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How Barack Obama swept to victory in Iowa
In three different Des Moines precincts, a vote-by-vote account of how the Obama wave built.
By Mike Madden, Walter Shapiro and Joan Walsh [2008-01-04]

  • Hillary

    I'd like for us to have a female president, but I care a whole lot more about always having the right *person* in the job. Hillary's not that person. I'd have been overjoyed to vote for Elizabeth Dole in 2000 and wish she'd stayed in the race (I thought I was a conservative when I was 18--sue me.)

    I think olympia's right to a point--a certain, currently large and unfortunately politically active, segment of the population would never elect a female president. But they won't be here forever, at least in those numbers. And are they the people that any liberal or female candidate should be gunning for anyway, rather than the people who currently just don't vote?

    Yes, I have an immense and visceral aversion to Hillary--because in her grovelling she's said some of the most sanctimonious, stupid and ignorant things possible about people of my generation. So I don't trust her to lead us or act in our best interests.

    For instance, remember "Young people today think 'work' is a four-letter word?" (to the New York Chamber of Commerce in 2006)

    I had worked a 20-hour day on the day she said that.

    -- firefly82
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    Friday, January 4, 2008 04:18 PM
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