My thoughts exactly.
Electing Sweetie
Posted May 16, 2008 | 10:01 AM (EST)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erica-jong/electing-sweetie_b_102081.html
Despite his penchant for saying "sweetie" to shut women up, Barack
Obama does seem more likable than Hillary Clinton. But so what?
The press loved frat boy George W. Bush and hated nerdy Al Gore eight
years ago. And look what we got? Endless war, economic meltdown,
torture, a bigoted Supreme Court, the destruction of our Constitution
and Bill of Rights, a desecrated planet. Will Americans never learn
that who they think is a "nice guy" is no reason to elect a president?
Apparently not.
At this very moment, right wing swiftboaters are vetting Barack
Obama's life to see how they can smear him if he becomes the
candidate. Real estate deals, ***ual peccadilloes, pastors -- you name
it. They're on his trail. One good thing about Hillary Clinton is that
the vast right wing conspiracy has been at her for sixteen years and
nothing they came up with has stuck. Not Whitewater. Not witchcraft.
Not nothin'. All they got on her is her husband -- the ***-addict who
was a great president.
You'd think that would make her electable. After all, she is not Bill.
You'd think that would make her a better candidate. But shut my mouth,
Americans don't vote pragmatically. They vote emotionally. And the
devil you know is always inferior to the angel you don't know. Barack
is currently that angel. How long he'll keep his wings is anyone's
guess.
So here we go again. NARAL loves the new boy on the block -- even if
HRC was there at its founding. So does John Edwards. And Ted Kennedy.
The fact that Barack has little experience makes him the hot new
ingénue, whereas Hillary is old like your mother.
The truth is we know about her -- and we know very little about Obama.
That alone makes her detractors scream: Get Out! Off the stage with
you! Give us that hot new boy! Give us that sepia Brad Pitt! Old women
are so over!
OK sweetie, we'll step aside. Watch your own cauldron bubble. You're
in a heap of trouble -- and you don't even know it.
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