Clinton Now Supports Obama?!
Clinton Now Supports Obama?! After around 18 months of telling us Barack Obama is unqualified to be President, Hillary Clinton has decided to abandon her quest to be President, and stand behind Obama.
So… does this mean she was wrong about him? Does it mean she was lying? Does it mean that she was right and telling the truth, but the American people are gullible idiots? If any of these three is true, then what makes her think she has the credibility to be his running mate?
- If Clinton was wrong…If everything Clinton said to discredit Obama was inaccutare (but she didn’t know it) then how can she be trusted to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency? How can she be trusted to make sensible decisions about war and peace, about healthcare and education, about jobs and the economy? She is apparently incapable of surrounding herself with good people, and does not, herself, fact check. No matter how subtle her ad hominem attacks against Obama were, they were still ad hominem attacks, and therefore, invalid, logically (to say nothing of being dirty politics).
- If Clinton was lying…I think we’ve had enough time spent with a pack of liars and theives in the halls of government. I think Barack Obama would be a fool to take on Hillary Clinton as his running mate if she was trying discrediting him and his positions on issues with lies. It seems to me that Obama represents fundamental change, away from “politics as usual”, and Clinton represents what Obama is trying to do away with. For him to then validate her position by taking her on as his running mate would be a change in position, and would be counter to the rhetoric that got him the primary victory in the first place.
- If Clinton was right…If Obama is indeed unqualified to be President, and/or wrong in his positions, then she would be a high-order hypocrite if she now pursuded the Vice Presidency as Obama’s running mate.
…and, anyway… Since Obama is the presumptive nominee, shouldn’t HE decide who he thinks is qualified to be his running mate and carry on his program of change if he is somehow rendered incapable of serving as president? I seriously doubt that Hillary Clinton is that individual.
Personally, I think the best and most honest thing Clinton could to to support Obama would be to go back to the Senate, and support his initiatives there.
Finally, the fearmongering in which she engaged is something I’d expect from Microsoft… or George W. Bush… not from, a “progressive” Democratic candidate for President against an esteemed member of her own party. That’s just stupid.