Are We Ready For a Woman President? Really?

@revelette2,

nope

@ehBeth,

In what way is it nope?

maxdancona

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If you objectively compare the criticism she is receiving with most other candidates, it is more or less equivalent. If you compare the criticism of Hillary Clinton with the exceptional nastiness launched at Barack Obama (some of which was from Hillary supporters), Hillary doesn't even come close.

snood

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If you think you're totally objective in these discussions then you're deluded.

ehbeth

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yup

calling her Killary is just the norm. all presidential candidates have been called murderers Rolling Eyes

ehbeth

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The poster snood was responding to said something about the criticism being equivalent. That wasn't snood.

me

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No, he just said max was not objective after max said the level of criticism Hillary receives is no where near what Obama receives, then you agreed by saying "Yep".

ehbeth

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nope

Yep, It was like I said, if not please explain. Or not as you choose.

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@glitterbag,

Based upon her poor performance as a Senator, Head of State , she would not get my vote. I did not appreciate how she used NY as a launch pad to the Senate. She is a liar and has no credibility and can not be trusted with sensitive information.

She is past her prime and the Democratic Party should be ashamed to have her as a candidate when her time past 8 years ago.

It appears the Democratic Party is now the party of no new ideas, but no new candidates.

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@woiyo,

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It appears the Democratic Party is now the party of no new ideas,

That has been clear for a very long time. With as silly as the R's are at times they at least are trying some new things at the state level. Also the imminent implosion of the EU is going to be a very big problem for D ideology, this idea that the little people can be muscled into good order by an authoritarian state. If the D's want to stay relevant they best get their brains in gear.

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@hawkeye10,

I'd argue that the Democrats are trying a lot more things at the state level including things that are more experimental and far reaching. Legalized drugs, higher minimum wages, physician assisted suicide, etc.

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@revelette2,

I was simply saying that anyone with opinions that passionate either for or against a candidate is deluded if they think they are totally objective. You read that to mean I was commenting on whether it was correct that the criticisms of the two candidates are alike. I was not commenting on that at all.

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@revelette2,

Objectively speaking, I am the most objective person here.

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I'm as nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof.

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@Lash,

Lash wrote:

I'm as nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof.

Lash! where you been?!? Yup, I bet you are nervous. Bernie has a lot he could gain from this. I don't see Hillary as having as much to gain, but a whole lot to lose. You see it like that?

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@engineer,

I suspect that you dont know what you think you know. Colorado is a pretty R state, and support for legal pot in Washington got wide support from the Right.

Large min wage hikes we dont how good or bad an idea that will turn out to be. Get back to me in three years on that but my guess is that long term it will be on par with Merkel inviting all the world to come live in Germany, that it will be seen by the historians and the people both to have been a very bad idea.

Re suicide, it is the R's who are pushing to keep guns legal, dont tell me that they are against state facilitated suicide, they simply demand that the citizen decide for himself, that the state should not have the power to decide.

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@snood,

Hillary has been doing so badly that frankly if she seems to be human, easy-going and not partially complicit in the Holocaust, she can gain. If she is mildly deferential to Bernie, she scores. Depending on how she explains her left-ward shifts, she can score or tank. She's married to the nerviest "explain-er" in contemporary American politics...

If the wider voting public sees an old Jew and knows nothing about the man- we take a hit in polls before digging out. Anything can happen. 😳

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@Lash,

Thrilling!

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@Lash,

I am thinking, sadly, you might be right. All she has to do really is not do too badly, which she won't.

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@snood,

OK, understood. However, aside from his passionate beliefs, do you think he was right or wrong about the level of criticism being much higher for Obama than it has for been for Hillary (which was his main point after all).

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Here's the low and dirty as I see it: Hillary's to lose. Bernie would have to be the second coming to win this first contest polling-wise.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/13/opinions/gergen-hillary-advice-from-sam-snead/index.html

Tonight's introduction may be a great start for Bernie, but the first messy step on to an uphill climb is most likely.

I know he can do it. I have faith that he might shine tonight, but my instincts are tonight is Hillary's to lose.

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@Lash,

Sanders wins if he pulls Clinton to the left. Without him, she would be tacking right for the general election instead of taking lefty stands that will be hard to repudiate later.

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@engineer,

She'll repudiate it in a second without a thought. So says me.

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@engineer,

Hey engineer. I don't think Bernie "wins" if Hillary shimmies left; I think the country wins.

Many people think Bernie's only function is to move HRC left. He sacrifices himself on the altar of honest politics - gets HRC to grasp her clammy hands around a couple of lefter policies, and once the dust has settled, she walks it back as she's done so often.

Country fucked - Bernie fucked - HRC laughing at all of us in the same Oval Office mirror Monica Lewinski used to wipe Bill's jizz off her bottom lip.

Only if people know what a liar she really is does she not "win points" tonight.

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@Lash,

Lash wrote:

Hey engineer. I don't think Bernie "wins" if Hillary shimmies left; I think the country wins.

Many people think Bernie's only function is to move HRC left. He sacrifices himself on the altar of honest politics - gets HRC to grasp her clammy hands around a couple of lefter policies, and once the dust has settled, she walks it back as she's done so often.

Country fucked - Bernie fucked - HRC laughing at all of us in the same Oval Office mirror Monica Lewinski used to wipe Bill's jizz off her bottom lip.

Only if people know what a liar she really is does she not "win points" tonight.

There are times where it is uncomfortable to recognize just what a disgusting human being you are, Lash...or even that there are humans as disgusting around.

Too bad you did not stay a far right conservative. You fit in much better over there.

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@revelette2,

revelette2 wrote:

OK, understood. However, aside from his passionate beliefs, do you think he was right or wrong about the level of criticism being much higher for Obama than it has for been for Hillary (which was his main point after all).

Yes, yes, yes! Okay? - I think Obama had more negative, disrespectful, nasty, racist, degrading, defamatory **** heaped on him than on any president or candidate for president ever.

BUT I hesitate to concede that point in this particular discussion because I don't want to obfuscate or otherwise dilute the point of this thread - which was asking the question of whether we as a country are ready to elect a WOMAN as the POTUS. To me, comparisons to Obama seem moot in that context.

The comparison with Obama seems to be being forced here, I think, to minimize the fact that (even though the strength of numbers of misogynists is arguable) there still remains a contingent that won't vote a woman into power just because of her gender.

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