Hillary Clinton is considered far less trustworthy than Barack Obama or John McCain, and Steve Benen wonders why here. The article hit a chord with me: I got a little self-reflexive for a second and wondered why I had so little trust in Hillary when I couldn't really name too many really big lies that her campaign had disseminated. I was reevaluating things until I scrolled down and saw this comment fragment by commenter "Always hopeful":
You can’t trust someone who “will do anything to win”.
I think this is about right. She's been dishonest about NAFTA, Ireland, and other things, but I think that the "she'll do anything to win" factor that makes people queasy. I think a lot of people figure that will come to mean that as soon as she secures the nomination she'll start talking about fiscal conservatism and balanced budgets again, like she used to. She'll move to the center because that's where she thinks elections are won. How many times in this campaign has she fallen victim to the Beltway consensus? On foreign policy, certainly. She has shown a fundamental inability to see outside the box in this election, a lack of imagination. Perhaps that's why most thinking people support Obama...
