Letters to the Editor
SocsandTwigs
Published Letters: 219 Editor's Choice: 1
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Think you've answered your own question ....
[Read the article: Undecided '08: Should I vote for Clinton or Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Rebecca, It's interesting to hear your thoughts, but I'd like to ask you to read your "essay" again, or just look at the exerpts I've provided below. My overall response, after reading your blog is that it sounds like you are pretty tortured by not voting for an existing female candidate. I'm with you on that ... I'm a white 42 year old liberal progressive democrat female ... I'd love to be able to vote for a female president in my lifetime. I thought about Hillary. However, I have decided (especially after the round of rough Rove-esque campaigning in SC) that I can't support a woman just because she is a woman. I think you put it pretty eloquently & I agree:
"There is shame in voting for Hillary Clinton, make no mistake -- pulling a lever for someone who voted for Iraq and proposed anti-flag-burning legislation provokes its own brand of self-loathing."
Where I get a bit lost is where you go on that:
"... she's brilliant, that she's competent, that she knows her shit inside and out, that she's battle-tested, tough as nails, and that she wipes the floor with Obama in the debates. She provides a steel-solid track record, he a nimbus of vague hop"
I guess I just don't get the "experience" argument with Hillary ... what is her "steel-solid" track record? The truth is that in her time in the Senate, which is the vast part of her "experience", 7 years mind you, she has consistently folded to the right on many, many issues. In fact, to me, she is very remniscent of a "Thatcher-esque" figure and she scares the hell out of me with what she might get into with foreign policy.
On the other hand, we have the equally brilliant, and tested figure of Obama ... as you say:
"a young person, someone with fresh ideas, a man beholden to few in Washington, a candidate who has lived around the world, who does not seem to take a cowboy approach to foreign policy, who has forsaken big business opportunities in order to address the problems of the working class."
I would also add that I'm suprised that so many have been taken with Edward's grasping of the "poverty" mantle. I mean, I like the guy, esp the angry version we got with this campaign. But this reincarnation is so fresh, and indeed his role in politics only came about after he won his big bucks as a lawyer. Obama came out of law school and worked on the streets in Chicago as you seem aware of ...
so, really, I'd just like to ask you to look at the facts and vote with your head and not your heart (well, I actually use both), and I think you'll join me in voting for Obama.
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Again I Ask ...
[Read the article: Undecided '08: Should I vote for Clinton or Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]As I ask on most blogs ...
How exactly do you justify the statement that "...Hillary Clinton has done much for this country"?
Just please, give me some examples because I know of none!
Her "centrist" politics helped lead us to war ... people have been killed, we are a hated entity in the world. Is she justified in her votes on Iraq and Iran because they may help her get elected?
I'm sorry, but I need some real examples of what she has done or accomplished? I agree she has been unfairly maligned, horribly set up for humiliation (by her husband) while in the White House. I feel sorry for her. But this is not enough to get my vote, and that, and her gender, should not be enough to get anyone's vote.
Please, please vote on substance!!!
Finally, on electability -
1) I think the Hil-Bill team has been equally as bad as any GOP attacks will be, and Obama has handled it quite nicely (& thrown it back in their faces).
2) This doesn't go into my calculus, but there is NO WAY that Hillary can win a national campaign. Do you even realize how many republicans have come out in favor of Obama? Do you realize how a Clinton candidacy could REALLY galvenize the right. And do you realize that there are a lot of liberal progressives like me who simply cannot stomach the idea of voting for someone who cannot admit a mistake on the most important vote of the 21st century (Iraq)? I don't know if I can bring myself to vote for McCain, but I have to say one thing for the guy, at least he is honest. I think a lot of us are just sick of deception and spin, and this election may send a message on that topic whether Obama is the dem candidate or not. Think about it.
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still waiting ....
[Read the article: Undecided '08: Should I vote for Clinton or Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to hear about any of Hillary's "experience" ...
c'mon ... just one teenie weenie one? ....
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What states would Obama win that Gore and Kerry lost?
[Read the article: Undecided '08: Should I vote for Clinton or Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Start with SC, NC, and Georgia for a few ....
I know NC and Georgia are just predictions, but I think there were a few more dem voters out in the SC primary & Obama stormed that one ... hmmmmmmmmmmm
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What states would Obama win that Gore and Kerry lost?
[Read the article: Undecided '08: Should I vote for Clinton or Obama?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Start with SC, NC, and Georgia for a few ....
I know NC and Georgia are just predictions, but I think there were a few more dem voters out in the SC primary & Obama stormed that one ... hmmmmmmmmmmm
if you voted for Nader over Kerry, you deserve what you got ... Kerry would have made a great president (I have worked with him)