Hillary Clinton is the best Presidential Candidate Today

Hillary Clinton has raised more money than any other presidential candidate on either side, this quarter.

Maybe its time to reexamine her as a viable candidate and why its time to bring her to the front of my own thoughts about the American political system.

For a long time I hated Clinton for being so blatantly political, but examining her from a different point of view, as a politician running for office, her behavior may in fact be the most honest. Everyone knows that politicians make empty promises and say things that they think will get elected, but the problem is this year every democrat seems so set on separating themselves from Bush that they say completely bizarre things that are not plausible in the slightest (Obama wants to get rid of nuclear weapons! I'm pretty sure this was the plot of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace). While I would like to believe in a world where Dennis Kucinich was president (which I have a 91% match rating with in terms of policy- click here to take the candidate calculator test), I don't think that possibility exists (he might also be too short to be presidential.

Although I still vehemently oppose her stance on censorship, it is irrational and near-sighted of me to not want her socialized medicine policy to take hold in this country. Every day each of us sees people who could benefit from a socialized medicine program and having it doesn't mean that you have to use it. She has been focusing on this since 1992 and Clinton-1, and after 5 years in the Senate perhaps the only way to make it a reality is for her to be in office.

But how could we elect a woman to the presidency? Here is a list of some of the countries that have had female heads of state/government:

• India, China, Ireland, Israel, Great Britain, Germany, Portugal, France, Norway, Pakistan, Turkey, Canada, Bangladesh, South Korea, Finland, even Rwanda, and so many more.

Countries that have not had female representation?:

• Cuba, Russia, Japan... and a hundred more.

Shouldn't the United States who believes itself to be so globally progressive and pure, allow half the population at least the opportunity to run for office without the smears? Why does the headline always have to read, "Are we ready for a female president?", instead of, "Why the hell haven't we had one yet?".

So many people talk about "presidential dynasty fatigue syndrome" as though somehow there should be more people in this country who are qualified for the position. However, no one is really qualified for the presidency and it certainly can't be said any of the other candidates have the kind of White House insight that Hillary has or about how the executive branch works. Obama is great in speeches, he has tremendous insight as to how the world "should" work, but that is his naivete; his idealism getting ahead of him. Clinton is the realistic candidate and right now the best for the country given the current social climate. As long as she stays away from making too many radical statements about how great the war on terror is, she will get elected. Plus there are worse things to have than Bill as first-lady. Maybe Obama as running-mate? Oh but I think that reminds me of a Chris Rock joke...