Preachin' Politics pt. 3
Several weeks ago I began a rather light-hearted jaunt through the growing list of political candidates who are vying to be our next President. It is not my intention to endorse any candidate or party (I'll try to be an equal opportunity critic), but rather to dialogue a bit on politics - not as Pastor Darin, but as Citizen Darin.
Hillary Rodham-Clinton. Hillary Clinton. Hillary. You have some serious name recognition when people everywhere recognize you by three names, two names, or just one. Hillary (she prefers to use the one) doesn't care what you call her, as long as the prefix President comes before it! Have you not heard? She's "in it to win it" where the race for the White House in 2008 is concerned.
Not everyone is so thrilled with her fancy to be known by the brief moniker. Poking around her website http://www.hillaryclinton.com/ (going by the two names there) I found this comment left by a potential voter:
by Karing
2/23/2007 9:44:48 AM So I got in a discussion yesterday with a few of my girlfriends, and they were really upset by the way Hillary was using her first name and not her last name. They thought it was to girly and unprofessional. I said it didn't bother me, but how do you respond to this? When people voice their feelings ('I think its not professional', you can't say 'you're wrong it is professional'. You can't tell people what they think is wrong. Any ideas?
Karing... I'd advise your friends to be careful for characterizing someone who uses their first name as 'girly'. Perhaps they've heard of California's Governor, 'Ahhhnold'?
Back to Hillary... I mean Hillary Clinton. At her website you do find some information about where she stands on issues. I find that admirable in a day when so many politicians are waiting for polls to tell them what they should think. It's in the bio section there where she describes her Christian faith as 'faith in action'. She speaks of the spiritual influence of her mother and a youth minister in her formative years.
There are some parting shots I would take at Hillary for President. First, by now everyone has heard about the war of words launched by David Geffin where the Clintons and honesty are concerned. Rather than ignoring the statements, Hillary responded by dragging Barrack Obama into the melee. I feel like where Hillary is concerned, everything is a conspiracy. That would worry me. I'd love to see her disagree with someone without branding them 'an enemy' along the way. Additionally, it seems that in a handful of questionable settings over the years, Hillary has been eager to portray herself as having been 'duped' - the Whitewater scandal and the war in Iraq for instance. Rather than owning any possible mistake on her part, she has implies that others pulled the wool over her eyes, and she was totally oblivious. My concern? If a bunch of her business partners and George W. Bush can trick her, what awaits her with the likes of Hugo Chavez, Mahmaud Ahmadinejad and Osama bin Laden? Questions I'm waiting to see her answer.
By the way, I am so hip - I don't care whether she goes by one, two, or a hyphenated 3 names!
Next up: The Republican known by one name... Rudy.
Hillary Rodham-Clinton. Hillary Clinton. Hillary. You have some serious name recognition when people everywhere recognize you by three names, two names, or just one. Hillary (she prefers to use the one) doesn't care what you call her, as long as the prefix President comes before it! Have you not heard? She's "in it to win it" where the race for the White House in 2008 is concerned.
Not everyone is so thrilled with her fancy to be known by the brief moniker. Poking around her website http://www.hillaryclinton.com/ (going by the two names there) I found this comment left by a potential voter:
by Karing
2/23/2007 9:44:48 AM So I got in a discussion yesterday with a few of my girlfriends, and they were really upset by the way Hillary was using her first name and not her last name. They thought it was to girly and unprofessional. I said it didn't bother me, but how do you respond to this? When people voice their feelings ('I think its not professional', you can't say 'you're wrong it is professional'. You can't tell people what they think is wrong. Any ideas?
Karing... I'd advise your friends to be careful for characterizing someone who uses their first name as 'girly'. Perhaps they've heard of California's Governor, 'Ahhhnold'?
Back to Hillary... I mean Hillary Clinton. At her website you do find some information about where she stands on issues. I find that admirable in a day when so many politicians are waiting for polls to tell them what they should think. It's in the bio section there where she describes her Christian faith as 'faith in action'. She speaks of the spiritual influence of her mother and a youth minister in her formative years.
There are some parting shots I would take at Hillary for President. First, by now everyone has heard about the war of words launched by David Geffin where the Clintons and honesty are concerned. Rather than ignoring the statements, Hillary responded by dragging Barrack Obama into the melee. I feel like where Hillary is concerned, everything is a conspiracy. That would worry me. I'd love to see her disagree with someone without branding them 'an enemy' along the way. Additionally, it seems that in a handful of questionable settings over the years, Hillary has been eager to portray herself as having been 'duped' - the Whitewater scandal and the war in Iraq for instance. Rather than owning any possible mistake on her part, she has implies that others pulled the wool over her eyes, and she was totally oblivious. My concern? If a bunch of her business partners and George W. Bush can trick her, what awaits her with the likes of Hugo Chavez, Mahmaud Ahmadinejad and Osama bin Laden? Questions I'm waiting to see her answer.
By the way, I am so hip - I don't care whether she goes by one, two, or a hyphenated 3 names!
Next up: The Republican known by one name... Rudy.
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1 Comments:
Man, I am known by g or germaine... I never use my last name unless really necessary... and I have never been considered to "girly" and not necessarily unprofessional... of all the things they decide to voice an opinion about, they choose her name... that sounds a bit petty and girly to me...
Love ~G
By germaine, at 2/28/2007 2:49 PM
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