Yet another article about unhappy Hillary supporters who are having trouble bringing themselves to support Barack Obama, even when the only alternative is John McCain.
I've had trouble believing that anybody who REALLY supported Hillary Clinton could bring themselves to vote for the extremely Republican McCain instead. (There was that one day I was listening to NPR and they'd organized a round table of Clinton voters, and it was obvious that at least one of them was a regular Rush Limbaugh listener who barely had memorized his lines. "Uh... Obama may be Muslim... um..." ) The PUMA movement isn't as big as they'd like you to think that it is.
But then again, it's not fair of me. After all, I'm real - a woman who supported Obama during the primary and was actually disappointed when Hillary decided to enter the race. I always thought the issue was not that the country wasn't ready to elect a woman, but that she wasn't the right woman. More than that, though, Obama seems to me to be the right man.
And even if he's not the greatest choice (though to me he seems like a better one than many others we've been faced with lately!) it's so obvious to me that John McCain is a terrible choice - and he is in such direct opposition to many of the things Clinton and her supporters profess to care about - that why anybody would consider voting for him even for a second is beyond me.
Please, people - for the sake of the country, and for the women you're hoping to boost - get over yourselves! I realize that sounds arrogant, but please realize this is coming from a woman with a daughter who does not want to see another 4 or 8 years of the crap we've been living with since Bush took office. This is not just a setback for one woman, this a setback for women, men, and children all over this country.
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