A CNN comment

[bobquasit]

I suspect that everyone is sick of my Hillary/Obama posts. I'll try to stop making them. But I want to copy this CNN comment here, because I don't know if it will survive moderation:

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I was an Edwards supporter, but I've noticed a few things that I keep seeing from Hillary supporters:

1. "We don't know anything about Obama's positions - he's a cipher!"

He has a website, and it has detailed position papers. Google for Obama, and there it is. Or better still, here's the link:

http://www.barackobama.com/issues/

If you don't want to bother, then please be honest about that and stop pretending that he has no positions.

2. "Hillary has EXPERIENCE!"

Experience doing what? Sleeping in the White House? George W. Bush has more of that kind of experience than she does! Did that make HIM a great President?

Or do you mean that she has more experience in the Senate? But she doesn't have THAT much more experience than Obama, and by that criteria John McCain beats them both, twice over, COMBINED. Does it make sense for Democrats to say that experience is the key qualification in this election?

And exactly what has Hillary's experience accomplished? She voted in favor of the Iraq war authorization, the bankruptcy bill (a gift to the credit card industry at the expense of the working poor) and the Iran "terrorist" bill - which practically INVITES Bush and Cheney to attack Iran. And she sponsored the pandering and idiotic flag-burning bill. Plus her campaign managed to blow through tens of millions of dollars in the biggest display of fiscal irresponsibility in DECADES.

Is this the sort of experience America needs?

3. "If you vote for Obama, it must be because you're black. Or you're a guilt-ridden white liberal. And you're a sexist pig because you're voting against a woman."

This is the sort of argument that really pushed me into Obama's camp. I'm not voting against a *woman* - I'm voting for THE BETTER CANDIDATE, irrespective of race or gender. By constantly playing the race/gender card, the Hillary campaign and their supporters have been dragging the Democratic Party down into the mud. And we'll all pay the price, if we're not careful.

America desperately needs great leadership to bring us back to the sane, fiscally responsible, non-torturing democracy we used to be. I don't know if Obama is the one who can take us there. But I think he'll try - and I'm very sure that neither John McCain nor Hillary Clinton will.