big deal tuesday
i wish i could see something helpful for america in hillary clinton.
i don't love to hate her. not even with the disastrous "blah blah blah obama's inexperienced blah blah blah his constituents are just FACEBOOK". although this is completely INFURIATING as a young person, still, i PITY her. i feel so very, very sorry for clinton. it's not her time. and she should know it. her argument is wrong for this period in history, she's too angry and insistent, and it's not [necessarily] because she's a woman that everything she's done on the campaign trail has been WRONG for every pundit you talk to. she's in a very delicate position, but at the SAME TIME, she overcompensates for the frailty of her image ONLY by making some REALLY bad choices and some even worse turns of phrase. (is her attack on obama, the passionately escalating, "i've made thirty-five YEARS of change!" her version of "yeaaaaaaaaaargh!"?)
i don't think she's evil. that's for other people to do-- when she chokes up the slightest bit, she's a calculating shrew; when her voice rises, she's a calculating shrew; when she toes the delicate line with bill as a crutch or barbell on the campaign trail, she's a calculating shrew.
it's ridiculous. i don't believe these were stunts, and i don't care (and neither, i can safely say, do my grrrlfriends) that she could potentially be representing all of womenkind. the females of MY generation are too smart to vote for another female just 'CAUSE. (and let me tell you, bitches can be VICIOUS to one another. don't tell me we all have an unbreakable menstrual bond and unconditionally support each other, or what the fuck ever people say. that's BULLSHIT, and everyone who has had a friend in elementary school inform them of their thunder-thighs damn well knows it.)
the simple truth is that it doesn't MATTER how qualified hillary clinton is. america wants to believe VERY MUCH that this is a meritocracy. if you want to know where the comfort is, look where the money's going. and, cynical as it is, obama's keeping his mouth shut with regard to specific plans for the white house at this juncture* is probably very, VERY wise. because the sociopolitical context NOW is one wherein rhetoric will be needed to soothe wounded egos and where compromise will be needed to caulk the cracks that (many argue) have formed of late.
i believe obama could do a bang up fuckin' job. he's got a helluva lot less experience than SOME, but experience is experience is experience. if you can make a moral or ethical decision, you can do the president's job.
but don't take MY word for it.**
the only reason this isn't part of the entry i was gonna write for today was because it somehow became long and impassioned.
dunno how THAT happened.
after all, i'm not a voter. just a snarky, blogging, internet-worshipping NEXT-GENNER.
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*personally, it SEEMS obvious that the electoral college should be done away with and all primaries held the same day, so we can do away with all this artificially heightened suspense crap and actually BE democratic. i mean, florida's votes getting taken away just because they wanted to push up the date of their primaries to COMPETE with those other big box states?! iowa, new hampshire... do you see a trend? outside of election season NO ONE FUCKING CARES ABOUT THEM. iowa grows corn or some such shit. if all men are created equal, by transitive property, all the states they LIVE in should be TREATED equally. it would level the playing field for third party candidates and less rich candidates and let americans really know what's ACTUALLY TRUE without having to listen and weed through the sound and the fury, the hype and the bytes. and it would inch america that much closer along, just the tiniest bit, to the democratic ideal we all love to worship and weep over.
**thanks, reading rainbow!
i don't love to hate her. not even with the disastrous "blah blah blah obama's inexperienced blah blah blah his constituents are just FACEBOOK". although this is completely INFURIATING as a young person, still, i PITY her. i feel so very, very sorry for clinton. it's not her time. and she should know it. her argument is wrong for this period in history, she's too angry and insistent, and it's not [necessarily] because she's a woman that everything she's done on the campaign trail has been WRONG for every pundit you talk to. she's in a very delicate position, but at the SAME TIME, she overcompensates for the frailty of her image ONLY by making some REALLY bad choices and some even worse turns of phrase. (is her attack on obama, the passionately escalating, "i've made thirty-five YEARS of change!" her version of "yeaaaaaaaaaargh!"?)
i don't think she's evil. that's for other people to do-- when she chokes up the slightest bit, she's a calculating shrew; when her voice rises, she's a calculating shrew; when she toes the delicate line with bill as a crutch or barbell on the campaign trail, she's a calculating shrew.
it's ridiculous. i don't believe these were stunts, and i don't care (and neither, i can safely say, do my grrrlfriends) that she could potentially be representing all of womenkind. the females of MY generation are too smart to vote for another female just 'CAUSE. (and let me tell you, bitches can be VICIOUS to one another. don't tell me we all have an unbreakable menstrual bond and unconditionally support each other, or what the fuck ever people say. that's BULLSHIT, and everyone who has had a friend in elementary school inform them of their thunder-thighs damn well knows it.)
the simple truth is that it doesn't MATTER how qualified hillary clinton is. america wants to believe VERY MUCH that this is a meritocracy. if you want to know where the comfort is, look where the money's going. and, cynical as it is, obama's keeping his mouth shut with regard to specific plans for the white house at this juncture* is probably very, VERY wise. because the sociopolitical context NOW is one wherein rhetoric will be needed to soothe wounded egos and where compromise will be needed to caulk the cracks that (many argue) have formed of late.
i believe obama could do a bang up fuckin' job. he's got a helluva lot less experience than SOME, but experience is experience is experience. if you can make a moral or ethical decision, you can do the president's job.
but don't take MY word for it.**
the only reason this isn't part of the entry i was gonna write for today was because it somehow became long and impassioned.
dunno how THAT happened.
after all, i'm not a voter. just a snarky, blogging, internet-worshipping NEXT-GENNER.
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*personally, it SEEMS obvious that the electoral college should be done away with and all primaries held the same day, so we can do away with all this artificially heightened suspense crap and actually BE democratic. i mean, florida's votes getting taken away just because they wanted to push up the date of their primaries to COMPETE with those other big box states?! iowa, new hampshire... do you see a trend? outside of election season NO ONE FUCKING CARES ABOUT THEM. iowa grows corn or some such shit. if all men are created equal, by transitive property, all the states they LIVE in should be TREATED equally. it would level the playing field for third party candidates and less rich candidates and let americans really know what's ACTUALLY TRUE without having to listen and weed through the sound and the fury, the hype and the bytes. and it would inch america that much closer along, just the tiniest bit, to the democratic ideal we all love to worship and weep over.
**thanks, reading rainbow!