Democratic National Convention '08

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

It might be the easy way out, but if any new administration would simply be guided by doing the exact opposite of what George Bush might have done, and spend 8 years undoing all of his misdeeds, I would consider that a damn successful presidency.

And I'd consider it a failure.

Undoing some of the damage is a part of what I want, but what I'm more interested in is repairing the damaged climate of "If you disagree with me you're my enemy" that LEAD to those failures. Clinton would not have been the President to do that. Even if she wanted to. She's just too polarizing a figure in the eyes of too much of this country. Her support came too much from polarized people on the left, and her detractors are made up of too many polarized people on the right. At least Obama's got a CHANCE, coming in with far less baggage (deserved or otherwise) than Clinton (no one can come in with zero baggage, of course).