Letters to the Editor
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Obama supporters who continue to disrespect Hillary do so at their own peril...
I'm going to need to stop reading blogs and watching television for a while. It is time for getting back to good novels,gardening,cooking for friends and local politics. This campaign cycle has really been bad for my mental health and my belief in this country.Particulary when it comes to the youth as represented online.What a mean bunch.
I think I have made up my mind what I am going to do and I would not be surprised if other like minded women have come to the same conclusion. I cannot find it in myself to reward the behavior of the Obama campaign,it's supporters,the media and the bully blogger boyz.
I cannot support a party or candidate that took it upon themselves to take down the only successful Democrats of my lifetime. They have done it using Republican lies,sexism and racial threats (ie"you are a racist it you prefer another candidate")Party leaders out of their own cynical self-interest(they can't be reelected without the AA vote)have given no factual push back. Women and their pride in the first women candidate have been threatened,bullied,ignored,belittled, marginalized.Our candidate has been unfairly demonized in the most vulgar and vaguely and sometimes not so vaguely sexually threatening ways.I can't forgive any of it. Call me a stubborn,old, Irish, women who holds grudges but I won't reward it.
There will be a great effort to make women worry about Supreme Court nominations. I'm tempted to just say let the post feminists worry about that.They have been so happy to go along with the boys, let's just see where that will get them in the long run. I wish each would take a long hard look at themselves and ask this question, " Am I intimidated by the backlash that will come if I declare myself interested in women's rights?"
By all accounts the Democrats will enjoy increased majorities in both the House and the Senate regardless of who wins the presidency. If they are unable to block a McCain appointment who would end Roe vs Wade then we will know just how committed Democrats are to women's rights.