My Name is Hilary and I am not a Hillary Supporter
By Guest Blogger on Wed 14 May 2008 |
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By Hilary Franklin
For me, the race has been over since February 12, 2008. That’s when I voted for Barack Obama. I had originally planned on voting for John Edwards, but then he dropped out. Since then, I have tried my hardest to ignore any news related to the “Road to the White House.” However, lately, that’s been harder and harder to do. When Hillary Clinton lost the North Carolina primary, but eked out a narrow win in Indiana, I just groaned.
Hillary Clinton has been talking about the importance of gaining the popular vote and trying to convince superdelegates to vote for her at the democratic national convention. Unlike regular delegates, superdelegates may vote for whichever candidate they want. She’s right about that—it is important to “woo” the superdelegates. But as the “race” goes on, she has begun resorting to playing the “race” card. In 1968, that might have worked. This is 2008. We have a white woman running against a black man to become the democrat party nominee for the general election race, to run against John McCain.
This is 2008. This is supposed to be 40 years after the civil rights movement. Race should NOT be an issue. The issues should be. And instead of talking about how to create a resolution between all parties involved in the Iraq situation, how to generate money for improvements in education, how to boost the economy to pull us out of this “not-a-recession” recession and plummeting housing market, what is Hillary doing?
Celebrating the fact that she has more of the “white” vote than Obama.
From a CNN Political Ticker blog , these are just a few of Hillary’s quotes:
Clinton cited an Associated Press poll ‘that found how Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.’
‘These are the people you have to win if you’re a Democrat in sufficient numbers to actually win the election,’ she said. ‘Everybody knows that.’
and
‘I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on.’
These quotes smack of desperation and borderline racism to me. And even though she has:
* less financial support (she has, so far, lent her own campaign approximately $11 million)
* fewer delegates (1,686 to Obama’s 1,842)
* fewer counted votes (13,621,683 to Obama’s 14,132,579 votes).
* and cannot mathematically win the nomination (Slate Delegate calculator),
she is still fighting tooth-and-nail to keep this going. While some may admire her for her tenacity and perseverance, others are calling urgently for her to drop out. I’m joining the ranks of those saying that it’s time for her to end this. We need a presidential nominee who is respectful and does not resort to racist comments in an attempt to look good. Even I would consider voting Republican if it meant preventing Hillary from moving back into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Note: This was written prior to the West Virginia primary. However, the outcome of the primary does not affect the opinions put forth in the above blog.
Hilary Franklin is a politically incorrect writer. By day she masquerades as a technical writer in an educational research firm. She has come to the conclusion that everything she learned, she did indeed learn in kindergarten.
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I thought Clinton’s comment was really arrogant, and if one examines what she said… it’s laughable. This is a very crass thing to say, but in other words she’s really saying: Uneducated people are voting for me. Yay!
I don’t think that’s anything to be proud of, personally.
Is hillary clinton making some wrong moves? I agree.
Is she using the race card against obama? Yes.
Am I voting for hillary? No. I made my final decision for obama a while ago.
However…
Is she now required to step down?
NO. This is a democracy and it is her right to run if she wishes to. When mcgovern was tallying behind, did they ask him to step down? Nope. Dole? No. Dukakis? No.
Why hillary? What makes her special? Does she have less of a right to run for president as long as she wishes? What, other than the fact we don’t like what she is saying, to tell her, basically, “shut up and go away”, justification do we have?
Or is it because she’s stubborn, aggressive, demanding of our attention, and fights dirty? All of things women are not allowed to be? Like the so_called “psycho ex girlfriend”? The “fatal attraction” references? The “go home and make me a sandwich” comments?
Hillary may be playing the race card, but she certainly is being snowed with the gender card!
Hi Katie! Nice comment… it’s not so much the idea of being a “fatal attraction” type of woman… but the idea of someone who seems more than willing to play dirty and make borderline racist comments who would be representing US as a country, as our eminent world leader. I want to have a President who encourages working together rather than one who creates divisiveness. (Is that a word?) :)
Hope the northwest is treating you well!
I completely agree with you. I don’t like what she’s doing, either. I would like for her to either 1) stop the racist attacks and focus on McCain for a change, which will benefit the Dem party as a whole or 2) step down if she’s inclined to do so.
But why do pundits *have* to use such sexist language? And why isn’t there anybody out there saying, “the press is more than wiling to play dirty and make overly sexist comments about who someone who could be representing US a country, as our eminent world leader.” I want to have a press that encourages real discourse and in depth discussion about her flaws as a leader, which by the way, have nothing whatsover with her gender. I could think of a few good reasons why I won’t vote for her, and it has nothing to do with her being a woman. People scream bloody murder about her pandering to the racist, then turn right around and call her a b***h, c**t, and whatever filthy word they can think of to degrade her as a woman. Most of the stuff I read is all about her being ugly, being psycho, whatever, all that stuff they say to put down women.
this bugs me.
if it’s okay to call hillary those words, it sure is okay to call me those words, too.
Hey Katie,
There’s truth to what you’re saying (especially with the media more outraged over racism than sexism), but I’ll play the Devil’s advocate here. Perhaps when you don’t like somebody and resort to bring them down with personal attacks, it’s hard to keep their demographic identity from seeping into your barbs- regardless if you’re black, female or a white man. Woman = bitch, psycho, etc. as you mentioned. Man = *******, jerk, and so forth. I don’t even have to utter examples for black people. Certain insults are reserved for certain demography slices.
I do wonder if people would be calling on Hillary to quit (actually only 38% of democrats and democrat-leaning independents say she should quit in a recent poll) if she was a man. That said, it’s probably true that the longer Clinton stays in, the better McCain’s chances are. I read that 9 times out of the last 10 elections, the party that nominated their candidate earlier won.
“hard to keep their demographic identity from seeping into your barbs- regardless if you’re black, female or a white man”
Correction: regardless if THEY’re black, female, or white men…”
Xor,
You just made a legitimate criticism. Yes, it could have negative impact if she stays in.
I completely agree.
See, people, how easy it is to criticize hillary without falling back on sexist remarks?
But then again, she has the right to run if she wants, and to have her decision respected.
Period.
Oh, everyone has the right to run if they want. But if we want democratic party unity so we can run a strong general election race, then something has to happen. For all the talk she professes about the importance of unity, her comments are just creating more division. At least, that’s how I see it.
Plus, the more campaigning between Hillary and Obama, the less time spent researching McCain’s history and his stand on the real issues, etc.
:)
Well, as a conservative Republican, all I can say is, please pass along popcorn! ;)
One thing I think most people do not realize is a possibility that Obama may be the weakest candidate of two. Ever since Wright scandal, Obama showed inability to win over key white working-class voters, a vital part of Democratic voting bloc in general election. Based on this fact, he is going to have a tough time winning key states where no sizable black population resides.
Wright scandal alone is probably enough to knock Obama out of general election, but that’s not only reason Obama is in hot water. His wife is also a serious liability, having said things she shouldn’t have said in the first place. Indeed, that’s going to kill or at least seriously damage Obama’s chances of winning over voters. Moreover, his foreign policy eperience is laughable, that’s gonna hurt him as well when compared to McCain.
Obama has so many flaws in his character, it’s hard to believe that he has come this far. Of course, having media on his side helps a lot, despite the taint of Wright scandal and other major gaffes.
Really…all McCain have to is to let 527s run every Wright ad they can think of right up to Election Day. That’s enough to kill Obama, that is if his mouth doesn’t start to run off on things he really shouldn’t say in the first place. Like for instance, today Obama announced that Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba aren’t theats to US national security when in fact they are significant threats. Iran’s nuclear program was in existence long before 9/11 came around, and every day it’s progressing to its final goal: producing a nuclear bomb. Venezuela is known for supplying arms and financing FARC group in Colombia. FARC group is known for planting and selling cocaine to drug cartels, and destabilizing a loyal US ally’s legitimate government in Bogota. Cuba is in bed with Venezuela, having supplied her with experts and money in order to gain a major foothold within South America. Obama doesn’t realize that, and mark my word, it’s going to cost him lots of voters.
Nonetheless, in any case, I want to thank you for giving me…The. Best. Democratic. Primary. Ever!
Now, please do pass along popcorn. ;)
Am popping up here momentarily to pipe up about HRC (For those who don’t know the acronym here–Hillary Rodham Clinton)…I am definitely not going to vote for her because I don’t have much faith in her even though she’s been a politician for some time now. Why?
First of all, at the time when when her husband first won the Presidency, she organized, managed, and controlled the health care reform efforts but nothing ever came of it after much debate and discussions. Now that she’s brought up the health system as a presidential candidate, I don’t have VERY much confidence that she will get anything done with the health care system in this country. She probably will just talk ad nauseum about this issue but nothing, like before, will never come out of it.
Second of all, I am VERY leery of the fact that her husband will be back in the White House. I just feel that he will try to manipulate things politically even though he’s not the President anymore. Secondly, he desecrated the White House with his sexual exploits while as President before. Who is to say that he won’t do it again??? Hillary is fooling herself if she says that he won’t stray off the beaten path again the second time around. The man has no morals, period.
Third and final, I don’t like her dirty political methods that she and her campaign has pulled so far. She will do ANYTHING to try to win at other’s expense.
As for the other candidates, I don’t even like Obama for several reasons and don’t even get me started on John McCain as he’s got his own issues/problems that he hasn’t overcome yet (and probably never will).
I don’t think this presidential campaign has any good solid and viable candidates that I’d like to vote for. We seriously need a strong candidate who can 1) turn around this sinking economy; 2) focus on domestic issues that is sorely needed at this time; 3) stop the flow of money to Iraq (stop funding the war when we probably will not win by any means due to a very cunning and evasive enemy in Iraq (John McCain believes we may win in 2013 and I wonder how he came up with that magic number; and 4) get a grip on food/gas prices that are spiraling out of control nowadays.
That’s all I’ll say at this point.
One other thing- Why vote for John McCain to prevent Hillary from going into the White House? John has made it very well known that he supports the Iraq war and believes that we will “win” the war in 2013. Are we well aware of the costs of this war which now total some 500 BILLION(!) dollars? Do you think that John will NOT spend any more of our hard earned tax dollars on this ridiculous war? The american public is tired of supporting the war both morally and financially. How much more $$$ are we willing to part with just to “win” this war? At what cost? Our children’s future? Why are the republicans so intent upon mortgaging our kid’s future for this stupid war that should never have begun in the first place? Bush thought that Iraq had WMD but it later was proven that they never had them in the first place.
I fear that John McCain will just continue the war and the funding of it therein after he takes office. We desperately need that money domestically. We have many other programs that need to be funded and social security is one of them. Last I heard, that our younger generation including mine isn’t going to be as secure as our parents because the government is predicting that our social security benefits will be scaled back 30%!! WTF? I paid into it and I should get the FULL benefits that I paid for.
So, this is ONE of the many reasons why I don’t want John McCain in office. I won’t vote for John just merely to prevent Hillary from going into the White House.