HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT

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One thing I have noticed when talking to people at work, or even reading the comments here is the majority of women are lining up behind Clinton and the majority of men are lining up against her. Not that it surprises me, in fact I think I said that would happen quite a while ago. This should turn out interesting should she get the ticket since the male female population is almost a ⁵⁰⁄₅₀ split.

I'm not going to pull an MS and try to speak for "all women" but from reading HotD's posts, I don't think she's at all lined up behind Clinton. She's one of the candidates that she's considering among many (on both sides of the aisle).

From what I've seen so far there are policies that some of the candidates espouse that I agree with and then they go and say something or espouse a different position (on another matter) which I totally DISAGREE with. Nothing new...I feel like I've been settling for what I think is the lesser evil for a long time now.

This is part of what bothers me about all the Clinton haters/conspiracy theorists (from an article in The Atlantic that lists some of the "real" scandals surrounding the Clinton's and then provides you with a link to this group that accuses her of killing cats and stuff):

With Hillary Clinton leading the field for the Democratic nomination for president, every Clinton scandal—from Whitewater to Clinton’s State Department emails—will be under the microscope. (No other American politicians—even ones as corrupt as Richard Nixon, or as hated by partisans as George W. Bush—have fostered the creation of a permanent multimillion-dollar cottage industry devoted to attacking them.)

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arch...zi/396182/

It reminds me of the "birther's" and the vitriol directed at Obama (before he even became president). It was hard to give much credence to their legitimate questions/concerns because their opinions were so clearly clouded/based on hate.

I see the same thing occurring with Hillary. She's well and truly hated (and has her own industry to fan that hate!). Unfortunately, it works to the degree that....Obama's entire presidency, if he said "up", Republican's said "down". His entire presidency (and actions in congress) have been NOT necessarily to do what's best for the country but not to let Obama "win" on anything (big or small). I'm afraid that same attitude might follow Clinton in to the White House and we'd have another 4-8 years of not shit getting done.