Comments on: Well

By: AnnaAnastasia

AnnaAnastasia — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:11:40 +0000

“Hillary Clinton is like a mother standing on a bridge threatening to throw her baby in the river unless she is named Mother of the Year.”

Oooo - got any metaphors for Clinton as a secretary, nurse, French maid, or prostitute? We wouldn’t want to ignore her status as a female, would we?

By: notgunnadoit

notgunnadoit — Fri, 23 May 2008 20:14:04 +0000

Since there’s no way you vote for Hil, I take it you understand how someone else might say
“No-way-in-this-lifetime-not-even-after-the-rip-in-the-fabric-of-time am I voting for a ni-ni-ni-ni-newcomer with no experience.” And your decision is based on “bad behavior” from the cu-cu-cu-confused old woman and that makes you right? OK, let’s look at bad behavior. Obama started out by sending a battery of lawyers to the election board at the eleventh hour to kneecap all the other democratic candidates in his first election bid so he could run unopposed, as befits a charismatic messiah. You do understand we are watching a political campaign, not something tame, like legislation or sausage being made. And I know women take too long but again this is not her fault. South Dakota and Montana are doing exactly what the Democratic Party told them to do, vote in June, and Fl-Mi did what their state (Republican) legislatures forced them to do, vote in 1949, or whenever this thing started. Finally, the Lion of the Senate had no problem going to the convention 750 delegates short. But he’s a man and he never did anything bad like get drunk and kill somebody. Oh, wait. Wow,sometimes Democrats do a bad, bad thing and still deserve R-E-S-P-E-C-T. I have to stop now. The hyphen key is broken.

By: makeitstop

makeitstop — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:38:13 +0000

It’s all a tough choice, and I sure hope I don’t have to make it either. Like everyone else here it seems, I was an Edwards fan so I’m not getting my first choice anyway.

By: TomHilton

TomHilton — Fri, 23 May 2008 19:03:54 +0000

Aw, shucks…

By: HalloweenJack

HalloweenJack — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:24:34 +0000

If it came down to that, I’d vote for Clinton over McCain in the general, but I think that I’d have to have a stiff drink or two first. And maybe bring a wax paper bag into the booth with me.

By: TheRealityBasedDave

TheRealityBasedDave — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:45:11 +0000

Clinton, for reasons that I want desperately to understand, has chosen to abandon these norms and instead choose a destructive, divisive path.

She’s setting herself up for ‘12. She knows she won’t win the nomination, so she is damaging Obama as much as possible. She wants McCain to win this election. When ‘12 rolls around, McCain will be a proven disaster. She will run as the only cantidate that can beat McCain, since Obama already lost to him.

2 months ago Obama & Hillary should have been running against McCain.

By: MarkD

MarkD — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:49:58 +0000

Here’s my thought process:

At this point, the thought of voting for Hillary makes me want to vomit. Her continual moving of the goalposts, her ricockulous gas tax pandering, her ugly and divisive surrogates, and her hypocritical supporters (who call Obama folks a cult while promising never to vote for anyone but Hillary) all make it a choice I’d really rather not have to make.

But it’s a choice I do have to make. Not because I like rewarding bad behavior — after all, I don’t give my soon-to-be four-year-old a bowl of ice cream after he throws a tantrum. But when I think about voting for McCain over Clinton (if such a thing happens), I have to consider what I want for my country.

Do I want two more Scalia’s on the Supreme Court who will rip away the rights of workers, women and the LGBT community?

Do I want more wars in the Middle East?

Do I want Iraq war to continue for at least four more years?

Do I want to continue paying insane prices for gas and food?

Do I want to have the Earth continually treated like an outhouse by every corporation who donates enough campaign cash?

Do I want the rich to continue paying less in taxes than I do?

Do I want to cash in yet another one of our 401(k)’s to pay medical debt (like we did last year)?

No. Hell no. No way. Please no. Um … no. Nope. And hell fucking no.

So my only choice between McCain and Clinton is … Clinton.

It’s a crappy choice on some levels, and it would once again be a case of voting against someone rather than for someone.

But that’s just on a personal level—when you put aside the anger at her campaign’s stupidity and mendacity, her policies aren’t all that different from Obama’s and are ones I can easily support.

And in the end, that’s what it comes down to: Voting for the policies I believe will lead the country in the direction it needs to go and, in the process, helping those families who need it. Including mine.

Any animosity I have toward the political actions of the person enacting those policies is secondary.

By: Mungencakes

Mungencakes — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:18:19 +0000

I will never let my vote go fallow when there’s a Pervublican to vote against. Especially someone as McSame as Sidney is. Unlike TBogg, I do worse when there’s a Pervublican in the White House. The 00’s and the 80’s sucked for me.

I don’t want to reward Clinton. She’s been a naughty girl, and probably a nasty, naughty girl. But my desire to shun her will never sway me into letting Sidney anywhere near the presidency. Can’t do it.

By: emmatx

emmatx — Fri, 23 May 2008 14:16:22 +0000

thanks tomhilton, i did know that but until recently i’ve been so crazy busy with work i haven’t added to my blog reading list at all. now it’s a different story though. and incidentally, i think you rock too

By: Inappropriateresponse

Inappropriateresponse — Fri, 23 May 2008 13:28:08 +0000

Many years ago, a friend told me that if he had to choose between voting for Margaret Thatcher and voting for Armageddon, he would abstain.