The End...
I have reached my whit's end on this campaign.
I first want to apologize for anyone else who has written about these issues, but I need to get some stuff off of my chest before I give up the "reading of blogs all day" to get back to the real world.
I was in love with the Clintons in the 1990s. I wrote my history thesis at university on the unwarranted Clinton scandals. I majored in political science at university because I wanted to go help Hillary become the first woman President of the United States of America. I loved her "take-no-crap-from-anyone" "I'm not the stay at home and baking cookies mom type" of attitude in the 1992 campaign, and it kept me with her through her Senate race in 1999-2000. With the election of The Gwoober that same year, I saw her as a hope in the darkness.
Then she voted for the War in Iraq and lost me completely. I didn't have a tv, no internet, and was not a sitting US Senator with access to classified information, but even I knew this war was wrong. I spoke out against it constantly, alienating lots of friends and acquaintances along the way, since we forget now that most of the country was for the war before they were against it.
Once the shine is gone off your silver armor, all you ever see is the dull spot that lies beneath.
I started off this election season as a Edwards man; he was striking all the right notes ("Damn you, Corporate Overlords!, he would say with a smile in that beguiling southern accent"), and he had me from the start. I wasn't into Obama at all then; he was inexperienced at governing, he had never run a real campaign, and he was a black man. I just didn't see it happening for him.
I was wrong. He won Iowa (that speech had me crying!), almost won New Hampshire, won more delegates in Nevada, and burned through South Carolina. When Edwards dropped out, I gave Obama money, the first candidate for the first time ever. I gave all I could ($10), but I knew he had millions of others giving too, I would give more later.
I phone banked for him here in GA. I talked to people all the time, on the street, on the train, in the store, at the mall, at the gym, at work, at the airport, EVERYWHERE, to get them to vote for this guy. And they did, overwhelmingly here in Georgia.
I could go into a long explanation of why I like Obama, but I don't want to take the time up with that. In short, we all know the litany by now; he's a great speaker, Republicans and Independents dig him, the kids think he's alright and they are actually turning out to vote for him in droves, the crowds, the Race speech, his moral clarity, and his biting honesty are all what get me going for this guy.
The honesty bit is what inspired this post. Obama said something honest last week, that Pennsylvanians (indeed all Americans) are bitter and turn to god, guns, and whatnot for solace when times are bad. Really? You don't say? State the obvious much? Read up on history have you? I don't think that what he said was a big deal, I believe it. I don't think it's elitist, I think its real. 80% of Americans agree with me too, as that same number thinks the country is on the wrong track. How is this a scandal?
Hillary, why are you persuing this? We find out last week that the President has authorized torture, and you decide to focus not on him and his international law breaking, which is what transpired, but instead a very true sentiment? You find out a couple of months ago that you can't win the nomination, so what do you do? Not drop out, but suggest that private donors pay for new primaries in Michigan and Florida. Are you a Republican now? Since when is it alright for rich people to pay for elections? How is this democratic or Democratic? I read everywhere that you and Obama are engaged in a fight to the death for the nomination, but I see you engaged in a suicidal death spiral taking our hopes for the White House with you.
I'm not a blogger. If you check my website in my profile, you'll see that I have a blog page, with 4 entries on it. I work for a charity that provides the poor with homes, I don't have time to write out my opinions on stuff on the off-chance that someone might read it. I'm busy with real life. But this stuff has gotten in my craw, and I'm ANGRY!!!! You can't win like this. You can't win a nomination for our Party on the back of every Republican point made about Democrats over the last 35 years. Win by telling us how you are a better candidate and how you will be a better President than Senator Obama, not by dragging him through the mud with you. By you engaging in this name calling Senator Clinton, you are destroying yourself in the eyes of your biggest defenders. If you kill us off, who will defend you if you somehow won the Presidency? How can you win the Presidency if all of the Republicans, most of the Independents, and over a third of Democrats despise you?
I'm ending this. Not this long rant, but my association and my eyeballs on this campaign season. It's been heartbreaking, like loosing a friend you thought you could count on. I will not campaign for Hillary in the fall. I don't see why I should; she is saying the same things an McCain, she now has people that I don't care for defending her, and I'm not a woman, so the whole Supreme Court argument with Roe v. Wade doesn't bother me. I like John McCain, even though he is a conservative douche like all the rest, but at least he is funny. Hillary used to be very funny, but now only in a bad way.Come back to us Hillary. Take Richard Mellon Schaife off speed-dial and come back.
I first want to apologize for anyone else who has written about these issues, but I need to get some stuff off of my chest before I give up the "reading of blogs all day" to get back to the real world.
I was in love with the Clintons in the 1990s. I wrote my history thesis at university on the unwarranted Clinton scandals. I majored in political science at university because I wanted to go help Hillary become the first woman President of the United States of America. I loved her "take-no-crap-from-anyone" "I'm not the stay at home and baking cookies mom type" of attitude in the 1992 campaign, and it kept me with her through her Senate race in 1999-2000. With the election of The Gwoober that same year, I saw her as a hope in the darkness.
Then she voted for the War in Iraq and lost me completely. I didn't have a tv, no internet, and was not a sitting US Senator with access to classified information, but even I knew this war was wrong. I spoke out against it constantly, alienating lots of friends and acquaintances along the way, since we forget now that most of the country was for the war before they were against it.
Once the shine is gone off your silver armor, all you ever see is the dull spot that lies beneath.
I started off this election season as a Edwards man; he was striking all the right notes ("Damn you, Corporate Overlords!, he would say with a smile in that beguiling southern accent"), and he had me from the start. I wasn't into Obama at all then; he was inexperienced at governing, he had never run a real campaign, and he was a black man. I just didn't see it happening for him.
I was wrong. He won Iowa (that speech had me crying!), almost won New Hampshire, won more delegates in Nevada, and burned through South Carolina. When Edwards dropped out, I gave Obama money, the first candidate for the first time ever. I gave all I could ($10), but I knew he had millions of others giving too, I would give more later.
I phone banked for him here in GA. I talked to people all the time, on the street, on the train, in the store, at the mall, at the gym, at work, at the airport, EVERYWHERE, to get them to vote for this guy. And they did, overwhelmingly here in Georgia.
I could go into a long explanation of why I like Obama, but I don't want to take the time up with that. In short, we all know the litany by now; he's a great speaker, Republicans and Independents dig him, the kids think he's alright and they are actually turning out to vote for him in droves, the crowds, the Race speech, his moral clarity, and his biting honesty are all what get me going for this guy.
The honesty bit is what inspired this post. Obama said something honest last week, that Pennsylvanians (indeed all Americans) are bitter and turn to god, guns, and whatnot for solace when times are bad. Really? You don't say? State the obvious much? Read up on history have you? I don't think that what he said was a big deal, I believe it. I don't think it's elitist, I think its real. 80% of Americans agree with me too, as that same number thinks the country is on the wrong track. How is this a scandal?
Hillary, why are you persuing this? We find out last week that the President has authorized torture, and you decide to focus not on him and his international law breaking, which is what transpired, but instead a very true sentiment? You find out a couple of months ago that you can't win the nomination, so what do you do? Not drop out, but suggest that private donors pay for new primaries in Michigan and Florida. Are you a Republican now? Since when is it alright for rich people to pay for elections? How is this democratic or Democratic? I read everywhere that you and Obama are engaged in a fight to the death for the nomination, but I see you engaged in a suicidal death spiral taking our hopes for the White House with you.
I'm not a blogger. If you check my website in my profile, you'll see that I have a blog page, with 4 entries on it. I work for a charity that provides the poor with homes, I don't have time to write out my opinions on stuff on the off-chance that someone might read it. I'm busy with real life. But this stuff has gotten in my craw, and I'm ANGRY!!!! You can't win like this. You can't win a nomination for our Party on the back of every Republican point made about Democrats over the last 35 years. Win by telling us how you are a better candidate and how you will be a better President than Senator Obama, not by dragging him through the mud with you. By you engaging in this name calling Senator Clinton, you are destroying yourself in the eyes of your biggest defenders. If you kill us off, who will defend you if you somehow won the Presidency? How can you win the Presidency if all of the Republicans, most of the Independents, and over a third of Democrats despise you?
I'm ending this. Not this long rant, but my association and my eyeballs on this campaign season. It's been heartbreaking, like loosing a friend you thought you could count on. I will not campaign for Hillary in the fall. I don't see why I should; she is saying the same things an McCain, she now has people that I don't care for defending her, and I'm not a woman, so the whole Supreme Court argument with Roe v. Wade doesn't bother me. I like John McCain, even though he is a conservative douche like all the rest, but at least he is funny. Hillary used to be very funny, but now only in a bad way.Come back to us Hillary. Take Richard Mellon Schaife off speed-dial and come back.
