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FEMINIST PLEA TO HILLARY / QUIT BEFORE YOU LOOK EVEN MORE FOOLISH
Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2008/05/25.html
" I'm one of those feminists whom Rush Limbaugh would happily call a "Feminazi". I attended university in the seventies, graduating with a minor in "Women's Studies" even though I had more units in Women's Studies than I carried for my major! I took some of the first Women's Studies classes offered in a larger university, classes which grew directly from the grass roots feminist movement, and it was truly a fantastic time for me to get such an education. It was just after the hippie movement peaked and the Viet Nam war had ended, when the feminist movement had finally found a cohesive voice.
It was great to get to know all those women, and learn about ideas that had previously been withheld from us, the 'fairer sex'. And we all hoped one day soon, there would be a woman as president.
That was over thirty years ago, and finally, this year, a viable woman candidate appeared. Or so it seemed. You would think that me and all my friends from college would be dancing in public, cheering for the fact that a woman was in a good position to be our next president.
But that was hardly the case.
I wouldn't vote for Hillary under any circumstances. Her complete and utter lack of caring about what the people of the United States want is just the tip of the iceberg. All I ever hear from her is Hillary, Hillary, Hillary, and nothing else! It’s all about how victimized she is, or else she’s contstantly apologizing for making the most offensive of remarks, from the possible assassination of Obama to lying about being under fire when nothing of the sort ever happened. It is now to the point that she has no time to discuss campaign issues because she’s too busy apologizing for her many stupid remarks, lies and for playing ‘cards’ that should never be part of any presidential campaign.
The time has passed for her to be truthful! No one is going to believe her now.
Her every comment revolves around how she can acquire the presidency and nothing is ever heard about what she would do with it! There are threats to blow up Iran, despite the fact that such an act would murder millions of innocent victims. This is Hillary's attempt to suck up to Israel rather than represent what the American public wants in the Middle East: PEACE! She has also chosen to also suck up to the healthcare industry, taking millions and millions from them and abandoning any real chance at true healthcare for all Americans that doesn't involve the very same profitmongers who are who helped to finance her failing campaign. She’s proven she is will represent those who have paid her bills and not carry out the will of the people.
Now we hear her play so many 'cards' that we have gone from perceiving her as anywhere from egotistic to aggravating to pathetic to desperate, none of which are values we want of our president.
We've heard her play the race card against Obama. She's claimed her stint as First Lady and brief time as a junior senator makes her more qualified as president than Obama, somehow believing that being the wife of someone somehow endows her with the same experiences. Since when? I guarantee you that if I need to get my appendix out, the very LAST person I am going to seek to do the job is the wife of my surgeon!
I guarantee Hillary that no true professional woman wants to project her experience as being a parasite who has attached herself to a husband’s success and playing it off as her own. She never played any pivotal roles while Bill was president and they both know it!
And out of that she cried "sexism"? She must be kidding someone. She wants us to believe she has experience to be president that Obama doesn’t have because she was First Lady ~ a claim of such absurdity that it offends feminists everywhere, and when it backfires, SHE claims it’s sexist?
This is a woman with some truly twisted beliefs. She has had every equal opportunity to acquire the Democratic nomination for presidency, and at every turn, she has done everything possible to screw it up all by herself. When her husband and her aides have made inappropriate comments or behaved wrong during the campaign, it still falls on Hillary. If she can't control her staff and her husband during a campaign, then what business does she have claiming she's able to run a country? I guarantee her, it's a lot more difficult than what she's currently got on her plate and she clearly not able to manage that much!
And now she's claimed, not once, but twice, that she needs to stay in the race because Obama could be assassinated. That shows most clearly to me that that is exactly what she wants to see happen, because when she first made the comment in March of this year, she didn't have the tragedy of Ted Kennedy's brain tumor to give her an excuse for putting her foot in her mouth. But for her to make such a blatantly sick comment AGAIN? It’s clear she wishes desperately for it to happen, because she’s pissed away getting the nomination legitimately at every turn.
Every candidate runs the risk of assassination. And since it’s clear that she wants to stick in a race she has already lost and run her campaign on the idea that the candidate who bested her will be killed, so she can run in and take over…well, that is beyond all measure of decency. It’s worse than her lies about being under fire, and worse than the threats she made that would kill millions of innocents, it’s worsen than her being bought out by the very corporate interests she once fought against. Hillary Clinton has made it clear that since she’s obviously lost the race at this point, that she hopes for a bullet to get her back what she has lost.
Believe me, when someone as hard and fast a feminist as I am has absolutely no trust in Hillary to be president, she needs to take what little pride she has left and step down, and NOT take any steps to harm Obama's campaign in the process. As a matter of fact, she SHOULD be heavily endorsing Obama as any good Democrat would do rather than make petulant steps to split the party because she didn’t get her way. Otherwise, she's going to look like a spurned woman having a temper tantrum at the wrong time of the month, which is exactly what so many people already believe. She’ll give them all the fuel they need to attack future women running for president.
Hillary Clinton, you need to think of someone else but yourself right now. You’ve lost. All that is left is how much damage you can create on your way out, and if that’s all you really have to offer the Democrats after a campaign that you lost fair and square, then you never had any business ending up as president in the first place."
Allen L Roland http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2008/05/25.html
Freelance Online columnist and recognized therapist Allen L Roland is available for comments, interviews, speaking engagements and private consultations consultations ( allen@allenroland.com )
Allen L Roland is a practicing psychotherapist, author and lecturer who also shares a daily political and social commentary on his weblog and website allenroland.com He also guest hosts a monthly national radio show TRUTHTALK on www.conscioustalk.net
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