Cruiser, you contend the rise in oral STD's is due to Clinton. Source for that claim, please. Or is it just an ill informed opinion?

I would have respect for your opinion, and your claim, I am a registered Republican, but notwithstanding that, I try to use reason on such political issues, if I saw you bringing the same moral outrage on the numbers of Republican, and conservative, hypocrites that we have seen lately and over the years.

I have met and had conversation with Hillary Clinton on several occasions due to my political activity. While I don't claim to be a friend, what I can say is that I have had several opportunities to observe her and talk with her at length. She is strikingly genuine in her beliefs. When she speaks with you, unlike most politicians, she is focused on you and engaged in the conversation. Her intelligence fairly leaps out of the conversation. She reminds me of Senator Carl Levin, in that when you speak with her, bring your A game. She will ask the kinds of probing questions that will expose phoney statements or poorly thought out beliefs. The conversation will challenge you to demonstrate why you think the way you do.

I believe it is easy to have opinions as to why she reacted to a very tough situation in her personal life, which was played out in public. I don't know that any of you could have handled it as well as she did. Black and white pronouncements on that specific issue seem to me to be easy to say.

As to whether she should be President, I am not sure. I agree with LEJ's observations about how she handled and bungled, the attempt to get the Health Care Initiative passed. But I also know that the Clinton's were coming in with an attitude that they could do anything they wanted. They soon got a lesson on "inside the beltway" politics, as well as the error of thinking the American public was ready to embrace radical change. This is the real big leagues of politics. It is my opinion that the Clintons you see after 8 years in the Crucible are not the same that you saw come marching in at the beginning. She is very intelligent and intense, and certainly possesses all the skills necessary to be a great President, as well as the first woman President. I just don't know if she is electable, but there is a side of me that has met her and hopes she runs and is successful. I will say this, if she gets the nod for the nomination, I am coming out of my political retirement to work for her.

Mick