Not Really Feeling It

In the 2000 Presidential election the Republican Party had the opportunity to elect a true American hero, John McCain. Instead they gave a former Connecticut prep school cheerleader with a low IQ and no credible experience for the job. If you look at Dubya's resume, he has been a failure or has done poorly at everything he's attempted, including his current job. And if Hillary becomes President it will in part be due to America's disgust with the current President.

I am sorry, but I am not a Clinton supporter, I can't support people I don't think are genuine, and I cannot see them as genuine people. I cannot support a Patriot act that intervenes into the privacy of people's homes so that "Bill can get his fill", and I cannot support HIPAA compliancy that he signed into law which does the adverse that it is supposed to.

It was supposed to help us, those at the bottom, with insurance, and allowing us to keep insurance as we move to a new employer, and it got rehashed and rewritten into something that protects the President and government at all costs to us as citizens.....I can't back that..........as an American citizen I feel taken, usurped, molested, and I hold President Clinton responsible, as well as President Bush because he signed this all into law........we should all be allowed to consent to the use of our bodies, and our papers, and minds. We should not be held under the threat of retaliation and loss of ability to earn a living if we object to how we are treated. The government, if it errs, has a responsibility to take responsibility for itself and stop using us as it's prey, its victim, and its entertainment and trying to make up fake allegations about people to cover for its own greed and need for power at our expense, I am not seeing anything different, and it is disappointing.....thank you for allowing my opinion.........Stephanie-skd500

Hillary embodies the essense of hypocracy. She owes Tammy Wynette and apology.

Stand by your Maaannn!!

It seems like everytime this presidential election comes up in conversation someone always asks me, "wouldn't you like to see a woman as president?" Being female myself there is an apparent expectation that I will respond affirmatively to this point and thus have to support Hillary. Well, yes in point od fact I would like to see a woman in the office, but with that said I don't know that Hillary is the one I would want. There has just always been something about her that has as just always bugged me on what I can only describe as an instinctive level and regardless of the issues which people seem to insist should be should be the focus I just can't trust Hillary when it goes against my intuition. From the little I read here, this could be an insightful read on what the origins of where the internal reservations I have about this candidate come from.

Unfortunately we seek strong male leadership from men who deal with adversity and push forward like soldiers who learn to face tragedy and trudge on to the bitter end for a higher purpose, and yet we are critical of these same traits of character in a woman. Past presidents have dealt with turmoil in their marriage and in their families, and whether that turmoil included alcoholism or depression or a myriad of other problems that ordinary citizens deal with in their ordinary lives, the public generally regards the ability of a leader to cope with personal hardship while maintaining dignity and poise in the public eye a virtue and not a vice. People expect women to act and react emotionally, and the expectation is both illogical and stereotypical. Many women are strong and capable and are able to go on and accomplish those things which must be done even when the world is crumbling in around them. Hillary Clinton has shown that she has the constitution to overcome great obstacles without becoming irrational. People who are truly committed to public service necessarily have the ability to set their own needs behind a greater good. Rather than criticizing a leader for showing stoicism in the face of crisis, we should admire Clinton's ability to put the needs of her country above her own.

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This article is so typical of mainstream media. Do Americans really need to be reassured that Hilary Clinton is not an emotional wreck? Is it really necessary to think of her as a masculine woman (unemotional and rational) in order to understand the concept of a woman, yes! a woman with political power?

I'm an outsider looking in, I do admire Hillary Clinton, she's seem very strong almost the way men do things. Common people you cannot hate her for that, after all she's doing things the way men have done for centuries and it work for them...and its about time the US experience a female president...you'll need it with all the mess that was made around the world to clean up,
Thank you.

This article is so typical of mainstream media. Does America really need to be reassured that Hilary Clinton is not an emotional wreck? Does the public really need to imagine her as unfeminine and perhaps like a man (unemotional and rational) in order to understand a woman in a position of politcal power?

lindacousin...........you must be just stupid. insecure.....yes i would be insecure if she gets in the white house. everyone in the US will be more then insecure..... Everyday she changes her mind. During the debate she said I will not pull troops out before the end of her 1st term. The other day she said she would within 30 days. 2 days later she said within 60 days. DO YOU remember all the times as 1st lady when she would answer....."I DONT REMEMBER" and "

Lindacousin get a life and get real. You have no clue un less you been there done that and had the same relationship she di. EH not going to happen she wont make it.

Enough of the same old same old stuff. We might as well vote for Manson she is just as cold and hard hearted as he is . And so callous too. She gets in and we are done as a nation and leading country.