Go vote.
And BTW Oregonians, a good friend has made a promise that should you pick Hillary as the winner, she will give up cheese and start believing in god. While I think giving up cheese is taking things too far (dear gawd, what’s next? Sex and booze?) you have the power to save her immortal soul.
Not to mention you can save the heart and soul of our party and our country with a vote for Hilary.
Think about it.
whose votes don’t count.
Count the fricken votes already.
With the O’bots there seems to be this misconception that I am anti- Obama because I am a rabid vagina voter who is upset that a girl (any girl) might be beat to the white house by a boy.
Lemme clarify.
I will not vote for Obama because of his own failings. While the behavior of the Blogger Boyz and the O’bots and even Michelle Obama are ATROCIOUS, it is Obama himself who has made it impossible for me to vote for him. And that doesn’t actually have anything to do with Hillary.
And I am not pro-Hillary simply because I want to see a woman in the White House (though I do very very much want to see that- if it was just a matter of getting a vagina in power then I would have supported Elizabeth Dole a few years ago). I like Hillary’s policies. I trust her experience. And I think she is the only person in this campaign strong enough to pull our country through the coming shitstorm.
For every other election, I have not had a problem voting for someone who was not my original candidate of choice. This is the first time that the “presumptive” nominee has been such a miserable option that I cannot support him no matter what.
I believe that a President Obama would do damage to myself and my family. I believe this as a women, a parent, a member of the working class. I believe that Obama has repeatedly shown through his words and actions that the things that add to the struggle in my life are things he either doesn’t care about or are things he will make more difficult for me. And being that we are so close to the edge all ready, I cannot afford that kind of ignorance or condescension from the leader of my own party.
I also know that Hillary has a long and established record of doing things that help people like me. And we need help.
I hope it’s all clear now.
It’s the map, not the math!
This is what the Obamabots don’t get.
I keep hearing the same line of shit from the Obots “Stop being a sore loser”.
This is not a sports game, and that you are treating it like one goes straight to the heart of the problem with this entire campaign. You don’t say “stop being a sore loser” to someone in the middle of a war. And that is what we are in the middle of- a political war.
We are not going to lose a silly bet or bragging rights by losing this primary season. We will lose the heart and soul of the democratic party and all of the values that have made this party great since FDR will be thrown out the window. We are fighting to have our voices and our lives count. We are fighting because our party has been the big tent forever, but in this election cycle more and more of us (women, the poor and working classes, minorities) are being shoved out into an open field in a thunderstorm. Just like in my little roof metaphor, only now it is people who are supposed to by our allies doing the shoving and trampling.
Our votes cannot and should not be disenfranchised, marginalized, our disrespected. Our votes are earned, for us women we worked a fuck of a lot harder to get them than any of the Blogger Boyz ever did. We even worked harder than African American men did, though we worked to get them their votes too (and got thrown under the bus for 70 years for our troubles). So when someone tries to threaten and bully us into voting against our own self-interests,we know exactly what we are giving up.
Votes are earned. And Obama has not earned our votes. He has casually and callously dismissed them. And to be honest, I can’t see a moment when when there is enough water under the bridge for me to forgive that. You can’t shove us into the down pouring rain and then threaten us with broken umbrellas if we don’t agree with you. We’re all ready wet. A little more water won’t hurt us.
It’s too late for flowers and candy.
Perhaps if your candidate hadn’t spent the last 6 months being a misogynist douchebag things could be different.
Perhaps if he hadn’t thrown everyone under the bus except for you, things would be different.
Perhaps if you all hadn’t jumped on the Why won’t the stupid bitch quit already campaign, things would be different.
Perhaps if you all hadn’t spent the last three weeks declaring that the white underclass couldn’t possibly have valid opinons and that they are all just racists, things would be different.
Perhaps.
But it’s too late.
In fact, I think another post-sexual white woman said it best with this.
I am a negative 10 on the housewife scale. But I could have told you that without the test.
I received this morning’s email regarding your endorsement of Obama for president. All I can say is “et tu, NARAL?” Did ya drink the koolaid?
Since when has “some control over their own bodies” meant bodily autonomy. I already have “some” control over my own body. I choose what to eat and when to sleep and thankfully who I get to fuck. But NARAL, I counted on your political action to work towards getting me full bodily autonomy.
And now you’ve gone and endorsed a candidate who not only wouldn’t know reproductive rights from a hole in the ground (No, seriously- he had to be reminded by an aid that voting to confirm Roberts wouldn’t be good news for any of his female supporters because he just doesn’t think about things that don’t involve his penis) but he also thinks misogyny, race baiting and classism are viable campaign tactics. being that you are a POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE I would takes this to mean you think his political actions are just and good.
And for an organization whose stated goal’s include electing pro choice candidates, I am surprised that you endorsed Obama who has in no manner, way, shape or form shown himself to be pro choice. He has shown himself to be dodgey with his “present” votes in the Illinois senate on the issue and changeable with his comments on parental notification. But so far there is nothing about him that says definitively- “I believe women should have the full rights to their own bodies that men have”. Quite the opposite actually.
I applied to be one of you summer canvassers. Please tear up and or burn my resume. I will instead give my time and my money to PATH or Planned Parenthood or hell I’ll just stand on the streets and hand out free condoms, but I will not support an organization for choice that supports candidates who want to restrict my right to choose.
Sincerely,
RQ