13/11: Why I Am Afraid of a Hillary Presidency
Category: Politics
Posted by: an okie gardener
The thought of Hillary in the White House frightens me. And I am not talking about Bill roaming the halls at night in search of young interns.
1. Hillary is an internationalist. She favors international organizations over national interests. To see what such a mentality leads to, look at the EU: rule by unelected burearcrats. She does not seem to prize the hard-won liberties of our Anglo-American heritage.
2. Hillary is duplicitous, ruthless, and believes herself to be above the law. See Whitewater, FBI files, and character assassination.
3. Hillary's vision for America includes a much larger and more powerful central government, leading to the continued decline of localism, individualism, and the family.
4. Hillary will nominate judges who share her views. We will be living under the rulings of these jurists long after 4 or 8 years.
Do the other Democratic candidates share her views? In part they do. But no other one candidate brings quite the same package she does.
1. Hillary is an internationalist. She favors international organizations over national interests. To see what such a mentality leads to, look at the EU: rule by unelected burearcrats. She does not seem to prize the hard-won liberties of our Anglo-American heritage.
2. Hillary is duplicitous, ruthless, and believes herself to be above the law. See Whitewater, FBI files, and character assassination.
3. Hillary's vision for America includes a much larger and more powerful central government, leading to the continued decline of localism, individualism, and the family.
4. Hillary will nominate judges who share her views. We will be living under the rulings of these jurists long after 4 or 8 years.
Do the other Democratic candidates share her views? In part they do. But no other one candidate brings quite the same package she does.
A Waco Farmer wrote:
Seriously, Gardener, you honestly think Hillary is more of a big-government, internationalist liberal than John Edwards or Al Gore?
And Obama is the great unknown. On paper he is the most liberal of the candidates. But I sense that you sense a different outlook. I sense it too. As I have said forever, Obama is a very attractive candidate. He is a magnetic figure who exudes an air of competency, horse sense, and good will. I want to believe in him.
In that way, he reminds me a lot of Jimmy Carter in 1976--which many folks might argue did not turn out so well.