Hillary Clinton's 2008 slaps still sting President Obama

[LWolf]

20. I am not now, and never have been,

a fan of HRC. She and Obama were tied for last place on my list of primary contenders in the fall of '07. I don't want to see her on my ballot in '16.

I thought the primary wars here were ridiculously humiliating for the party. I did spend some time pointing out that Obama was no better than HRC, but was stampeded by those who thought he was the second coming. I understood. We were finally seeing the ass end of GWB, and ANYONE would have been better. Obama didn't have the DLC strings attached, regardless of the FACT that his policies were as neoliberal as Clinton's.

The nomination was pretty well wrapped up when my primary finally got here in late May of '08. There was really no point. Obama had my state wrapped up, so I cast a protest vote for HRC, even though I didn't really want her as the nominee, either. I had 2 points which put her ahead of Obama by that time:

1. She's willing to oppose Republicans.
2. She campaigned AGAINST the devastating education reform movement ushered into the national scene by GWB, Miller, and TK, while Obama told us in an interview on FOX news that Republicans got education better than Democrats did.

She was certainly right about the "lets get unified" meme. We needed someone to undo the damage 8 years of Republican policy had accomplished, not make friends with them.