Hillary as our candidate? by Kathy from MO

Insightful articles from Robert Reich on Hillary's recent attacks on Obama. Also an interesting take in the New York Times today on Dem candidates in red states like Nancy Boyda of Kansas who fear Hillary will be on the top of our ticket pulling everyone down. Many of us fear a Hillary nomination. In honesty, I think she would be fine as president. She is smart and certainly got a first hand look at the world and important issues as first lady. She has embraced some important social programs over the years. Sadly, while running for president she has sold out as a politician trying to appear hawkish to look strong on security and trying to look middle of the road on a lot of social programs that she used to believe in. She is saying what she thinks the right wants to hear looking ahead to the general election instead of saying what she really believes. That said, she would be millions of times better than what we have had for 7 long years! On her worst day, she would be better than Bush! However, in this year when Dems have good candidates to run and it should be a year we can recapture the White House, it would be terrible to get such a polarizing figure as our candidate. I have said all along that the Rethugs want to run against her. They see her as able to bring out their voters the way none of their weak candidates can. Many polls show that the Republican voters are very disappointed in their field of candidates. They are all flawed. However, Hillary is the one person who can unite their base! People will show up to vote against her. It is sad but true. I hope Obama or Edwards can make a good showing in the early primaries. They both seem to be gaining especially Obama. Hillary must be worried. Instead of taking the high road, she is looking childish and petty in her recent attacks bringing up anything she can, even his kindergarten aspirations! This does not go down well with voters. Instead of making her look tough, it makes her look desperate. It makes me hopeful that she is not inevitably our candidate as the media keeps telling us. We can do so much better.