Thank you HRC for absolving me of my sense of having betrayed you
Despite Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, and other scandals, I respected and even somewhat loved the Clintons. That is until this campaign.
I wish they'd bow out. For the sake of the party. For the sake of the system. For the sake of the people's faith in the system. And so on.
I don't care that the campaigns are "close." I don't care that Hilary won CA, NY, and other big states. I believe that more people in those states will choose Obama over good old McC. I think FL and MI should just have redos, and even if they go to HRC than Obama, I still think he'd have a better chance against McC.
As of the start of this year, I believed that HRC could sway Republicans to her the way she had in NY. However, she's managed to repulse even *me* (who'd thought so highly of her) whether or not she would make a fantastic POTUS. What has become incredibly clear is that she'd be willing to destroy the party and more in order to become POTUS, and that to me is hubris and ambition run amuck. Her not removing her name from the ballot in FL and MI in the first place and then turning around to claim that her wins in either state could in any way be considered legitimate is disgusting. Her claiming that Obama has *NO* experience (not saying he has a lot of experience but certainly he has experience and far better judgment, though not yet sure about integrity or humility) is downright shameful, embarrassing, slanderous, and so much more. Her willingness to manipulate the party and the super delegates against Obama, especially given the grassroots base of formerly jaded but newly re-inspired Dems, Indies, and Reps, is unforgivable. Does she really want to win so badly that she'd be willing to sacrifice a multitude of citizens' faith in the system, which is all too precarious still? If so, she is no civil servant, certainly not of a democratic republic. She would be to me a vainglorious, self-aggrandizing, self-important, self-entitled something (I can't think of the word I want to use) but not a humble servant of either the people or the state.
Her desperate, conniving, and nearly underhanded moves in the last month have made me glad that I hesitantly, reluctantly, uncertainly cast my primary ballot in LA for Obama rather than her. I no longer feel like I betrayed her. I appreciate that she's absolved me of self-doubt.
And if she loses but goes on to displace Reid and makes Obama and his supporters *deal* with her (as a vindictive loser with a wounded ego the size of Jupiter), I hope that Whitewater or whatever other scandal of her and Bill's making comes and bites her on the arse. HARD.
Thanks for reading my spewing forth.
I wish they'd bow out. For the sake of the party. For the sake of the system. For the sake of the people's faith in the system. And so on.
I don't care that the campaigns are "close." I don't care that Hilary won CA, NY, and other big states. I believe that more people in those states will choose Obama over good old McC. I think FL and MI should just have redos, and even if they go to HRC than Obama, I still think he'd have a better chance against McC.
As of the start of this year, I believed that HRC could sway Republicans to her the way she had in NY. However, she's managed to repulse even *me* (who'd thought so highly of her) whether or not she would make a fantastic POTUS. What has become incredibly clear is that she'd be willing to destroy the party and more in order to become POTUS, and that to me is hubris and ambition run amuck. Her not removing her name from the ballot in FL and MI in the first place and then turning around to claim that her wins in either state could in any way be considered legitimate is disgusting. Her claiming that Obama has *NO* experience (not saying he has a lot of experience but certainly he has experience and far better judgment, though not yet sure about integrity or humility) is downright shameful, embarrassing, slanderous, and so much more. Her willingness to manipulate the party and the super delegates against Obama, especially given the grassroots base of formerly jaded but newly re-inspired Dems, Indies, and Reps, is unforgivable. Does she really want to win so badly that she'd be willing to sacrifice a multitude of citizens' faith in the system, which is all too precarious still? If so, she is no civil servant, certainly not of a democratic republic. She would be to me a vainglorious, self-aggrandizing, self-important, self-entitled something (I can't think of the word I want to use) but not a humble servant of either the people or the state.
Her desperate, conniving, and nearly underhanded moves in the last month have made me glad that I hesitantly, reluctantly, uncertainly cast my primary ballot in LA for Obama rather than her. I no longer feel like I betrayed her. I appreciate that she's absolved me of self-doubt.
And if she loses but goes on to displace Reid and makes Obama and his supporters *deal* with her (as a vindictive loser with a wounded ego the size of Jupiter), I hope that Whitewater or whatever other scandal of her and Bill's making comes and bites her on the arse. HARD.
Thanks for reading my spewing forth.