@ossobuco,
Bless your heart ossobuco. Are you Japanese decent? I don't know..it just came to my mind. It might be your screan name...
Anyway... I see you'r intuition is correct, and is trying to tell you something. But ... California - 'wrong' state to grow up, and a specially to shape your political views, for very obvious reasons. So the fact you still managed to preserve your common sense deserve some recognition. That's only in respect to Hilary. I have not read any of your other posts, but here you are right on the money. If Obama almost destroyed this country with his incompetence and stupidity, Hilary would make a final touch with her greed and very dangerous views.
We would quickly get sold and become irrelevant country, probably Brasil-like.