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In reply to the discussion: I am an older white woman, a retired teacher. [View all]Hekate
(90,683 posts)I worked hard for Senator Eugene McCarthy for president when I was a college kid still living in California. The death of RFK and then the Chicago Democratic Convention just ripped my guts out.
Nobody should ever try to tell me what journey I've taken or try to co-opt the things I remember. No one should dare to tell me what kind of a Democrat I've been or am. The fact that I admire this President is not a sign of cultish adoration but hard, hard experience of having lived through Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bush the Elder and Bush the Lesser, as well as the trashing of Jimmy Carter and the entirely unwarranted impeachment of Bill Clinton. I know who the bastards in this political system are, and Barack Obama is not one of them.
Solidarity! Solidarity or we all fail.
Edited to add, since it was so prominently brought up in those other OPs: Yes, I surely am white; my Irish ancestry shows all over my face and freckled hide.