Hillary...You Gotta Love Her?

Undecided about Hillary Clinton? I'm not. She is my 1st choice for President of the United States. I admire her. I respect her. But, no, I do not, necessarily, like her, if you use that term to mean warm, cosy feelings.

Judith Warner's column is a good explanation of how many of Hillary's contemporaries feel about her. While she does not evoke any venomous dislike as is described in Judith Warner's column for me, Hillary, likewise, does not exactly warm my heart.



One of the things that happens with age and maturity is your choices are less often based on what you like and what feels good (although that will always be true of some choices), but they are more likely to be based on what you know is best. Your head choices start to outnumber your heart choices.

The cover story of the the June 3, 2007 issue of the New York Times Magazine confirmed that my choice of Hillary for Prez is a head choice. This country has been ravaged and ruined for the last 7 years by a soulless, unimaginative, uninformed figurehead that believes himself to be a leader. You don't send a boy (Barack Obama) to do a woman's job. It is best not to send one who leads with his heart (John Edwards) to do a job that needs a superior head.

I love Obama, he would likely be my next choice in 2016 (supposing Hillary in 2008 and repeat in 2012...quite a stretch). Even more than Obama, I have a place in my heart for Edwards, but not this time. We need a "mama bitch", as a good friend said, to clean up this mess.

Take some time, read Hillary's War. You'll see what I mean.