverty.
4. He has a pretty decent healthcare plan.
5. He is VERY pro-environment. He voted against the Alaska drilling and has tried to get the president to rethink his pollution policy changes.
6. He has a solid record on voting for positive education issues and reforming the school system.
7. He support affirmative action and disagrees with President Bush's stance on the University of Michigan case.
8. He voted against a bill to increase penalties for drug-related crimes, which is good, because if you have to go to jail very often, you'll see that it is full of individuals who need rehab not prison time.
9. He voted for a bill to create juvenile drug records and for another one which would raise the penalty for powder cocaine to be in line with crack cocaine. (Basically so rich people who can afford powder coke will face the same penalties as poor people who buy crack. Let's end class issues and discrimination when it comes to drugs.
10. Oh yeah, he's been married for decades to a woman he truly loves and has three beautiful children (his fourth child, a son, Wade Edwards, was killed in a car wreck at the age of 17).
... will vote against him because he believes that the Constitution gives women the right to choose to terminate their pregnancy.
The problem here is 1) that a lot of people who believe that abortion is morally wrong and something one should not do, also agree that it is protected by the Constitution and because everyone in our country is not a Christian and does not believe it to be wrong, we should permit it women to choose what they want to do. It's that separation of church and state concept. I am fairly confident that that is John Edward's stance as well. He has openly opposed partial birth abortions due to their gruesome nature.
2) There are people who these two, abortion and gay rights, are literally the deal breaker issue for candidates politically. Once they hear a candidate say, "I am pro life and I don't want the gays to marry each other." That's all they need to hear. It's okay if the candidate doesn't care about the poverty stricken or has a shady war history as long as he's pro-life/anti-gay marriage.
I really wish we could all branch out a bit from these two items and find something like the war, that affects us all, to concern ourselves with...
Also, before Hynes starts spitting out some form of scary conservative quotes at me... I just stated Edward's views on abortion, not my personal ones, because Steve asked what Edwards abortion record is. You do not have to agree with a candidate on every issue to vote for him or think he is what America needs or at the very least that he is better than the other options we have before us.
I am also VIOLENTLY opposed to the death penalty and along with that death in any form, the war in Iraq, and the Patriot Act, all of which John Edwards supported.
That doesn't mean I don't still believe John Edwards will serve America best.
Oh and Erin, I resent your comment that Hillary is from the south. She was born in Chicago, Illinois which makes her a Yankee. We refuse to ever even pretend that she rises to the high standards southern ladies set for ourselves.
Bill Clinton, however, is from Hope, Arkansas. He is a whore, but he is from the south. This is also partially why southern girls prefer that Yankee accent.
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