It is interesting to read the shrill responses.
"Soulless" "opportunist" ... gee, good thing no one else like that gets into politics.
How?
I keep hearing these views of her, but I don't see anything different to any other politician nor any real evidence to suggest why she's apparently the worst person in the Democratic Party...
I'm a Hillary supporter, but not a passionate one... but the level of histrionics in the attacks on her - really is pretty bloody ridiculous.
I'm guessing it's people who still believe the hype from 2008. That being, Obama was the left wing savior whereas Hillary was an evil right wing warmonger. Of course this was fairly silly, considering the Iraq War vote was the only major policy difference between them. People always talk about Hillary supporters being bitter, but it seems there's just as many bitter people on the other side, which is fairly strange considering they're the ones who won and have the least reason to be bitter...
We have to remember the context of the 2008 election. I think that Obama actually
benefited from being a fresh, untested candidate (ie lacking much of a political record that he could be held accountable for) who didn't have longstanding ties to Washington, D. C., and who could energize growing Democratic-leaning demographics (youth, African-Americans, urban liberals more generally). After all, people were really, really sick of the status quo in Washington-in
both parties. Even the Republicans were touting their "maverick" side (McCain) and put a total Washington outsider and political neophyte on the ticket (i. e. Sarah Palin).
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