{"id":82,"date":"2007-12-22T13:06:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-22T19:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/22\/why-i-do-not-support-hillary\/"},"modified":"2007-12-22T13:06:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-22T19:06:26","slug":"why-i-do-not-support-hillary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/why-i-do-not-support-hillary\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I do not support Hillary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could support Hillary Clinton for President.\u00a0 Not only do I think the time has come for the USA to be governed by a woman, I think someone with her values could be very valuable to our country.\u00a0 However, since she was criticised for her role (and input) in the health care reformation that the 90&#8217;s never saw through to fruition, she&#8217;s been too cooperative with the people that stand in her way.\u00a0 In order for real change, which is what we need, we need someone who knows how to work with people (even ones that s\/he doesn&#8217;t like and stand in the way) without being too cooperative.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What I need from a presidential candidate are these qualities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>passion<\/li>\n<li>a strong sense of justice for all, no matter what may make them a minority (everyone, in one way or another, fits the definition of &#8220;minority&#8221; and &#8220;majority&#8221; simultaneously, depending<noscript>Sie erhalten $ 1 komma 000, mit denen Sie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokerneu.de\/gratis-online-poker-spieler.html\">gratis online poker<\/a> k\u00f6nnen.<\/noscript> on what aspect of the person you look at)<\/li>\n<li>a respect for human rights and the UN&#8217;s Universal\u00a0Declaration of Human Rights<\/li>\n<li>a respect for international governing bodies, their rules and treaties, and other international agreements that enable peace<\/li>\n<li>fearless problem-solving; not being afraid to recognize the good qualities that other systems or societies may have while being able to incorporate some of those to fix the problems that the leader has been unafraid to recognize in our society\/systems<\/li>\n<li>honesty<\/li>\n<li>the ability to admit his\/her mistakes and learn from them<\/li>\n<li>a clear perception of maintaining the separation of church and state<\/li>\n<li>the ability to find new ways to make our government work for the people and new ways of involving the people in the work of the government<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, that&#8217;s a short list, but\u00a0in no way complete.\u00a0 I just don&#8217;t think Hillary can live up to my expectations.\u00a0 And if the democrats did elect her to be their candidate, there&#8217;s no way she would win the election in November.\u00a0 Have you seen the poll numbers on this stuff?\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a while since I did, but I can&#8217;t expect them to have changed too much.\u00a0 The fact is that the great majority of Americans won&#8217;t vote for someone for president unless\u00a0he is\u00a0a white Christian male.\u00a0 The polls show that women, racial minorities, and\u00a0followers of religions other than Christianity (even Catholics get less votes than Protestants) are plain unelectable.\u00a0 It&#8217;s sad, but there are enough hicks out there with ideas of racial and gender superiority who just can&#8217;t vote for someone who doesn&#8217;t believe in their god.\u00a0 Personally, I think they can shove that non-existent god up their asses, but what do I know?<\/p>\n<p>Hillary just can&#8217;t make it, in my opinion.\u00a0 But I hope that either Obama or Edwards can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I could support Hillary Clinton for President.\u00a0 Not only do I think the time has come for the USA to be governed by a woman, I think someone with her values could be very valuable to our country.\u00a0 However, since she was criticised for her role (and input) in the health care reformation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,35,40,71],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-culture","tag-ethics","tag-future","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3aAvV-1k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jen.jllocke.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}