I don't want to hear anything about religion! If and when it comes down to these two, which is most likely to provide us with the best President?
2007-12-26 16:25:02 · 30 answers · asked by go2seek 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
Sorry, Obama really isn't go to get the nod this time. Maybe next round.
2007-12-26 16:36:11 · update #1
Did someone say Hillary didn't flip flop?
2007-12-26 16:47:47 · update #2
Mitt Romney.
His personal decision-making process is to gather as much information about the matter as possible, listen to every side (and if one side doesn't have a person to argue it, he finds someone to), and then make the best choice he can.
It's the model that worked for him as founder and CEO of Bain Capital, where he was responsible for the financial backing of Domino's, Sports Authority, Brookstones, Staples, and a host of other businesses. It worked again when he saved the 2002 Olympics, taking a scandal-ridden, practically bankrupt enterprise and turning it into a rousing international success. It worked again while he was Governor of Massachusetts, when he took a multi-billion dollar budget deficit and turned it into a surplus by the time he left office, and this With an opposition Congress.
We need a president who listens to opposition, gathers evidence before deciding, understands the economy, is experienced with turning disaster situations into successes, and has proven he can work as an executive with people on the other side of the aisle. When has Hillary Clinton proven that she can do any of these things?
2007-12-26 16:45:25 · answer #1 · answered by Paper Mage 5 · 4⤊ 7⤋
Definately Romney. It's not that I don't support Hillary as a woman. It's that I don't support her platfrom. Socialized health care? When the government takes controll of anything it becomes more expensive and less effective. Have you ever stood in line at the DMV. It's ridiculous. After waiting 45 minuites in a slow moving line because the people who work there have no incentive to move faster, you find out that you don't have form 42j. Please go to the next line. Would government health care be any better? Beside that, Hillary is shady. She runs on a platform of government programs to help the people (communism), but I believe that all she really wants is power!
2007-12-27 02:02:08 · answer #2 · answered by smokey 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Undoubtedly Clinton. Just the fact that she is married to Bill Clinton is enough reason to vote her in over Romney.
Romney has almost no substance beyond attacks on other candidates. He's flip-flopped on all the ethical issues and doesn't have much of a platform on Social Security. The bottom line is that he's one-dimensional.
2007-12-27 01:55:38 · answer #3 · answered by na n 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I believe Romney will be the best bet. Clinton has already failed at socialized health care and is even less charismatic than George Bush. Romney has international experience in business and was a successful governor of one of the most liberal states. This shows he can bring both party's together instead of Hillary's preferred policy of political divide.
2007-12-27 01:52:37 · answer #4 · answered by analyzer 1 · 2⤊ 3⤋
They are not really that far apart on issues. The only real difference being their stand on the war but both have been overly nuanced on this issue as well. Their health proposals are basically the same. If I was forced to chose I would chose Hillary because she seems more resolute than Romney in her view points she doesn't flip flop like him although both will say whatever to get elected.
2007-12-27 00:41:45 · answer #5 · answered by D C 4 · 4⤊ 4⤋
EDITED:
Hey Smokey, you've never had to wait in an emergency room before, or at a doctor's office before? Of course you have. I certainly have.
Have you ever had to fight tooth and nail with an insurance company over a claim that they are supposed to pay, but are refusing to? I have.
Have you ever needed prescription medicine, but couldn't afford to pay for it? I have.
Of those two choices, I'd take Clinton. We know what to expect of her. I don't trust her, but I'd have an idea of what to expect.
I don't trust Romney at all.
Corporations have been allowed to run amuck with little to no accountability the past eight years.
The national debt has increased to over 9T.
The trade deficit has increased.
The price of oil has more than doubled.
Health care costs are ridiculous.
Romney is going to change all that? I don't think so.
2007-12-27 01:35:35 · answer #6 · answered by Tim H 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Romney. He is more practical for the job for his business history and the fact that he really made Massachusetts a better state. And Clinton can't be president off an internship!
2007-12-27 01:51:21 · answer #7 · answered by Ryan T 2 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Romney
2007-12-27 01:38:05 · answer #8 · answered by Shawn T 1 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Clinton.
Clinton regains Democratic lead in Iowa
By Andrew Ward in Washington
Published: December 27 2007 02:00 | Last updated: December 27 2007 02:00
US presidential hopefuls returned to the campaign trail yesterday after a pause for Christmas with the latest opinion poll showing Hillary Clinton regaining the lead among Democrats in Iowa a week before the state's first-in-the-nation caucuses.
Earlier polls had the New York senator locked in a dead heat with Barack Obama in Iowa, with John Edwards close behind.
But an American Research Group survey released on Christmas eve showed the former first lady leading Mr Obama, the senator for -Illinois, by 15 percentage points, up from four points in the same poll a week earlier.
The survey offered reassurance to Mrs Clinton after a tough few weeks during which her campaign appeared to lose momentum while Mr Obama surged back into contention.
After months spent trumpeting her strength and experience, Mrs Clinton has spent recent days campaigning alongside her mother and daughter across Iowa in a belated attempt to soften her harsh public image.
But the main narrative to the Democratic race remains the perceived choice between Mrs Clinton's greater experience and Mr Obama's promise of change.
While the ARG poll showed Mrs Clinton back in command, the survey found the Republican contest tightening into a dead heat between Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, and Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas.
Mr Huckabee had opened a double-digit lead in Iowa over recent weeks, bolstered by support from Christian conservatives. But Mr Romney, who had led in the state for most of this year, appears to be clawing back lost ground.
Iowa's caucuses on January 3 mark the first of the state-by-state contests that will determine each party's nominee in next November's presidential election.
Candidates hope a strong performance in Iowa and New Hampshire, which holds its primary election on January 8, will propel them towards their party's nomination.
In New Hampshire, polls show Mrs Clinton with a narrow poll lead over Mr Obama in the Democratic race, while Mr Romney heads the Republican field with John McCain, senator for Arizona, gaining ground in second place.
Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, is trailing in fifth place in Iowa and third in New Hampshire but hopes victories in several states that vote later in -January and early February will catapult him back into contention for the Republican nomination.
2007-12-27 01:16:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
Clinton at least has a platform, weak as it may be. Romney is 110% sleaze and can only appeal to religious bigotry.
2007-12-27 01:49:10 · answer #10 · answered by kevin t 4 · 2⤊ 3⤋