Things That Just Piss Me Off

I watched the democratic debates and have been following the campaigns of each candidate in both parties as much as possible. In this post I just want to talk about Hillary Clinton.

First, Hillary Clinton. There are a few things that concern me about her.

1. She says she doesn’t want this race to be about gender. She doesn’t want women to vote for her just because she is a woman. Then she goes on into “even though only a woman can know about what women go through”, etc. She says this in every single appearance. She says it often enough to make sure that the race is partly about getting women to vote for her because she is a woman.

It’s like someone being applauded onstage and them continually saying, “oh, no please, no more applause, please, really, no more applause, really.”

Hillary Clinton keeps telling women, “oh please no, don’t vote for me because I’m a woman, please, really, don’t vote for me just for that reason. I know I know, I know women’s issues better because I’m a woman, but oh no, please, really, don’t vote for me for that reason, really.”

2. The “My 35 years of experience thing” is really getting tired. She says it over and over so that people will think she actually has 35 years of experience in government. She doesn’t. Let’s clear that up once and for all.

Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the United States Senate by the people of New York on November 7, 2000. That means as of the writing of this blog post, she has exactly, 7 years, 2 months, and 22 days experience in government.

Other than that, she has been the wife of someone who has experience as a Governor and as a President.

If your husband is an auto mechanic and has been for 20 years, then you decide you want to be an auto mechanic and do so for 7 years, you can’t claim you have 27 years experience as an auto mechanic.

Experience is nontransferable. You don’t get experience through osmosis.

The rest of her experience is in the private sector as a lawyer. She sat on some boards of nonprofit organizations. I’ve put together boards for nonprofits before. Having the wife of the governor on the board lends creditbility to the charity. So it does not surprise me she got to sit on some boards.

She also sat on the board of Wal-Mart. Having the wife of the governor on their board wasn’t a bad move for them since their was state legislation that could have stopped Wal-Mart from opening stores in places where it would put mom and pop businesses out of business. None of that passed of course and Wal-Mart can open anywhere they want.

3. Bill Clinton is a former President, not just Hillary Clinton’s husband. There is supposed to be some dignity in being a formaer US President. Bill Clinton seems to have forgotten that in favor of supporting Hillary at all costs.

She is counting on women to vote for her and counting on everyone thinking that by electing her, they are re-electing Bill Clinton. Electing Hillary Clinton is not the same as electing Bill Clinton. She doesn’t have a good record of her own to stand on and hoping voters will forget that because Bill is outn there talking for her. She is hoping voters will believe his record is also her record. It’s not.

4. She voted for the war. Nuff said. She says she regrets it. Ok. But you still voted for the war. Since then you voted the way Bush wanted you to on Iran and other issues having to do with Iraq. So as much as you regret voting for the war, it doesn’t seem to affect you voting on things that might lead to another war with iran. If you regretted helping Bush start the Iraq war, you would not be helping him start another war in Iran.

5. 2 Family Dynasties have been in office for 20 years. For 20 years, either a Bush or a Clinton has been in office. Electing Hillary could mean another 8 years. If a Bush runs and gets elected again after that, it could be another 8 years. That would be 36 years of the white house in the hands of two families.

Time to break that chain. It’s dangerous. It’s nepotism. It’s not democracy at it’s finest. No more Bushes. No more Clintons.

Stumble it!