I am a huge Hillary Clinton fan. Huge. I think she would have made an awesome president, and it saddens me that she probably won’t get her shot now. I wanted her to win the Democratic nomination over Obama, but now that he’s won, he has my full support. I frankly don’t understand how anyone could be a Hillary supporter, and then move over and back McCain. It flies in the face of all that she stands for, and it’s akin to cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I was so disappointed that Obama didn’t choose her as his Vice President. I knew he wasn’t going to, but I held some misguided hope right up until he announced Biden as his choice. Now, I like Biden. I think he seems like a smart, sweet (if overly chatty!) man, and he’s (hopefully! Knock on wood!) going to make a wonderful VP. But my initial reaction was that he was a very safe choice. Another rich, white male. Ho hum. Yawn… The only thing that made it interesting was that THIS time the rich white man was the BOTTOM of the ticket. The VP to the rich BLACK man running for President. Hmmm… Maybe not the same old same old after all.
Before Obama announced his choice, I was telling anyone who would listen that McCain was going to pick a woman if Obama didn’t choose Hillary. He was going to do it to try and win over the disappointed women who loved Hillary. I figured if Obama did choose Hillary, then McCain would choose either a black man, or a Hispanic man to try and balance the ticket racially. I’ll never know if I was right about the second part, but I was spot on with the first.
When McCain announced Sarah Palin as his running mate I ran around the room screaming “I KNEW it! TOLD ya so! In your FACE!” while my family rolled their eyes and told me to shush and go take my medication.
I knew very little about the Alaskan Governor, and I admit to initially being very excited by the choice. She was pretty, she had a baby with a disability, she had five kids with unusual names, she was a governor so she had to be pretty smart, right? I mean, Bill Clinton was a governor before he was President and he’s a genius. These were all things in her favor, and I was all ready to love her (but not to vote for her. I don’t like John McCain. Period.) and then… she opened her mouth. Sigh…
Turns out she can’t answer questions unless she’s coached. Turns out she doesn’t tend to make a lot of sense in what she does say. Turns out that she’s got ethics problems. Turns out that McCain probably should have thought this MAJOR decision through a bit more instead of running off half-cocked and trying to out Obama Obama. Because it just might cost him the election.
I don’t hate Palin, I just wish that she were more of a serious candidate. I wish she had some heft behind her. I wish she were Hillary’s intellectual equal. I actually prayed for her before her debate with Biden because as much as I wanted Biden to win (which he did. Easily), I didn’t want to watch her stand there like a deer-in-the-headlights, frozen and unable to do anything but babble out her talking points. I hate to see women fail and I can’t believe I am going to have to vote against only the second woman ever to run in the VP spot. I was too young to vote for Ferraro, and I’m too much of a Democrat to vote for Palin.
Right now, I worry about a McCain presidency. The man is 72. If he dies in office, she’s the president. Tell me that doesn’t send a chill right down your spine.
Ths cartoon ran on 12/18/05. It discusses this very thing, and hopefully, Manny was wrong. I finally have my answer.
I’ll end with these two pro-Obama videos that my sister and my dad sent me this morning. They are too good not to share (I warned you that it would be election central around here). The first one is narrated by Steve from Blue’s Clues fame, which is kind of weird, but funny. I think he created it. The ony line I don’t agree with is he talks about Sarah Palin’s voodoo prayers, and as a Christian, the wide-spread poking fun of her beliefs bothers me. But the rest is funny. The second one is just a link, and it’s personalized with my name, but it shows you how you can personalize it with any of your friend’s names and send it on. I thought it was pretty clever. There is some bleeped out language in the both videos.
5 comments
Comments feed for this article
October 28, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Ted Seeber
Why I, as a deeply conservative Catholic male, can’t bring myself to vote Republican any more:
#1. For 17 out of the past 35 years, there has been a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, a Republican majority in Congress, and a Republican President. I see no evidence in that time of either Roe V. Wade being reversed or a significant push towards a Right to Life amendment. Therefore, I must conclude that the Republican claim to being pro-life is, at best, a campaign promise-lie.
#2. Exodus 22:21-26 bans the charging of interest, but the Republicans not only base our entire economy on credit but encourage banks to overleverage between 40:1 and 200:1. Talk about moral danger of socialism, we’ve just given $70 billion to a bunch of bank execs who obviously aren’t very conservative or Christian, in bonuses as part of a bigger “bailout”.
#3. Lack of support for working families. They want to reduce abortion, but apparently don’t want to pay for it.
#4. War, death penalty, euthanasia. What part of “protect human life from conception until NATURAL death” don’t you people GET?!?!?!?
Obama’s winning in my state anyway, so I’m going to vote the anti-McCain vote of Chuck Baldwin…..
October 28, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Kate
“Right now, I worry about a McCain presidency. The man is 72. If he dies in office, she’s the president. Tell me that doesn’t send a chill right down your spine.”
That doesn’t send a chill right down my spine.
It doesn’t.
The idea of Barack Obama sends more chills throughout my whole body (and they’re not the good kind) than the idea of Sarah Palin eventually becoming President if McCain died.
I don’t like McCain, but I dislike Obama more.
‘Course, you already knew that! LOL
October 28, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Ted Seeber
If Marge Thatcher was “Reagan with a blue dress on” is Palin “W with a Blue Dress On”?
October 28, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Kathy
I’ve already voted Obama, but please don’t take a chance of McCain pulling it out by casting your vote for a third party. It’s just too risky.
For a fun thing, if you don’t mind making fun of Palin, try this link
http://www.palinaspresident.us/
roll your mouse over the page and when you can, click on everything to watch
Do the closet door more than once, and don’t forget the desk panels.
Kathy
October 29, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Ted Seeber
I’m in Oregon. There is absolutely ZERO chance of McCain pulling it out here, even with green party spoilers. Last I saw Obama was ahead 15% in the polls here.