English conservative says - I want Hillary as president

[quinnox]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/11/01/do0101.xml


By Boris Johnson


You know, I never thought it would come to this. Over the past 24 hours I have been trying to imagine the kind of person I want to follow George W Bush into the White House.

I have been scanning the faces of the competitors for what some have called the most open presidential race for years, and I have screwed up my eyes and tried to work out who should be in charge of us all.
Who should have their finger on the nuclear button? Who should be Commander-in-Chief of the American military, the hugest and most lethal killing machine in history?

I hum and I brood and then to my amazement a face seems to form in my mind's eye. She's got dyed blonde hair and pouty lips, and a steely blue stare, like a sadistic nurse in a mental hospital; and as I snap out of my trance I slap my forehead in astonishment.

How can I possibly want Hillary? I mean, she represents, on the face of it, everything I came into politics to oppose: not just a general desire to raise taxes and nationalise things, but an all-round purse-lipped political correctness.
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To express approval of Hillary Clinton is to invite fury from my friends in the American Republican party.

To ask the reader to support Hillary means asking you to forget all those worrying allegations that Ambrose Evans-Pritchard used to report so brilliantly in these pages: the funny goings-on with the White House travel office, the anomalies in the position of poor Vince Foster's gun, the curious business of the drug-runners at the Rena airfield and the Whitewater real estate imbroglio.

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But with the deepest respect to Rudy, he has one disadvantage over Hillary. Unless I am much mistaken, the Clinton marriage is still standing, a shell-scarred monument to the triumph of hope over experience; and the nub of the matter is that I am prepared to pay the price of supporting Hillary just to get Bill Clinton once again padding over the shag pile carpet of the Oval Office, even if it is only to bring his wife a cup of tea.

It seems so long ago, but do you remember how the world felt in the 1990s? There was a time when it was possible to support America exuberantly and unashamedly, and part of the reason was that the Presidency was held by a man of high intelligence and terrific political skill.

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I listen to Dubya starting to rev up the rhetoric against this member of the "Axis of Evil", and I cannot for the life of me see what good can come of it. When I hear the Bush White House proposing to bomb Iran, I yearn for someone with the wit to offer a more sensible approach.

[LeftishBrit]

1. It shows how evil and insane Bush is..

when even the buffoon Boris Johnson comes across as sane in comparison!


'It seems so long ago, but do you remember how the world felt in the 1990s? There was a time when it was possible to support America exuberantly and unashamedly, and part of the reason was that the Presidency was held by a man of high intelligence and terrific political skill........

I listen to Dubya starting to rev up the rhetoric against this member of the "Axis of Evil", and I cannot for the life of me see what good can come of it. When I hear the Bush White House proposing to bomb Iran, I yearn for someone with the wit to offer a more sensible approach.'

I never thought I'd ever say this, but Boris...Johnson...is....right...(there! that was a very hard phrase to get my fingers to type on the keyboard!) Yes, just occasionally he's right. Still don't want him as mayor of London, however!

[progpen]

2. Someone who took a peek into the future once said,

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)


We have arrived.

[iverglas]

3. it's the lead item on his website now

http://www.boris-johnson.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964, New York City)<2> is a British Conservative Party politician, journalist and former editor of The Spectator.

Known for his eccentric persona, he is Member of Parliament for Henley and was for a time front-bench spokesman as Shadow Minister for Higher Education, until the announcement of his intention to stand in the London mayoral election of 2008. Boris was chosen as the Conservative Party's candidate on 27th September 2007.

He is occasionally referred to as 'BoJo' or 'Bozzer' (an example of an Oxford "-er") in the UK tabloid press and also by his colleagues in the Conservative Party, as a nickname.

... The political group Compass issued a dossier which argues that "his buffoonery conceals a hard line right wing set of views - a type of Norman Tebbit in clown's uniform." The dossier, drawing on Johnson's 20 year career in journalism and politics, seeks to demonstrate he is a candidate unfitted to represent a tolerant and multicultural London: support for President George W. Bush and the Iraq War, Tory Section 28 legislation banning the "promotion" of homosexuality in grammar schools, and fox and stag hunting are balanced against opposition to the Kyoto treaty's environmental protections, the public smoking ban, and minimum wage legislation. Further gleaning of Johnson's many risqué magazine and newspaper columns is taken in the dossier to suggest an underlying racism and sexism. <11> <12> The dossier has been challenged on factual accuracy and representativeness by, among, others, journalist Andrew Gilligan.<13>

A, uh, colourful character, it seems. Maybe one of our Brit colleagues can comment!
Edit -- oops, you did, LeftishBrit. ;)

Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrat youth are eyeing Biden ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3672021

[Kurovski]

4. Not a whole lot of info about Sen. Clinton.

Basically he likes that she stayed married to her husband.

"...it is time to think of supporting Hillary, not because we necessarily want her for herself but because we want Bill in the role of First Husband. And if Bill can deal with Hillary, he can surely deal with any global crisis."

[bvar22]

5. Is anyone surprised?

Another "CONSERVATIVE" supports Hillary.....DUH!

The odds are that the Democratic Party will seat the next president.
Hillary is by far the most conservative Democratic candidate.
Do the math.

Ruppert did:



"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans. I want us to compete for that great mass of voters that want a party that will stand up for working Americans, family farmers, and people who haven't felt the benefits of the economic upturn."---Paul Wellstone