It took me months to arrive at this. When caucuses came through I had no preferences. Had I voted for Clinton then, I would rue it today
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With all due respect - and the warning that I am reaching for my crossbow here - that is just about as vile a phrase when applied to abortion and gay rights, when uttered by a straight male, as "kike" would be, coming from a "progressive" German.
Care to explain why I should not be contemplating murder right now?
Because this is the way Republicans have been using these issues for the past, I don't know, 12 election cycles or so? Divide people along pro-choice/anti-choice lines, and rally them to the polls to vote their hate. Instigating a Culture War around these two issues has proven to be a winning strategy for them since Reagan's days. My use of the word is to underscore that these two issues have been getting used, by Republicans mostly, to get out the hate vote. And I think, given the results of the 2004 elections, that it has been working well for them
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Ah, good. Ohay- that explanation actually does fulfill my last request. But coming on the heels of the Amanda Marcotte brouhaha this past week, your timing for usage of that phrase with those two issues was unfortunate, to say the least.
A beloved friend told me recently that she was going to be what she dreaded being most in this election: a one-issue voter. She dislikes both surviving Dem potentials, like me prefers Hillary and mistrusts Obama, bit she and I both found ourselves on the line together: we're voting on the choice issue, and that means the Dem candidate.
I wish I had Edwards to vote for also, but I don't. I hate our primary system - it is less an honest poll than a war of attrition.
Hillary's forfeited my trust on quite a few things, but I still consider her less deleterious to my agenda than McCain, and that's what drives my vote.
I'm actually wishin I had ELIZABETH Edwards to vote for. She just floors me.
Or Barbara Boxer. Now there's a woman I've worked with and trust, about 95% of the time. I'm not naive enough to trust any politician all the time, but that's the anture of power.
Excuse me?
With all due respect - and the warning that I am reaching for my crossbow here - that is just about as vile a phrase when applied to abortion and gay rights, when uttered by a straight male, as "kike" would be, coming from a "progressive" German.
Care to explain why I should not be contemplating murder right now?
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A beloved friend told me recently that she was going to be what she dreaded being most in this election: a one-issue voter. She dislikes both surviving Dem potentials, like me prefers Hillary and mistrusts Obama, bit she and I both found ourselves on the line together: we're voting on the choice issue, and that means the Dem candidate.
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Hillary's forfeited my trust on quite a few things, but I still consider her less deleterious to my agenda than McCain, and that's what drives my vote.
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Or Barbara Boxer. Now there's a woman I've worked with and trust, about 95% of the time. I'm not naive enough to trust any politician all the time, but that's the anture of power.
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