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Hillary Clinton
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"Why I have switched..."
by jhannon
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/11/1483752/-Why-I-Have-Switched-from-Bernie-to-Hillary?detail=email
Finally, I am sick of the Hillary-bashing. I can't think of another politician in my conscious lifetime who has caught more shit than she, from people making the White House travel office a cause celebre to accusing her of killing her friend, Vince Foster, to Whitewater, to being (gasp!) a lesbian, or shrew, or thick-legged (gasp, again) to Benghazi, to ...fill in the blank. And it is misogynistic. I know people who consider her laughably dishonest and I ask them, what exactly, has she lied about? Oh, they say, everyone knows--because they have been exposed to relentless bashing of her that has not been refuted strongly enough by people on the left.
I am a socialist feminist. I believe there is no true socialism without feminism and no true feminism without socialism. I have worked in various ways to further both causes. As a citizen of the country I have a more particular responsibility to vote for the person I think is best qualified at this particular moment for what can well be considered the most important position in the world. I have decided that is Hillary Clinton.
I am a socialist feminist. I believe there is no true socialism without feminism and no true feminism without socialism. I have worked in various ways to further both causes. As a citizen of the country I have a more particular responsibility to vote for the person I think is best qualified at this particular moment for what can well be considered the most important position in the world. I have decided that is Hillary Clinton.
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handmade34
Feb 2016
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Rose Siding
(32,629 posts)1. That was a really good read.
The writer covered nearly every aspect of the argument for Hillary. *REALISTICALLY*
So honest!
sheshe2
(97,671 posts)2. K&R
Thanks handmade.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)3. K & R
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)4. Excellent!
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)5. knr!
OilemFirchen
(7,288 posts)6. Indeed.
It's likely that many, or most young voters have an impression of Clinton informed principally by the right-wing caricature of her, now happily and repeatedly regurgitated by the "left".