Hillary: It takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush

Best line of the century!

Hillary Clinton while giving a speech in Iowa, stressed the fact that we need someone who is experienced in office, not someone that will need on the job training.

Read this article from the AP.

She absolutely knocks it out of the park with this speech. Here's an excerpt:

"There seems to be a pattern here. It takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush."

"There is one job we can't afford on-the-job training for — our next president. That could be the costliest job training in history," Clinton said. "Every day spent learning the ropes is another day of rising costs, mounting deficits and growing anxiety for our families. And they cannot afford to keep waiting."

She hits the nail right on the head. Hillary has already had plenty of experience in the white house - 8 years longer than any of the other candidates. For the first few years the other candidates will be in office if elected, they will be just taking cues from advisers because they haven't learned the role themselves yet. And that's what happens. When someone is elected president, they hire a group of advisers to tell them what position they should take on a number of policies. Eventually they start making their own decisions, but this is a very crucial time in our history where we can't afford to wait around.

She also brought up a good point of rising costs. We need someone that's going to come in there and lower taxes to relieve the burden from the American citizens that Bush has put us all under. Taxes are killing mainstream America, and we need some real mainstream solutions to get this country back to something we can all be proud of.


Edit: a grassroots Hillary supporter sent us an e-mail to inform us that Hillary would most likely raise taxes. But my point still stands: we need someone with real leadership and real experience that can take on the toughest struggles that we face today.

The Media is in a frenzy because McCain dares not to participate in the smear machine

After yesterday's victory of getting Senator McCain to denounce the character assassinations and call for the return of actually debating the issues, the media is getting in a frenzy because a politician dares not to play by their rules. You would think a call for civility would be a breath of fresh air in this presidential race. You would think that America would rejoice in the fact that there just might be some hope that we can have an honest and respectful debate. Apparently we gave them just a little bit too much credit.

This headline from Time says it all: Is McCain Too Soft on Hillary?

Apparently wanting to get to the real issues instead of the smear tactics is a sign of weakness in the eyes of the media. Actually, they just might realize it's a sign of strength and they're getting worried they may have lost their control over the their ability to keep the presidential race a circus which brings in more ratings. More importantly, the circus environment allows for the smear campaign against Hillary Clinton to continue.

Read these excerpts from the article:

McCain's seeming reluctance to overtly engage in the kind of overwrought attacks on Clinton that have characterized the campaigns of the other front-runners first became apparent in early October.
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McCain's unwillingness to make the "anyone but Hillary" argument endangers one of the most substantial rationales he makes for his candidacy: the idea that he, alone among the Republicans, can beat Clinton in the general election.

Read this carefully folks. Time magazine is conveying the message the only way to beat Hillary is to engage in "overwrought attacks." I don't know about you guys, but to us that sounds like an admission that the opposition simply cannot beat Hillary on the issues alone. The very fact that Time magazine feels that smear tactics are necessary proves this beyond a reasonable doubt.

Our favorite line from the Time smear piece: "It is temping to applaud McCain's restraint."

This is a very carefully worded sentence here folks. The word tempting has a hidden negative connotation. What Times is essentially saying is that you probably might be lured into believing restraint and a lack of bottom of the barrel tactics is a good thing, but in fact, that is necessary to beat Hillary.

What would you think of a person that said "pay no attention to that man with dignity and respect, we must continue the character assassinations." I would expect that any rational human being would find this notion to be preposterous. The fact that this backwards idea that integrity is weakness and childish behavior is strength confirms our suspicions that we've had all along: The opposition (in cahoots with the media) have no intention of having a mature discussion of the issues. They've determined that character assassination is the only way to win, and anyone that undermines the smear campaign must be also met with character assassination himself.

It's about to get dirty folks. It's about to get really really dirty.

By the way if you haven't already, please make a note to cancel your subscription to Time. Actually, don't waste any time making a note, just do it.

Don't forget to mark your calendars for election day

It is imperative that you mark your calendar for the 2008 presidential election. If people don't show up to vote, then all of our grassroots efforts to ensure that Hillary Clinton is elected president will be all for nothing. We've put in a lot of blood, swear, and tears into this folks. Let's make this as meaningful as we possibly can. We put in the energy, we better see some results. Election day is November 4, 2008. Mark your calendar in red marker so you don't miss it.

We here at Vote for Hillary Online predict there will be some shenanigans going on with the ballots. We will be bringing up this topic later on as we get closer to election day, but we need to keep this issue at the front of our consciousness today. There will be trickery in place that will attempt to get you to vote for another candidate, when you intend to vote for Hillary Clinton. In the coming months we will be holding workshops that will instruct you what to look for and what you can do to ensure the candidate you vote for (Hillary) is the candidate you meant to vote for (Hillary).