No. She lost me a while ago when she became the number one recipient of health care industry lobbyist money while preaching about how she’s going to change our health care system.

I can’t trust her to go to the mat against them if she’s in their pockets. And it’s obvious who’s side she’s on when rather than focus on reducing costs, her plan MANDATES every citizen purchase health insurance. That’s a little like fixing homelessness by mandating everyone purchase or rent living space.

Beyond that, I don’t like her politics. I don’t like her negative campaigning. I don’t like the fact that she is a polarizing figure in the country for both the left and the right. I don’t like how “experience” is touted, when she’s held one elected office, ever, and that has been about 8 years. She was never elected to anything before she ran for the U.S. Senate. Comparing that to Obama, who has 4 years in the U.S. Senate and 7 more in the Illinois Senate. Not HUGE numbers, but nothing she should be pulling out as some big badge of honor.

I don’t discount her years of work for children, and I respect her for what she did in the 90’s to push for health care… But sometime after that she decided to become part of the machinery. She not only takes huge sums of money from lobbyists, but actually organizes matchmaking sessions for OTHER senators to meet and get money from lobbyists.