Hillary Clinton scared me at tonight's debate on Spitzer's license plan.

I don't believe you can fault her because her husband cheated. My x-husband was an idiot and did alot of stupid stuff. It was hardly my fault. As far as I'm concerned she is the lesser of the evils. Who else would you put in there- I fear Rudy way more than I fear Hillary. I'm not interested in living in a military state like Rudy tried to run New York City.

Oh, I'm not faulting her for her husband's behavior. I don't like the way she blames everyone else for things. And, I don't like her support of illegal immigration and the fact that she seems to have too many socialistic viewpoints and that really scares me. Our country is in major financial debt and the Democrats keep wanting to instill more and more programs that our government is supposed to support and it's not realistic. Socialism has been proved to fail and I don't want someone in office who thinks that way. I agree with you about Rudy G., though. I don't want him in office either. In fact, I'm not terribly happy with any of the candidates on either platform. I just know that I don't want Hillary and her jerk of a husband back in the White House. Especially not with Nancy Pelosi in the Senate. She's really scary! She's using her power to help take away freedom of speech from anyone who doesn't agree with her views and anyone who is in favor of silencing people who don't agree with them is very dangerous to our nation's freedoms. People think that freedom can only be taken away in one lump sum but that's not what is happening in this country. Right now laws are being passed and people in power are using that power to little by little silence anyone who disagrees with them and that's dangerous for us all because where does it stop? And, also, who made them God and told them they could tell all of the rest of us how to believe and what we could think and speak? I can promise you that no matter how many laws they pass, I'm not going to shut up. Even if they send me to jail, I will not stop speaking out for what I believe in.

Here here, Whim! I'm with you in that same boat. I've been saying things on mylot too and you know I wouldn't be too surprised if something "happened". -_- With all the people you mentioned they...its hard to describe. At bare minimum they are just the typical stateside politician; only saying and promising things for votes and to expand the power of the government (and with that, their own power when they get office). So its almost classic Machiavellian politics, but its not the full package as described in The Prince. In the end though, its just a bunch of empty flapping heads that get nothing of real positive substance done. Its either nothing gets done or things go backwards.

I think that what we need to do is start from scratch. Dump all our current politicians and have elections where the campaigns are not done with special interest money. Give good honest people a chance to run on a even playing field. Because you are right- the people in office are not qualified to lead - because they are being lead around by the nose by special interest.

You are absolutely right. Everybody here in New York knows this driver's license thing is about the 08 vote. But the thing is that she doesn't need the vote in New York. Rudy calls himself New York's mayor but that's only going to fly elsewhere in the country- NOT IN NEW YORK. So she really doesn't need to support this bill. I'm glad she tried to straighten it out and say no she doesn't support it but she still seemed iffy. Sure we've got to something about illegal immigration but we don't start by rewarding them breaking the law with a license.