--- In [email protected], Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On May 19, 2008, at 8:20 AM, authfriend wrote: > > > He doesn't *want* to have to confront the fact, for > > instance, that the vast majority of those who have > > encountered Hillary close up have found her exactly > > the opposite of an "arrogant, insufferable bitch": > > friendly, warm, empathetic, deeply concerned with > > other people's needs, and with a terrific sense of > > humor. > > Red herring, Judy. So what? Her policies support neither > empathy nor concern with average Americans, as per the > letter Rick posted.
Not true, by a mile. First of all, the "letter" Rick posted was almost all about *Bill Clinton's* policies, not Hillary's policies. Whether the statements made in it are true, I don't have the resources to research. I have reason to suspect this was not an anguished cry from the heart of an innocent mother but a professional political hit job, so I'm rather dubious about its veracity. (If you were to read the comments to the piece, you'd see I'm not alone in this suspicion.) Just for one thing, the "letter" decries Hillary's plan to centralize control of food safety, when in fact this is exactly what food safety advocates have been demanding for quite some time; they see the current decentralization as *the* main barrier to making food safer in this country. Yet the writer of the "letter" attempts to make the idea sound sinister. Second, Hillary's own policies are very much in tune with people's needs. Only somebody who hadn't looked at them could possibly say otherwise. On the off- chance you might want to do your homework: http://www.grist.org/feature/2007/08/09/clinton/ http://www.hillaryclinton.com/news/release/view/?id=4306 http://www.pfb.com/government-affairs/candidate%20platforms/Clinton- Plan.pdf http://tinyurl.com/5nmmww As far as food safety specifically is concerned, you might want to read this piece from Salon's War Room comparing her response to the big beef recall in February to that of Obama: http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/02/19/recall/ The writer has a particular interest in food safety issues and is not a Hillary supporter. His conclusion: "Obama's response...was almost entirely devoid of substance or concrete solutions; it made Clinton look like good-food guru Alice Waters by contrast." > > That image of Hillary would be too disturbing. > > Yeah, I'm sure that image has Barry quaking in his proverbial > boots. Indeed. That's why he reacts so violently when I defend Hillary and freaks when I point out that the Hillary-haters have a veracity problem. He doesn't *want* their veracity questioned. You suffer from a similar problem, as do Tom and some of the other fanatical Hillary-haters here. You're actively threatened by positive views and facts about Hillary. Obviously she isn't immune from criticism. But reasonable people should want to hear both sides of the story; people of integrity should not want her--or anybody else--to be smeared by falsehoods and distortions, no matter whom they support.
