Hillary Clinton Is More Than a President - "I love Hillary" [View all]

[OKNancy]

http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a40811/hillary-clinton-is-more-than-a-president/

I so agree... When anyone here or in real life bashes Hillary, I will say or write "I love Hillary"

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When people told me they hated Hillary Clinton or (far worse) that they were "not fans," I wish I had said in no uncertain terms: "I love Hillary Clinton. I am in awe of her. I am set free by her. She will be the finest world leader our galaxy has ever seen."

I wish, in those exchanges, I had not asked gentle, tolerant questions about a hater's ridiculous allergy to her, or to her fictional misdeeds and imagined character flaws. More deeply still, I wish I had not reasoned with anyone, or patiently countered their ludicrous emotionalism and psychologically disturbed theories. I wish I had said, flatly, "I love her." As if I had been asked about my mother or daughter. No defensiveness or polemics; not dignifying the crazy allegations with so much as a Snopes link.

Maybe "I love her" seemed too womany, too sentimental, too un-pragmatic. Not coalition-building, kind of culty. But people say with impunity they love Obama, the state of Israel, their churches, Kurt Cobain. In the end, I wish I'd said it because it's true.

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