Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton is the only person running for nomination that we really know anything about! We know so much about the Clinton family, we can almost guess the color of their underwear. Senator Obama is such an untried unknown individual who is likened to men in our past who were shot! Senator McCain is old, having had cancer a couple of times, with all those angry war wounds. What is a person to do?

I would have voted for John Edwards, but he needed to be home with his wife and family. He has the best balance of foreign, domestic, legal and economic understanding of anyone who ran, and he was a decent American. He and his family would have improved our international recognition and respect.

In his absence, Hillary Clinton is the next best person for the job, in my opinion. We all know the Clinton family. They have been investigated, audited, criticised, spied on, followed and in the public eye for over 2 decades, and all their frailties are well known. Senator Clinton has the experience to handle the press, pressure of office, people around her behaving badly, foreign affairs, military awareness, domestic and international economic awareness, and still stay focused on "we the people." The Clintons are well known and well liked in foreign communities. They can restore our reputation and honor internationally, and do so quickly.

Think of the Obamas in the White House, well, only the Senator. Michell Obama said she planned to continue working in the Chicago area and keep the daughters in their current school. So, we will have a "single" man in the White House, representing our country? Dignitaries will be so impressed when the president's wife doesn't even show up to support her husband? And, I believed Michell Obama was being honest when she said she had not been "proud" of the United States, especially after experiencing their reverend, you know Rev. Wright and his message of African Theologies. Twenty years of hearing that kind of preaching would have to have had some effect on the Obama perceptions. Senator Obama chose to criticize his white grandmother, and what she might say, why not the other way around? Then when Senator Obama would not place his hand over his heart (everyone else was) and would not wear the U.S. flag pin, I had to wonder what was wrong with him, and his understanding of the basic ways in which United States citizens express respect and love of country. I think Senator Obama and his wife could learn a decade of diplomacy, raise their girls, and learn and how mainstream America works, then he might be a good president.

John McCain and his wife Cindy have some problems, too. Senator McCain has a short temper and some angry war wounds that cause him to live in the past, not so much in the future, or even the present. He has a clear understanding of what it is to be an American, and to love his country. His wife, Cindy McCain, is a powerful and successful business woman, she is a very classy lady and honors her husband by being by his side. Cindy McCain would bring a culture and atmosphere to the White House and the presidency that we haven't experienced since Jackie Kennedy. I only wish she had not experienced drug dependency and the behaviors that go along with the condition. The only problem is that John McCain is old, out of touch with economics of his own state of Arizona, the country and the world. He has had cancer two times and then there are all of those emotional war wounds.

I have come to the conclusion that if Senator Obama is the Democratic nominee, Senator McCain will have my vote. The only way this would not come to pass, is if Senator Clinton is VP on the ticket. In this relationship, when Obama is killed, a responsible party will be there to pick up the staff.