THe most effective president in recent history was without a doubt LBJ. He was the epitome of shrewd and conniving. If you want things done, this is essential. Compromise is the essence of politics. Hillary has Bill and Bill knows how to get things done better than either Obama or McCain, based on experience. Of course, the greatest danger to Hillary and Obama is the subversion that the oligarchy will try to hit them with. This could also be a problem for McCain if he doesn't behave.
McCain, for me, just PRETENDS to be independent. Examine carefully how his protest against torture went. He blustered and he fussed and bitched and stewed, and nothing was really accomplished. The new Attorney General refuses to label waterboarding as torture and pretty much reserves the right to do anything he damn well chooses.
For me, McCain might act like a tiger, but he's just a big pussy. If he is pushed, he will always back down and do as he's told.
Hillary's biggest problem is mainly that the oligarchy has spent the past dozen years in an active campaign to convince people that she is poison. People say they don;t trust her, but they can't say why. Her only reral blunder was her healthcare plan. It was a defeat, burt so was Cheney's Energy Plan, unless its real purtpose was to keep us hooked o petroleum and to double prices and triple profits, and no one even MENTIONS this. Why? Because there is no immense ad campaign to remind us what an utter disaster it was. But the campaign tyo make people hate Hillary, it has been a daily thing for a long, long time.
The GOP, and that party includes McCain, who campaigned for the unspeakably incompetent Juniorbush and the personification of the Military Industrial Complex, Dick Cheney, screwed up worse than any party in history. They do not deserve to be re elected, and I certainly am not voting for anything they nominate that does not publicly denounce Juniorbush Cheney and all that they stand for on primetime TV