Dem 7

For someone like myself who desperately wants change in our government, this debate was a winner. Senator Clinton bared all. If you saw this debate you peaked into a future with her as President and I didn't like what I saw. I was left wondering if this candidate really owns a soul. This was a sort of desert mirage performance, fading in and out of existence. Not exactly the makings of a future leader of the free world.
Some of the issues went like this. She kinda-sorta likes Gov. Spitzers plan to issue drivers licenses to undocumented workers, formerly known as illegal immigrants, who were formerly known as illegal aliens and why not three different licenses for three different categories of, well, them. But she doesn't want to burden the states because it's a national failure so lets let her do it from Washington, you know, like she did with health care!
Recently she said that President Bush couldn't pass his immigration reform because he had no more political capital. Trust me, these two share the same bank accounts.
Then there is her brilliantly simple fix for Social Security. That's it, fiscal responsibility. I wonder why no one ever thought of that before?
On the subject of releasing Presidential material from the national archives, she tried to attribute the delay to the bureaucracy at the archives. Maybe, but it's a big Government that she is trying to be in charge of and if as Senator she can't make something happen with the National Archive how can she run the government. Unless just maybe she's not quite telling the whole truth!
Then there was the so called Kyl-Lieberman amendment that she voted for that above all gives Iran's leaders more power to rally the support of the Iranian people. Oops. I think we all remember how fear spawns patriotism don't we. Also do you really believe that she cares if the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is a designated terrorist group or not? No, she's just pandering to the power brokers she believes are important to her election and acting tough again for political reasons, pure and simple. Btw why is Liebermans name last on this one? Just a few more guys who never served in the military beating the war drums.
Also did you notice that the fire that Senator Obama drew from Senator Clinton for his naivety and lack of experience in suggesting that we negotiate with Iran is all but forgotten. He just didn't use the right words. It's vigorous diplomacy silly, you were so close.
As Senator Dodd pointed out, polls have showed that 50% of voters say they would never vote for her. I bet that number wasn't trimmed much by this performance.