I am a woman (part of HRC's large block of supporters) I'm NOT supporting HRC

madmunchie

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Wed Mar-12-08 07:01 PM
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I am a woman (part of HRC's large block of supporters) I'm NOT supporting HRC

I am ashamed of my peers.

I used to be a HRC fan, back in the 90's, Incensed at what was being said about the Clinton's stirred me to my very soul. I became more and more activated and vocal about the "raw deal" that the Clintons were handed in the 90's. The 2000's have been a nightmare. During which I have seen things that really disturb me to the point wanting to become one of the "silent majority".

So many Dems voting for the IWR, (including HRC and her excuse about being persuaded by Bush and the threat of WMD really is a hoot considering that HRC was IN the WH w/access to 8 years of information about Saddam. For her to be fooled by Bush when I, who wasn't in the WH and wasn't privy to all of the info and people that she had access to IS PATHETIC) Her subsequent votes and stances were very hawkish and she really never admitted that going into Iraq was a horrible mistake until YEARS after we were in, and it was quite obvious to anyone with an IQ over 100, that there was a horrible horrible decision made.) following up with her hawkish votes on Iran and her missteps on the Bankruptcy Bill.... Sure everybody makes errors, but combine those errors with THE MEDIA telling all of us that HRC would most certainly win the DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION 2 years BEFORE HRC even committed to running set off my alarm bells. Why would the media do that when they say, that in politics things can change overnight? Why did practically ALL of the pundits say this over and over again for 2 years????? What did they know that we did not? Where was their information coming from? Before 1 Primary was run, before HRC announced her candidacy, the media had her running and winning the Democratic Nomination for President? Since, when the fuck does my vote count with that being rammed down your throat for years?????? Were they trying to get us all USED to the idea? Much like Bush sold us Iraq? Were the powers that be driving this news story to get us all over sticker shock?????? I mean haven't the American People accepted all kinds of atrocities since Bush got in office?????? We are all on valium (maybe in the water) by taking all of the horrible things that we have taken and not been rioting in the streets. They know how to get us to "accept" things that we ordinarily would never have accepted a couple of decades ago.

Then there is Bill's new buddy Poppy BUSH, golfing together, doing humanitarian things together, sitting together at wakes and I ask, where is Jimmy Carter? Isn't Jimmy Carter a DEMOCRAT? Don't we get crucified on this board and sometimes thrown off for "appearing" to promote or accept Republicans? BUT when Clinton somehow strikes up a new friendship w/ Poppy....not Jimmy Carter, we all say - "isn't that nice"?????? WHILE his son is responsible for taking us to war on false pretenses, destroying our economy, taking away our rights......

Of course HRC's own behavior since the threat of Obama started becoming serious and started really threatening her chances to actually waltz into candidacy for the WH has really pushed me FIRMLY over the edge. I don't care that she could be the 1st woman in History to become POTUS. She would be an EMBARRASSMENT to my sex and is an embarrassment to my sex, WHY????, because I thought that we would be better than that. I thought we that we were as capable if not more so than any man to be POTUS. HRC has changed me from being a supporter and admirer in the 90's to being embarrassed and angry with her in 2008', no small task, believe me this is one change of mind that I didn't want to have but....Bush and Clinton, Clinton and Bush - come on, I didn't just fall off of a turnip truck, I wonder though, why did so many of my peers?