Nem said:
JWeinCom said:
I think you misinterpreted me.
I support (most) of those things. My issue with Hillary isn't that she didn't support them, but that she didn't support them soon enough.
Bernie for instance spoke out against the Iraq war before it happened, for gay marraige before it was popular, and for raising the minimum wage.
Hillary Clinton voted for the Iraq War, supported the defense of marraige act, and had nothing to say on minimum wage. She only supported those things after the rest of the party started supporting them.
So while it's good she supported them, it seems she did so more because she wanted votes than because she actually supports them. I'd rather have a candidate who is forward thinking and does the right thing before it's the popular thing.
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So, another post i don't understand.
So, you blame her because she changed her opinions to better ones? I'm not saying anything about Bernie, but stubburnly holding on to skewed perspectives is the sign of ignorance. Having the clairvoyance to admit you were wrong is a sign of intelligence.
I really can't see where she is in the wrong here. She would be a worse candidate if she was holding on to those socially outdated positions.
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She would indeed be a worse candidate if she was still holding on to those outdated positions. She would be a better candidate if she never held them in the first place.
Good for her for finally supporting gay marraige, but it would have been far better if she supported it in 1992, when she had the ear of the president.
It's fine that she recognizes the Iraq war was a bad idea. It would hae been far better if she realized it before voting for it.
The old saying is that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I certainly want someone who admits when they make a mistake. More importantly though, I want someone who won't make many mistakes to begin with.