Good god almighty - it’s like the farking GRE up in here, Hillary. Jeezus murphy jones, lady. I know you’re on the ropes, I know you’re a fighter, and I know you have to do something about the Mighty O, but DA-YUM.
This is the kind of shit - this and the sniping and sarcasm and comparing him to GW (which OHMYGAWD, has it really come to that? WTF??? Mere days after you said how honored you were to be in the contest with him???) - this shit, Hillary, is what turns people off politics, what makes them tired and cynical and aggravates their already irritable bowels. I know you’ve gotta make hay in Texas and Ohio or you’re done, I know your shit is freaked out, but come on. Come ON. Give us something more substantial - you’re the one who is always harping on empty rhetoric versus real action, so pick apart his policies with reasoned, clear arguments; go over his head and talk about McCain, show yourself to better equipped against the GOP, give us information, for the love of god, not this snide bitch-slap session. Voters are smarter than that - aren’t they? That’s what y’all keep saying, how much you respect the voters, and champion the people and their causes, how moved you are, personally, in your heart, to crusade for those who need you to be their voice of change.
So be it. If you are to go down, go down swinging, but let it be while giving voice and platform to the people you claim to serve, not trying to run game by distracting us from the real issues with these sour attacks on a man that you yourself have said is a worthy candidate. You can’t have it both ways, ma. And we’re smart enough to see that.
Aren’t we? Yo - aren’t we? Maybe that is the real question. Is the voting public discerning? Or are people swayed by comparisons to GW and verbal reasoning jibes?
Well, public? What have you got to say for yourself? What do you look for, listen to, act upon? What moves you? What do you want?
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Yeah, so see… I don’t really thinks she believes all that shit. I think she really DOES think she’s smarter and better than all of us and we should just listen to her…just because. I think she was trying to be nice(er), and now her real personality is shining through. And it makes her seem just plain mean, and it is clearly not working for her. And her elected experience has been…how long? So I find that to be an empty argument as well.
And sadly, it gives credence for some to say that she’s acting ‘just like a woman,’ bitchy and all. She’s back to that whole ‘right-wing conspiracy’ crap, as witnessed by her referencing the SNL skit last weekend. IN A DEBATE. WTF is up with that? It just makes her look crazy. ( Not even mentioning desperate.)
I don’t know, I’m just pretty disappointed in how she’s conducted herself.
Yeah, I don’t know - I actually really like Hillary, and I feel like she has a lot to recommend her, but Clinton campaign tactics have always made me break out in an itchy rash. They just end up seeming like trash-talking, punkass bullies - I felt the same way about Bill during his first run at the nomination.
Your comment about the ‘just like a woman’ thing is interesting to me, because I feel like what she’s doing is no different than what Bill has done, but somehow on her, on a woman, it hits people differently or is more offensive. This is something that has bugged me throughout the process, because I do feel like she’s had more of a challenge in terms of image and media because she’s female, and tactics that we perhaps condemn but tolerate in male candidates become major character flaws in a female. I know she’s got that whole “I’m the smartest girl in the class” thing going on, but I ask myself - why would a woman such as herself feel the need to act that way? Could it be that she is responding to a pressure that we don’t get to see, that there are subtle and overt attacks on her legitimacy that simply come with the territory of being one of few women in what is still an overwhelmingly male-centric system? I know Barack faces his own set of challenges being a black man, but he is still a man, and I don’t know….I am not interested in a pissing contest about who’s more oppressed, because that is not even the issue for me.
For me, it’s about wishing that these history-making candidates could have the courage to run their own race, and win or lose on the merits of their own ideas and hard work, not the ability to spin the media and impugn each other’s quality.
That said, I am totally with you on being disappointed with her. Whatever pressures she’s faced, there’s always a choice. And I have not been impressed with the ones she’s made.
Hell, I certainly don’t expect more (or less) from her for being a woman, and I really don’t think she’s been condemned or slighted by the media either. If anything, I think that mostly they’ve tried extra hard to be impartial and super-nicey-nice to both her and Obama. Maybe it’s just because of the historic nature of this race that they’re walking on eggshells, because they surely don’t want even a whiff of sexism or racism that may be in any way, shape or form misconstrued.
But last week when she did that raising her ‘hands to the heavens and the light shines down’ bit, well, that was just mocking the people who just don’t happen to like her. I think she (and you’re correct, Bill had it too) just can’t believe that we all can’t understand the sense of entitlement she feels for this. Talk about elitist.
Yeah, well - and that is the very thing that swayed me toward Obama - the sense that this woman, however many times she talks about the plight of the downtrodden, is very firmly fixed in the old school political machine that I am dying for someone to pummel.
Go O!