HRC is a disgrace #2

Desperation rears its very cynical, ugly head. How can newspapers like The Economist endorse this vindictive woman? She looks anything but collected, calm, "presidential."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/24/hillary-clinton-mocks-bar_n_88194.html

There are many reasons why a lot of us support Obama. I happen to agree with military theorist Thomas PM Barnett: that Obama presents the best possibility of helping to 'create a future worth living in.' For many of us, this election is about a lot more than rhetoric, it's about policy and approach, and an understanding of a globalized, interdependent world. Billary Clinton is over, it's a failure. We hate your tactics, your inflated sense of self worth and accomplishment, your cynical and manipulative approach to the American public. We are sick of hearing the same Left and Right demagogues who dominate the national debate screech at pitch levels, no matter that they receive the same monies from the same lobbyists and industries. You have derailed the national interest, however vague that concept may be. It is you, Hillary Clinton, and your kind that have led us into costly, insane wars in the heart of the Mid-East, who allowed our military to lock itself into a conventional mentality in a post-Cold War world, who gave this President carte-blanche during his entire tenure, who supported an economic system that encouraged consumer debt and a widening class divide. It is you Hillary Clinton, and your kind, who sat on the boards of corporations like Wal-Mart while paying lip service to unions, corporations who not only replace concepts like "community" with "homogeny" and "society," but who actively despise their own workers and willingly use sweat shop labor from our dear friends, the Chinese, in order to undercut local businesses that do not happen to have the wives of governors on their boards. It is you, Hillary Clinton and your kind who view American politics as a game, and who view morals, positions, facts, records, data as temporary reference points -- as fleeting as the digits on the back of a baseball player's jersey. "Hope" is nothing but a catchphrase to you. "Change" is something you will mimic but never believe in. "Vision" is a concept that you have never understood.

But we've learned a lot about your character in the past 16 years, Hillary, as much as you rely on polls and analytical machinery to craft your persona. Your inability to define yourself, to present a vision of America, a future worth creating, is why independents like myself could never be for you. But it was because of your willingness to support the Second Gulf War so that you could seem tough that I will always be against you. You cannot even admit that your YES vote for the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 gave the President the damn authorization to use military force against Iraq! I've had enough of you Hillary Clinton, and as the past 11 primaries have shown, I think many of my fellow Americans agree.