Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Hillary Clinton: corporate shill
I had intended to not write any more political blogs, but I need to express myself here:
Hillary Clinton served on the board of directors for Walmart while that company was cutting worker benefits. I do not like her and Bill's long standing enabling of Monsanto's push of genetically modified food and seeds that produce plants that generate infertile seeds - forcing many farmers in third world countries into bankruptcy. When she became a US senator, she and Fritz Hollings accepted very large soft money payments from Disney and promptly promoted the awful pro-Disney SSSCA legislation.
I just read yesterday that she is getting more defense industry PAC money than John McCain. Read between the lines on that one.
The problem that my country has is huge: being a military super power is just not a viable economic strategy. Spending more on our military industrial complex than every other country combined just does not pay for itself, but is making many politicians and their corporate masters a lot of money. So a fundamental flaw in Hillary Clinton's campaign for president is that not only is she herself a bad pick because I believe that she will keep our country on the non-competitive current "military super power" strategy, but even worse, she is unlikely to win a general election against John McCain - on the other hand, every poll that I have seen seems to indicate that Barack Obama could fairly easily beat McCain in a general election. Hillary Clinton is acting as a spoiler, an agent to get John McCain elected, and she is being enabled and supported by many democrats who are not clearly analyzing how to achieve their political goals. BTW, I like John McCain, but his current views on foreign policy make him, in my opinion, a poor candidate for president.
While I am not as excited about Barack Obama's run for president as my more liberal friends, he seems to be the logical choice for president.
Hillary Clinton served on the board of directors for Walmart while that company was cutting worker benefits. I do not like her and Bill's long standing enabling of Monsanto's push of genetically modified food and seeds that produce plants that generate infertile seeds - forcing many farmers in third world countries into bankruptcy. When she became a US senator, she and Fritz Hollings accepted very large soft money payments from Disney and promptly promoted the awful pro-Disney SSSCA legislation.
I just read yesterday that she is getting more defense industry PAC money than John McCain. Read between the lines on that one.
The problem that my country has is huge: being a military super power is just not a viable economic strategy. Spending more on our military industrial complex than every other country combined just does not pay for itself, but is making many politicians and their corporate masters a lot of money. So a fundamental flaw in Hillary Clinton's campaign for president is that not only is she herself a bad pick because I believe that she will keep our country on the non-competitive current "military super power" strategy, but even worse, she is unlikely to win a general election against John McCain - on the other hand, every poll that I have seen seems to indicate that Barack Obama could fairly easily beat McCain in a general election. Hillary Clinton is acting as a spoiler, an agent to get John McCain elected, and she is being enabled and supported by many democrats who are not clearly analyzing how to achieve their political goals. BTW, I like John McCain, but his current views on foreign policy make him, in my opinion, a poor candidate for president.
While I am not as excited about Barack Obama's run for president as my more liberal friends, he seems to be the logical choice for president.
Labels: politics
# posted by Mark Watson, author and consultant : 2:45 PM
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