Trying to Like Hillary Just Got Easier

So far, although I try to remain open to any truth as it comes, I'm an Obama supporter, but I've got no serious problems with John Edwards, Joe Biden, Al Gore (should he decide to run, which I think he might if he wins the Nobel Prize tomorrow...)., and maybe others...

But I do have a real problem with Hillary, and I admit a great part of it is irrational and I hope to overcome it, because basically I just don't like her and I'm not sure why. OK, you scare me Lady
I love Bill Clinton and wish we had him back in office, but Hillary is a whole different person; she's always just put me off. Which is childish and rude of me and I need to get over it.

The rational part of my dislike of Hillary Clinton as a candidate for President right now is that she voted to give our idiot-child President the authority to attack Iraq,

..which was effing insane as far as I'm concerned, and she's been way too slow to admit that her vote was wrong and that she was cowed into going along with the herd, which has led to the ongoing fiasco she now hopes to resolve....

Furthermore, I'm afraid that as the first woman president Hillary in particular may continue to bend over backward to be "macho" enough to make stupid people feel safe, rather than doing what would be wisest and most constructive. I'm sure we've all observed that "trying to be macho" is a dangerous and destructive approach to many things, especially foreign affairs.

And I swear it isn't that she's a woman (hey , I'm a woman!!), or that it's not time for a female President because it's way past time- I just feel that she's the wrong woman.

For example, I can't imagine that Barbara Jordan or Ann Richards would have voted to allow that war in the first place if they were asked, because they had great maturity, solid wisdom, and nothing to prove, but sadly they're no longer with us. (If either was here and running for President, I'd support her, but Hillary I worry about.)

However, when I read the following quotation from Senator Clinton, she definitely moved up a notch for me, because I thought it was so well said...

“I believe in evolution, and I am shocked at some of the things that people in public life have been saying. I believe that our founders had faith in reason and they also had faith in God, and one of our gifts from God is the ability to reason.” ~ Hillary Clinton

Is that not a beautifully simple way to say it? Anyway, here's more from the NYTimes article (link below that) via the newsletter of the "Texas Freedom Network" :

"In a stinging critique of Bush administration science policy, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York said yesterday that if she were elected president she would require agency directors to show they were protecting science research from “political pressure”, and that she would lift federal limits on stem cell research. "

Hooray! Free the stem cells!

"....Her remarks yesterday, at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, amounted to a spirited attack on President Bush for waging what she called a “war on science” that has allowed political appointees to shape and in some cases distort science-based federal reports....Mrs. Clinton said she would restore the office of White House science adviser to the higher status it held in the administrations of her husband and President Bush’s father, and would encourage Congress to revive its Office of Technology Assessment, an advisory group that was shut down in 1995 after Republicans in Congress withdrew its financing."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/us/politics/05clinton.html?_r=1&oref=slogin