This phrase needs to be adopted by the American public, and I intend to spread it until the pundits say it on national broadcasts. This is a lofty aspiration I know, but after a day of making the rounds on every call-in program I can...well, it just might be possible.

My problem with Hillary is her duplicity, her pandering - in other words, her Clinton tactics. I'm not a Clinton basher; I even supported Hillary as recently as two months ago. My issue with the Clintons is that they are one and the same entity and they play dirty. Hillary comes with Bill, and even though he did a pretty good job as President, I find it hard to believe that Bill will stay out of the limelight (or trouble for that matter).

Very few in Washington are as divisive as the Clintons, or as confrontational. Just look at how she has acted in this campaign when she wasn't getting her way (Can I get you a pillow, Barack?). This will continue all the way to the Executive Branch, and if the Democrats don't get the two-thirds majority they need in both houses, nothing will get done. Imagine the last two years of legislative stagnation for four more years. That is assuming the Democrats even take back the White House. No Democratic candidate is more likely to ensure a John McCain victory than Hillary Clinton.

By analyzing her tactics we can already see what kind of a President she would be. When she needed the women's vote in New Hampshire, she "cried," if that's what you want to call it. When she needed the vote of unemployed Ohioans, NAFTA became her worst enemy. Remember when a driver's license for illegal immigrants was a good idea until the public was outraged and the idea scrapped? She seems to go with the flow and not take any solid positions on anything for longer than a news cycle. In other words, she is a chameleon.

In the MSNBC debate in Cleveland, she was asked why she made no public outcry about NAFTA in 1994 when it was enacted. Her answer was that as a member of the Clinton Administration she had to follow the Party Line. Two things are disturbing about this. First, she will go along with what the party elders think regardless of how she feels. Second, since when has First Lady been considered an Administration position? I don’t mean to sound sexist, but Laura Bush has as much claim to the Presidency as Hillary.

She only started touting her record of "change" after Obama capitalized on the movement for reform that has taken the country by storm. Her version of change is to put the same people back into the same positions. This was tried before in 2000, and it turns out that that idea didn't work out too well.

Her idea of universal health coverage is to force everybody to purchase insurance. If you don't voluntarily buy coverage, the money will be garnished from your paycheck. Yet, Hillary has taken more campaign contributions from health insurance companies than any other Democrat. Sleeping with the enemy perhaps? That's Slick Hill’y!

Yes a vote for Hillary is a vote for change, but remember that when a wolf puts on a sheepskin it too has "changed." Let's help ensure the American public is not the unsuspecting sheep… or is it already too late?

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