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It's so ironic. For months I was bombarded with charges of misogyny because I wouldn't vote for Hillary. No matter how much I protested that I opposed her because she voted with the Republicans on key issues, her supporters insisted that I must be a gynophobic chauvinist pig.
And now many of them are supporting a man who's now voting like a Republican, and I'm voting for a woman: Cynthia McKinney.
There's been too much irony lately. We Democrats sneered at Republicans for betraying every principle of classic pre-1960s Republicanism in their fervent worship of George W. Bush; we Democrats revered our democratic principles, not our leaders and political power.
But now the vast majority of Democrats are eagerly making excuses for Obama's inexcusable decision to throw the 1st and 4th Amendments under a bus. And in many cases, they're using the exact same arguments as the Republicans did for all those years.
I would like to live in a less ironic world, please.
