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TheBagofHealthandPolitics

If being ready for the Presidency means shading the truth, applying different standards to your biggest backers, and cow towing to the politics of fear, then yes Hillary Clinton is ready to be President.

Early in the Democratic debate she said she thought that some of her campaign's supporters go too far. On Sunday, she said that if anybody does anything that she considers "over the line," that they're gone from her campaign. On Tuesday night, she admits that what Bob Johnson did was over the line, but chooses not to fire him from her campaign because he is a billionaire that is one of her campaign's biggest backers.

On nuclear power, she states she is against that God awful idea Yucca Mountain, which isn't just bad for Nevada, but is also bad for the nation. Let's transport Nuclear Waste on Railroads, and see what happens when there's a derailment. No thanks. Yet as late as last year she was saying she didn't have a position on Yucca Mountain.

And then at the end of the debate, she raises the specter of a terrorist attack by pointing to Great Britain after Gordon Brown was inaugurate. She says that this was people trained in Al Qaeda camps. Just like the Bush administration, she is lying and exaggerating to scare up votes. The truth: it was two local hooligans with a few containers of gasoline and a set of matches. Basically, they were arsonists. They were not trained by Al Qaeda, and they did not know what they were doing. Further, I will note that she's giving Al Qaeda an idea by saying, "There will be a terrorist attack after the next election." If that's the case Hillary, why don't we just let Bush stay in office? (That is the logical extension of her argument).

Obama called her on that. It was a brilliant moment. It was when the old politics of fear and division was confronted by the new politics of hope and unity. I chose the latter. Nevada should choose the latter. Don't give into your fears; don't vote for Hillary Clinton!