Clang Clang
Maureen Dowd nailed the real reason why I will give Obama my vote this year – I have tried to stand by my woman, Hilary, but I’m moving farther and farther away. This year I vowed not to give my vote on the abortion platform, and instead have made it the Just Say No To War platform, the only one with balls to say no, was Obama – clang clang clang.
January 30th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
ok honey, i don’t understand what ms dowd nailed in her column for you (i read it). it sounds like your mind is made up but if the door is open i would like you to reconisder. i am supporting hill both monetarily and by volunteering. there is somehting very disingenous in obama’s mannerisms, i can’t articulate it exactly but i know it when i see and hear it. i’ve read somewhere that anyone who runs for presdient has a really big ego, and i’m sensing that behind those well crafted speeches of his (which say nothing, as far as i can tell) is a really big ego. with HRC, i dont sense she’s running for ego, god if her ego was in play, wouldn’t she have been divorced by now? i think she’s running because she really believes she can accomplish things because its the right thing to do, not the popular thing. I’ve never respected ms. dowd, i think a lot of what she says screams angry female. hillary is in a tough position, she came of age when you couldnt show your emotions in the workplace to succeed, you had to play hardball and act like a guy to get ahead. now some are crying for her to warm up, but i dont think you need warmth in a president, you need someone who can accomplish things (and preferably in line with our political leanings). i think she can accomplish. i dont see that in this new kid on the block.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
On the contrary, because her ego is so big and self-centered she stayed married.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I’ve been over this many times and honest to goodness, I feel like we are lucky to have two viable candidates. When I moved back to New Orleans in 2005, I drove and listened to both autobiographies: first Bill then Hillary. I came away with a weird feeling about Hillary – sort of like she is a nonperson and Bill is too much person. Anyway, I was in San Francisco when the war was about to start and frankly I was shocked – everyone stood on street corners shouting NO WAR and I went to a panel discussion led by Lewis Lapham from Harper’s and he and a team of respected journalists debated the war. I left the hall dejected – with a certainty that we were going to war no matter what anyone wanted – I was in shock.
I felt then and feel even more so now that this was the most absurd war we had ever entered. I was vehemently against it for all the reasons that didn’t exist to be going into it. I remember that black female congressman from California was ridiculed for voting against it as if she was some fool.
Then back to Hillary – I was brought up in a medical family – honest to god the medical profession scares me to death because there is so much that goes on that is speculation delivered with authority – and the one thing that Hillary declared she was going to do during Bill’s admin was address this issue – and ZILCH happened. Nothing. I’m not saying she wasn’t up against enormous obstacles but won’t she be as our president too? What I am saying is she accomplished nothing.
I don’t care whether she stayed with Bill or not – no one knows what goes on with a couple except that couple. Most likely she loves the man and was wiling to forgive his stupidity for doing something so stupid as letting an intern give him a bj. That really doesn’t matter to me at all.
I can’t see how anyone would run for presidency who did not have a big ego – how could you – public service – are you crazy? I saw a photo exhibit of shots taken of presidents as they entered the presidency and those when they left – look at any of the presidents in our history and the position sucks the very life out of you – you can see the manifestation of this on their faces. Obama and Hillary are both running on a platform I support. They both would make good presidents.
I’m talking about taking chances, taking risks. I know Hillary had obstacles and I’d venture to even say here publicly that her obstacles to overcome might have even been tougher because misogyny is not as transparent as black/white prejudice in this country. And yes, I am READY for female leadership in the White House and elsewhere – I would vote for Nancy Pelosi if she ran for president – I think she is a strong leader.
But I have issues with Hillary. I do. I feel like she hasn’t spoken to me – she hasn’t told me why I should vote for her – and I feel that Obama has said two things very strongly – he is against the war and for change and those are two things I feel adamant about in this election. I want to get out of that mess that Bush got us into and I want to change everything that this administration has set forth. And I want someone who is hell bent on accomplishing that mission.
I hope the best candidate wins – the one who has the vision to lead this country – to turn our eyes inward and solve our own ills before traipsing around looking for Osama and his low life followers. When Bush was elected there were many things that needed to be done here domestically – we needed to reinvent our education system, our Social Security, address poverty particularly as it concerns children, our monumental health care crisis, and more – but instead he locked us into a war that nobody wanted and that has made us an embarrassment around the world.
As far as I’m concerned Crusty the Clown could run for the presidency and I would back him whole heartedly – and feel absolutely sure that the clown would be better than the idiot we have now any day of the week.
January 30th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
And this is the part that I was referring to that Dowd nailed – But Obama is the more emotionally delicate candidate, and the one who has the more feminine consensus management style, and the not-blinded-by-testosterone ability to object to a phony war. – I agree whole heartedly with Dowd and feel that she nailed something that I’ve been trying to digest with Hillary – her lack of femaleness, her lack of persona.