runsfearless (not verified) says:

clinton could well be an intelligent moderate republican of the baker/chaffee template. left of bush on domestic issues, but that not much different than bush on foreign affairs. look at her voting record, her relationship with the military-industrial complex.

if clinton becomes president, the outrageous war in iraq, the saber-rattling directed at iran, and the lives, resources, and international prestige wasted in the the phony global war on terror will continue. the 'gwot' is a death spiral of endless war. that alone will destroy any domestic programs she may advance. her guns and butter premise is untenable. her environmental positions are after thoughts.

the media focusses on the inevitability of clinton as democratic nominee in the same way they are obsessed with britney spears. the frivolity of the press and its coronation of clinton, will fall away with an edward's win on iowa. if that happens, it will be a two way race. add to that the possibility of an obama endorsement of edwards after new hampshire, and clinton's campaign will implode.

from my perspective edwards is the transformational candidate. he has reframed the notion of an endless war on terror to an international police action, he has the best universal health care plan, environmental plan, and he has rightly linked structural poverty to our success or failure of the great american experiment. clinton is a small mind with small ideas. she wants to become president. besides that she has few goals and no imagination of what america should be in the 21st century. she seems driven to go after the 'vast right wing conspiracy,'and managing the status quo, rather than leading this country into the new century, invigorated and repairing the damage we have done to the world and ourselves over the past 50 years.

i urge those who are reluctantly being drawn to clinton because of the propagandistic notion of her inevitibility, to fight what is best and not settle for what is least.

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