Its a huge turnoff, I then want to backup Hill.
Before the caucus and primary I really could care less about the election. I did the usual peripheral reading. Being a New Yorker I was not that happy with some of Hillary’s senatorial actions. I was signed up for Al Gore and Barack Obama.
Those two fizzed out. I soon found out that Al Gore was not behind the campaign. When they asked me for more money or assistance again I told them no and why, he isn’t in it. Al Gore has too much integrity to run as an independent, he’s a Democrat, period. Barack Obama had some great evangelistic preachings, but once you are out of his reach you do ask, what has he done and what is he really saying? I didn’t notice until I started to do some research the last few days. The emails the Obama campaign sent me grew tiresome, particularly that everyone was tattling on Hillary for the pettiest things she might have said and they were asking for money each and every time. I started to look up who was giving them money. I wasn’t happy they were partners with hedge funders and private equity. Then I found out Altria, et tu brute.
On today’s C-Span’s “Campaign 2008″ coverage of Barack Obama’s evening meeting the news reporter was interviewing the audience. She asked a woman, why not Hillary Clinton?
It was quite shocking to hear the answer. That this woman blamed Hillary for her husband’s White House. She said Hillary did not spend enough time being a mother in the home. Shocking to me, Hillary was an excellent mother to Chelsea. Chelsea has her light.
I heard other women giving really blanket reasons why they were for Obama. Mainly he resonated with their middle class bearings. Do they know who is funding him?
All day I have been seeing this blatant discrimination of Hillary. If Hillary was a man we would not have seen any of this unfairness, this lack of democracy.
Hillary Clinton’s “It Takes A Village (and other Lessons Children Teach Us)” is in its 10th Anniversary Edition. She wrote the award-winning book while she was in the White House, the book was published in 1996. Only a good mother could write:
“All of us, whether we like it or not, are responsible for deciding whether our children are raised in a nation that just doesn’t espouse family values, but values family and children.”
On the First Ladies site, she writes:
“During the 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton observed, “Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the best we can to find whatever the right balance is . . . For me, that balance is family, work, and service.”
In its October, 2007 issue, the New York Magazine interviewed the late Benazir Bhutto. They asked this beautiful leader and mother who was able to transcend her Sindhi ethnicity and gender to achieve excellence for her country about criticisms of Hillary Clinton:
“One thing people often say to me is that Bill Clinton is a very warm leader and that Hillary is much colder. But I think that women leaders tend to be a little bit withdrawn, to protect themselves from unkind comments. When a male leader is warm, it’s not misinterpreted. Whereas if a female leader is warm, it can have certain connotations. So a female leader has to be more restrained, in a sense.”
I think Hillary should take her focus off Obama. Focus on herself. Give back the energy to who she is. No matter what the boys say Today is your very first day on the campaign. Do something different. As she has already asked the people to work with her, she should continue in that vein, to work out her agenda with the people, refine it through them. In her own words “It takes a Village.” Her fine record speaks for itself, it needs no telling or energy expended. She should celebrate her unique ability to network warmly with both sides of the aisle. She should know that she is stronger, she doesn’t avoid or just be present when there is an issue to be worked out. Knowing these things, she doesn’t have to tell them.
There are many points that I have not liked about what Hillary did in Washington. Yet, I look at all the alternatives and say, it was tough, and she worked hard to keep the integrity of her vote, she did not avoid it. She is asking her voters to tell her what they want of her. How many candidates are saying that? None. I will go to the New York primary.
I will talk to her about her cautious but expeditious plan to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan. She says that there will be national health care. I do hope this does not mean continuation of a government system that does not work or continued padding of the insurance companies pockets. I expect immigration to be sorted out better. It shouldn’t be that “legal” immigration is what benefits the corporations and “illegal” immigration is what benefits the household and golf course. Americans have much talent and “legal” immigration robs them of the chance of having a fulfilling profession. This “legal” thing started out with autoworkers, then techworkers, then advertising, now legal and accounting field (outsourcing, i.e. out of this country). Notice most Republican and many of the Democratic candidates will call “legal” immigration the vitality of this country called America. Those are my top three issues. I wonder if there will be a candidate that is really for America, because that is what America wants.
I do wish that Hillary would change the background of her campaign. We don’t need Bill or Albright nor do we want them. Are they a part of Hillary’s current experience? Many people don’t like that experience that is why she is losing ground by having that background. They remind us of the militarisation of the Taliban, they remind of us the IT immigration beginnings, they remind us of the very hard 8 years her husband had in the White House. How he did not achieve his potential because he was not strong enough to not avoid the issue. I think Hillary does not avoid the issue. At least that is not how her voting record reads. I’d like to see her campaign background be strikingly filled with a mix of health workers, young people, black people, hispanics, chinese, and older people.
