Letters to the Editor
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Vitriol ad infinitum
Well, I for one thought long and hard about supporting Hillary, but Bill was acting like a nut job in the weeks up to my primary, and Barack's stance on net neutrality, the war and a few other things swung me over to his camp. I also just can't wrap my head around a "Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton" series of presidencies.
That being said, I have defended Clinton against sexist remarks, and I've changed some minds about language usage while I was doing it, but every case I've seen has been a supporter, not Barack himself. I've seen "Claws come out" used against men and women, so I don't see that as inherently sexist. However, I've yet to see a single Clinton supporter step back from racist remarks (except the most offensive) made by either herself or her staff.
Seriously, can anyone truly tell me that Clinton's "found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me." comment doesn't smack of both classism and racism? Apparently, the only hard working Americans out there are now those who are white without college educations. I wish I'd known that earlier. Here I've been busting my ass, when I should be lying around drinking cappucino or something.