About Hillary II

This is the second edition of About Hillary and contains additional reasons for supporting Hillary’s bid for the Presidency.

Personally, I like Hillary Clinton. Why?

1)       I do believe, it takes a village/community to raise a child to become an adult who is a responsible member of the community.  Anyone who is interested may go the page, It Does Take a Village at my website, were I expound on my reasons for believing, it takes a village to raise a child.

2)      She has gumption:

a)      She had the gumption to risk offending many in what was her natural political base by supporting the invasion of  Iraq.

b)      She also had the gumption to risk offending those whose main issue is Iraq and who supported the invasion by saying Lieberman would not have her support if he ran as an independent candidate for the Senate in Connecticut in 2006

3)      She not only knows our health care system is a mess, she tried to do something about it.  While her attempt to straighten it out in one fell swoop was not successful, it has not made her shy away from the subject, and she is willing to support lesser measures aimed at making a better level of healthcare available to some even though problems will still exist.

4)      She has enough character not to sink anywhere near the level of political muckraking many of her detractors have.

5)      She has the inner fortitude that made it possible to handle the Monica matter with the kind of dignity of which that few women in a similar position would have been capable.

6)       She has shown that she is capable of representing a broad cross-spectrum of the electorate without catering to either extreme and making the majority of her constituents feel they are being ignored. Her re-election to the Senate by the People of the State of New York is proof of that.

7)      She has the courage to publicly admit that she is capable of error.  She has shown that courage by saying that if she had known then what she knows now, she would not have supported the invasion of Iraq.

8)      She has the courage to run for President of the United States as a viable candidate who possesses personal knowledge of how vulnerable the occupant of the Presidential hot-seat is.

9)      Being of the female gender, I would be less than honest if I did not admit that  the thought of have a woman become President of the United States would please me.

10)  The candidates in the April Democratic debate were confronted with a question about what they would do if they became President and  two U.S. cities were subject to nuclear attacks on the same day. Both liberal and conservative pundits agreed Hillary’s response was the most decisive, most Presidential,  and sounded like it was being answered by the Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces.

11)   Despite assertions that Hillary’s election would widen the philosophical divide in our nation,  the post-debate reactions supported what I have suspected for some time. Hillary is the candidate that has the best chance of beginning the healing process. Both Pat Buchanan and Chris Matthews were praising her and for both of them that was very uncharacteristic.  Buchanan made it clear that he was not about to abandon to Republican Party to vote for her, but his admiration was clear as was his fear that she would beat any of the current Republican hopefuls.  Why? 

When it comes down to brass tacks Pat is among the more moderate of the right leaning Republicans and his own admiration of her confirms her potential for broad appeal and increases the likelihood that a fair number of Republican would cross party lines to vote for her as well as make her the choice of most independents.  If she get those votes she won’t need the extreme left’s vote to win.  That vast majority that occupies the center will have elected one of their own and Hillary Clinton will be the next President of the United States.