Hillary thinks that she knows better than all of us. She thinks that the poor, uninformed and irresponsible electorate needs a parent to keep us from making irresponsible descisions. I sort of feel like I am Chelsea in 1994.
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Hillary thinks that she knows better than all of us. She thinks that the poor, uninformed and irresponsible electorate needs a parent to keep us from making irresponsible decisions. I sort of feel like I am Chelsea in 1994. Andrew Sullivan quotes Her Majesty as saying, “”I am cursed with the responsibility gene.” Oh poor you Hillary…such a burden it must be to be responsible for all of us weary, unsophisticated and less intelligent citizens. Sullivan argues that Hillary may be carving out a position on the war that could win some points in both the primaries and the general election. While we might argue about whether she has the responsibility gene or not, I agree with Sullivan that she is missing whatever DNA is necessary to be likable by anyone but those that are closely aligned with her ideology. I think Hillary mistakes her “responsibility gene” for a gene that results in condescending paternalism and is going to have a tough time creating any kind of dialog with a majority of American voters if she continues to lecture us like we are disobedient children.
I don’t think it actually matters all that much who is president. Most of the events (good and bad) attributable to the resident of the White House are largely the result of randomness, but I think a change in party would provide at least some superficial benefit like, for example, to make the rest of the world hate us just a little less. However, I really don’t think that Hillary is the answer. But I don’t think that any major candidate, on either side, will be able to really have any positive impact on our country and its standing in the world. In Hillary’s case, if she were to run, win the nomination and the general election (and, if I were a betting man, I would bet against those chances as things stand today), the novelty of the first female president would quickly fade and I think we would soon realize that she, like any president of any gender or race, is really just a self-interested egomaniac except with a nasty habit for telling us how to live our lives.
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