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Voted for Obama. And John Laird (Prop. 93)

Someday, when I have time and can figure out how to do it without pissing anybody off too much, I will detail why I have distrusted Hillary ever since having to deal with one of her campaign staffers who was giving free -but-overvalued advice to a friend running for local office. And this was in 2006, before there officially was a Hillary-for-pres campaign.

Justin Smith on 3quarksdaily has a hilarious “endorsement” for Obama from the leading Byelorussian newspaper. Here’s what they have to say about Hillary:

Now Hillary Clinton had eight years already in White House. During that time, she set herself one goal: the creation of new polyclinics throughout America, for the promotion of health and hygiene, from Poultry Processing Plant “John Tyson” in State Missouri to High Technology Cybernetics Park “Bill Gates” in State Washington, to public high school “Martin Luther King” in City Oakland. But how many polyclinics emerged from her time in the White House? There are no more polyclinics in America now than during Great Depression. Instead Clinton left America with the “health’s management organizations,” with queues of length we have not seen in Belarus since Great War for Fatherland, and costs that are sure to make any patient “sick.” Americans should be asking to Candidate Clinton: where are the polyclinics? Where can I go for antibiotics or a mustard plaster when I fall ill? Where can I go to pasteurize my children?

Since everybody else is embedding this Obama video, I might as well too: