I Guess It's Obama

By: kathstack
Published On: 2/11/2008 11:02:22 AM

 
Until the last day or so, I was determined to vote my first choice in the Virginia primary tomorrow, even though John Edwards has "suspended" his campaign. Whatever that means.

I thought it was important to send him to what looks increasingly like a brokered convention with as many delegates as possible, and he is, after all, the candidate who most closely mirrors my views.

But I've changed my mind. I will vote for Barrack Obama in the primary, because it now seems to me the best way to stop Hillary Clinton. I have doubts about some of Obama's policies, but none about his toughness--he came up through Illinois and Cook County politics, which is really all you have to know about him in this regard. I think insofar as his advisors give clues to what his long-term policies will be, I am much happier with him than with Mark Penn and the other machine liberals supporting Clinton.

And I really don't like Clinton and the whole DLC, GOP-lite wing of the party she embodies. She is the Democratic past, and a none to savory past it is. Further, I am offended by the notion that just because I'm an old white woman I have to vote for her.

Yes, I am a feminist pioneer, if you want to put it that way--way back when, I even filed an Equal Employment Opportunities Commission suit (the year it became legal to do so) for equal pay. Won it too.

So, I can say with some authority that Hillary gives little evidence of understanding feminism and has not practiced its core principles in her public life. Even to this day, she's leaning on Bill. Bah!

I hope Obama turns out to be as good as his die-hard supporters believe--I'm casting my vote in the belief that he'd be better than Hillary. And that's the choice.
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By the way, has anyone mentioned that some reports have it that Maggie Williams made her bones in fund-raising?


Comments



Excellent (NGB - 2/11/2008 12:33:04 PM)
Good to hear!


I couldnt agree more! (proudvadem - 2/11/2008 4:16:18 PM)
Im not a fan of the whole DLC wing of the party, I tell friends (to quote Paul Wellstone who originally said) "I'm a Democrat from the Democratic wing of the party.


Great diary (True Blue - 2/11/2008 5:39:45 PM)
Glad to have you aboard.