If Hillary Clinton and your mother were trapped in a burning building, and you could only save one of them, who would you save?
Hmm, good question. Is Hillary already president in this scenario?
(Just kidding, obviously my mother)
What are your religious beliefs, if any?
Who are some of your favourite politicians, past and present, besides Hillary Clinton?
I'm an atheist, and have been since I was about 16. I used to be a strong "anti-theist" who did my best to insult/mock religions as often as possible, but once I got more mature I stopped caring, and now think people can believe whatever they choose (unless they try to force their beliefs on others).
Past - Abraham Lincoln, FDR, LBJ, JFK...pretty standard Democratic sacred cows. I like Ike. Even though he's pretty awful in retrospect (like most politicians from the past), I admire Henry Clay. I have a love-hate relationship with Bob Casey, Sr.
Present - Dayton, Shumlin, and Brown are probably my favorite Dem govs. As for Senators, I like Barbara Boxer, Chris Murphy, Elizabeth Warren, Jon Tester, Kirsten Gillibrand, Sherrod Brown, the Oregon duo, Bernie Sanders, Mark Warner, and Tammy Baldwin. As far as Republicans go, Lisa Murkowski and Brian Sandoval are pretty good.
How did you choose your username?
I put two random words I thought of together.
What concrete, specific policy and/or legislative accomplishments does Hillary Clinton have that would make her a top-tier contender for the Democratic Presidential nomination (let alone the actual Presidency itself) if she had never married Bill Clinton?
>Implying people care about legislative accomplishments when supporting a president.
Since nothing gets done these days anyway, very few senators have any legislative accomplishments, including Obama when he was a senator and most of the Republican senators bandied about as potential 2016 candidates.
As for concrete policy, I admired her smart power philosophy when abroad, which I see as a good medium between the Cheneyite neocon philosophy and the Ron Paul isolationist philosophy. And even though she may be less liberal than Obama (although the degree to which this is so is vastly overstated), I believe she'd be more effective than he is. Hillary knows the DC game well, which her opponents say is a negative, but I see a positive. Obama has been too aloof and detached, willing to delegate everything to Congress. I see Hillary as being one to put her nose to the grindstone and wheel and deal until she gets something that is a step in the right direction, even if it's only incremental.
As for the rest of her policy, she's a fairly generic Democrat on both social issues and economic issues. I'm not sure where the whole "Hillary is a Wall Street shill thing" came from, unless you're extrapolating based off her husband (which is sexist). It should also be noted that a lot of Bill's "Wall Street giveaways" passed under overwhelming, bipartisan, and veto-proof majorities. Congress is just as if not more important than the presidency, which many purists don't seem to understand. Electing Cruz or Sanders isn't going to change anything if Congress remains stagnant.
Who will you be supporting for president in 2016?
Brian Schweitzer (not a right-wing Democrat)
If that doesn't work out...
