Today is Super Tuesday

[ellid]

And I voted for Barack Obama. I really, really wished that I could have voted for Hillary Clinton, but after I read this article in Mother Jones, I simply couldn't. There's too much Dominionist/Religious Right in Washington as it is without them having a potential Democratic President in their Bible study groups. I also have no desire to see a revival of Whitewater, the Arkansas Project, or all of the other baggage that anyone named "Clinton" will bring to the White House unless Richard Mellon Scaife and all his minions suddenly drop dead and take the Washington Times and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review with them.

She's been a decent Senator, and I will vote for her in the fall if she wins the Democratic nomination, but not today. It damn near broke my heart because I would LOVE to see a woman President, but not this one.

Comments

[gmonkey42.livejournal.com]

And I voted for Barack Obama. I really, really wished that I could have voted for Hillary Clinton

I could say exactly the same thing.

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

*nod* I couldn't agree more. And the hell of it is, I *like* Hillary. I would have voted for her in a heartbeat in 1992. But all the accumulated baggage over the years, plus the potential Dominionist issues...*sigh*

I just wish I knew how much followthrough Obama has. It's frustrating.

[aragon-san.livejournal.com]

You spoke my mind - and heart! Exactly what I've been thinking and struggling with. Minus the actually voting-part obviously, as a non-American ^_~

I'd have loved a female Democratic President too! Though I wasn't too keen on someone hailing from the ultra-privileged establishment that has kept political and financial power among themselves for decades, I notice that practically every candidate came/comes from such a background of a few hundred families, so what the heck. But that article and her apparent religious leanings really freaked me out!

[purplefluffycat.livejournal.com]

If I were American, I'd feel exactly in the same frig. This is exactly the sort of post that the Hillary-team ought to see - to show her exactly how she's alienating people who would otherwise have felt completely on her side.

PurpleFluffyCat x