Pros and Cons of the leading Democratic Presidential Candidates - 11.29.2007.1
I want to remind everyone that on Saturday @ 2:30, TV One will have a live webcast of the Heartland Presidential Forum, featuring several leading Democratic Presidential candidates, and Republican candidates as well. This forum will feature candidates answering questions from the audience (and I don’t expect that any candidate will be planting questions for this).
I will be covering this Forum on Saturday, and you can expect a few posts from me, for TV One and everyone.
Considering the nature of the forum, and the fact that most Americans have not been following the candidates over the past year as much pundits and political bloggers, I thought that a short Pros and Cons of the leading Democratic candidates would be helpful. I intend to have a similar list for Republicans shortly.
I am only focusing on the leading candidates because of the short time until the primaries. I want to note one candidate that will be at the forum that I will not be doing a Pros and Cons for. Dennis Kucinich was the only candidate of either party to-date that answered any questions on Reparations for African Americans. His answer was for reparations. Every other candidate has refused to even speak on the subject.
With that noteworthy positions stated here is my list of Pros and Cons. I hope it helps those at the forum that get to ask questions, and everyone that will be voting. Please let me know your thoughts as well. [I am trying to be neutral, but of course that is not always possible in all issues. You may disagree with some of the items I list under either category. Let me know your reasons why you disagree, or agree, in the comments.]
- Wife of President Bill Clinton
- Long-time Healthcare advocate
- Determined
- A lawyer
- A current 2nd term Senator
- Well known internationally
- First female Presidential candidate with a chance
- Forgave the infidelity of President Clinton
- Various polls state ~1/2 country favors her
- Very liberal in most all policies
- Pro Abortion
- Pro-abortion
- Has never directly run or owned any business
- Entered elected office after career of President Clinton
- Initial attempt to pass Healthcare reforms failed horribly
- Consistently appears to hold no actual position on most policies
- Speaks like a lawyer
- A female candidate
- Various polls state roughly ½ the nation strongly dislikes her
- Staff has at least 2x planted questions in her public appearances
- Had committee member attack Republican candidates by surprise at CNN/YouTube debate
- Very liberal (supported MoveOn.org in Gen. Patreaus ad)
- Has received the most money from lobbyists and institutions of any candidate of any party
- Took $1 million from wanted fugitive
- Involved in multiple scandals
- Pro-Illegal Immigration
- Anti-death penalty
- Anti-school vouchers
Senator Hillary Clinton:
Pros
Cons
Continued in part 2...
Labels: Heartland Presidential Forum, moveon.org, political debate, President Clinton, presidential candidate, Senator Hillary Clinton, TV One
posted by M. Vass @ Thursday, November 29, 2007
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1 Comments:
This was originally submitted at www.presidentialraceblog.com where I am a contributing author. The following response was copied verbatim.
Written by Person of Reason
“Dennis Kucinich was the only candidate of either party to-date that answered any questions on Reparations for African Americans. His answer was for reparations. Every other candidate has refused to even speak on the subject.”
After I heard this question I had to restrain myself from throwing something at the TV. The idea that someone would even consider THINKING about that question just reconfirms the opinion that the rest of the world has of us. That the people of this country are uneducated and are detached from reality.
If there was someone still alive today that suffered through that atrocity that this country condoned, I believe that they should be the most privileged citizen. But for someone to try and cash in on someone else’s suffering makes you just as bad as the slave owners.
They profited from the suffering of the African, Chinese, and South American slaves of this country. How can anybody say that they are any different if they ask reparations for a PAST generations suffering? The time that reparations SHOULD HAVE happened didn’t and that is something that historians and future generations will always look back on as a missed opportunity that this country had to try and right or at least relieve some of the wrongs that were done to the people that were forced into slavery.
There is a BIG difference between being discriminated against and being put into slavery. The reason that no politician will really answer this question is because they are afraid of being seen as politically incorrect and the uneducated in this country calling out “racism”. This country will never move fully past the race issue till people (black and white) stop living in the past and start looking and MOVING to the future.
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