Primary day here... my view

[jay]

(reposted from a comment I made elsewhere)

After 7 years of George ("I'm a uniter, not a divider") Bush, I think the country needs competence first and foremost. While Clinton is tagged as the less-cool candidate, I think she has vastly more of a notion as to how to actually make the levers work.

I came to that orientation fairly recently, having swung from supporting Obama a month ago, to Edwards (after not seeing much substance in Obama's proposals, and becoming uncomfortable with the cult-like air around his campaign). And both Edwards and Clinton had reasonable space policy proposals, while Obama has promised to kill the lunar/Mars program and use the funds on other domestic spending. [My Saturday LJ post has a much longer discussion with links to each candidate's space policy.]

Once Edwards dropped out, it was clear that I'd be voting for Clinton. To me, too many feel-good platitudes from Obama and not much else there leave me seeing him as a left-wing version of GWB... albeit with better elocution. I prefer a more-hard-nosed, capable, less flashy candidate, myself. As well as believing that Clinton has much better space policy and a somewhat better healthcare plan. My 0.05. :)

Comments

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Barely even a first-term senator... he spent one year in Washington, then arguably spent most of 2007 out campaigning.

[geekchick]

Last time we elected a one-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois as president, he ended up doing a pretty decent job. ;)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Er... he was a uniter, too, but only after fumbling through six hundred thousand dead Americans or so... and considering the large advantages the North held in people, transport and industry, there may have been naivety and OJT with that guy, too.