Art of the Possible

Today there is going to be an event with Hillary Clinton supporting Eric Massa. This is an interesting move, Bringing in one of the biggest names the Democratic party has to offer sounds like a good thing but being a big name doesn’t necessarily mean she’s well liked. Seems as if I’m one of few people left on the fence about her. There have been many votes one important issues where she stood for what I consider the right position. But then there’s here unwavering support of this illegal war. Overall New York obviously likes her, she is going to win this election with probably 65% of the vote, but her numbers are no where near that for this district which is what matters for Massa. Honestly I only now realized that she’s campaigning for herself as well as helping Massa, Her win was never even in question so I basically forget that she’s even running.

            One place this does help Eric is that it gives him a little more political credibility. He’s never been in politics before on any level so starting as a Representative is about like learning to swim by being tossed off the high dive. I’m not saying he’s going to drown but it will be rough at the start. So by having such an established name like Clinton in your corner has got to make you feel a bit more comfortable. So my stance is that she’s ok, not great not always good even but not terrible either. If she were in a close election against a Republican I would vote for her, maybe have a sign, but that’s as much help as she’d get from me. On the other hand she is not in a close race, she’s hardly in a race at all, so I’ll probably vote for Howie Hawkins out of protest to her war stance.

            Wow I never even knew who Republican candidate for senate was, I saw a few Faso signs around and assumed that was the guy, but Faso is running for Gov. which means he’s going to lose to Spitzer, and badly. The guy running against Hillary I’ve never heard of, so that’s probably a good sign that the area isn’t as anti-Hillary as I thought they might be, or I just never noticed the signs. Well whatever, I’m hopefully going to head to the National Warplane Museum later (3:30 pm) to see my Senator and my next Representative speak, one of my supervisors may go too. Hope to see you there.