Hillary's Admiration for Margaret Thatcher.

http://www.observer.com/2008/hillary-had-reactionary-role-model-too

Hillary Had a Reactionary Role Model, Too

The controversy over Barack Obama’s admiring mention of former President Ronald Reagan thrived this week, fed and nurtured by Hillary Clinton and her allies. But there’s no shortage of precedent for a Democratic candidate lauding a reactionary leader. And Mrs. Clinton should know.

Referring to the importance or otherwise of likability, Mr. Penn told The Daily Telegraph of London:

“I think ‘buddy potential’ is way overrated. It’s not who you want to have a beer with, it’s who you want to have as president or prime minister. The Margaret Thatcher experience showed pretty clearly how the Conservative Party did so much better with strength and leadership. In the U.S., people realize increasingly that running for president is not an American Idol-like contest.”

By the standards Mrs. Clinton and her campaign have applied to Mr. Obama’s comments about Reagan’s effectiveness, it was a fairly disquieting observation. And as is the case with Reagan, Mrs. Thatcher—a bitterly divisive figure firmly rooted in the hard right—offers little that should appeal to the base Democratic constituency Mrs. Clinton is courting.

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AFAIK. People vote for the party and the party elects the minister, right? Wouldn't Clinton just love if that's how we did it here?

She had to win a majority of seats in the parliament of 625 to be exact and then form a government. No easy job.

Before anyone offers Violetta as a role model, it should be reminded that she pilfered and stole as much money as she and her cronies could grab in 4 years. Not that the millionairess was so destitute to begin with. Under Pres. Violetta, the Soviet-made fleet of helicopters were sold off, officially to raise money for an unemployment program for laid-off soldiers. Although the last few airworthy choppers were sold to Peru in 1993, the initial sales of those hi-tech aircraft in 1990 were never fully accounted for. Allegations of embezzlement and outright theft by Violeta Chamorro, her son-in-law Antonio Lacayo and their colleagues were never investigated completely.

With the disappearance of all the Sandinista's fleet of Soviet helicopters, there was no way to evacuate citizens during the disaster of 1990, there was major flooding affected 100,000 people along the banks of the Prinzapolka and Bambana Rivers, vast areas of Nicaragua. Thanks to Pres. Violetta, there were hardly any functional helicopters left in Nicaragua to rescue anyone.

And it must not be forgotten that Hurricane Mitch created a much worse situation in 1998. Ten thousand people died from that catastrophe in Honduras and Nicaragua. How many thousands of those people would have been alive today, had the conservative Nicaraguan aristocrat Violetta Chamorro not been elected to office in 1990? But by then, already Violetta had taken her money and ran away from public office, so she would wash her hands from the sordid dealings she made when elected. Her get rich quick schemes directly led to the loss of thousands of her fellow citizens.

...when Reagan wanted something, Magaret made sure England benefited some way...Bush told Blair want to do, he stuck his tail between his leg and did it, no questions asked.

She sorted the country out good and proper. It took her 4 years to sort out the mess her predecessor left behind and had to make tough decisions.

But she sorted it she did.

What would you do, if a country invaded puerto rico or hawaii

The country was in a terrible economic mess and she did fix it.

I don't think she's praising Thatcher. She's just saying that a party won't succeed if its leader lacks strength and leadership. Color me stunned.

:shrug:

The lies march on!