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Originally Posted by HockeyIlliterate
Hillary would be a horrible president.
She shifts positions more often and more quickly than a 2-dollar prostitute, and she has absolutely no real interest in helping the "little guy" out. Even worse, she believes that she "deserves" the presidency, and has no regard for the truth or the law. She can't be trusted to make good decisions, and she can't be trusted to even support the decisions that she does make.
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Politicians change their minds. Indeed if they are actually serving the will of the people they should be changing their minds as the will of the people changes...provided it's in a progressive direction (my thought). Sometimes they need to stick their guns for what is best overall and I agree in that she hasn't had the backbone I'd like to see. But I'm not sure Sanders has ever had the chance to display that he has...he's always an outsider with little power to effect true change.
She has spent her entire adult life in the public eye and has changed her mind and made mistakes. Yes she is self serving but every person running for president is...even Bernie. People can be unsatisfied with Benghazi (then again no one in the general population should expect to know what exactly happened) but they were as unimpressed with the GOP hammering on it and admitting it was just a political stunt. In addition even before here very good performance in front of the committee less than 50% were unsatisfied with her answers...nearly all republicans. Afterwards I'm not sure what the numbers were but I suspect they swung pretty significantly.
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If I were to vote in a Democratic primary, I'd vote for Sanders--I don't agree with much of what he proposes, but at least he seems honest about what he says and believes in and there is little doubt about what kind of person he is. With him, what you see is probably what you get.
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Sanders like Biden are known as two very straight forward consistent guys. They have both changed their minds on several issues. Sanders is currently changing his mind on guns control for instance. But yes he seems the nicer person. BUt he majorly screwed up I think with the universal health care stuff this past week. Yes it's what should happen but it inexplicably scares americans.
To the above...no there are no good GOP candidates. A few years ago I thought Christie might be able to move to the center and be successful but that clearly didn't happen. Well and his governorship was plagued with crap the past few years. Kasich is about the only guy but he doesn't stand a chance. The rest are buffoons and really shows how people don't actually listen to what is being said or do their homework. If so none of these guys would get more than 20% of the vote but they will get close to 50% just because they are running for the GOP.
Rubio's letter....he's making a last ditch effort before the evangelical driven primaries to get that evangelical vote. BUt it's embarrassing that a person running for president penned that ####.
Trump....538 has a new piece on how much Trump is disliked by general election voters. It's a huge hole with independents. Sanders is actually the only candidate on either side with a net positive favourability rating.