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berniepdx420

(1,784 posts)
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 04:07 AM Feb 2016

"Waiting for the Right Woman President"

By natecra

In response to the claim that it’s mysogeny and girls chasing boys that’s leading people to choose Bernie over Hillary.

The choice of president is a four year commitment to be lead by someone. Their ties to influencers, the favors they owe, the contributions they’ve accepted all play a major role in the person with executive power in the US.

Hillary Clinton is not the right choice for our first woman president. She has deep ties to the interests of the over-powered wealthy. She has only recently chosen to call herself progressive as a reaction to the strong and growing base of people who support Bernie Sanders. She wants their votes and if she can’t have them, she’ll buy superdelegates so the progressives who don’t like her, don’t matter


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/18/1487522/-Waiting-for-the-Right-Woman-President
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"Waiting for the Right Woman President" (Original Post) berniepdx420 Feb 2016 OP
K&R nt Live and Learn Feb 2016 #1
K&R CharlotteVale Feb 2016 #2
Yeah. I've heard that so often I wonder who has the copyright. aquart Feb 2016 #3
They're (Clintons, DWS) trying to purge everyone before they lose. Fuddnik Feb 2016 #5
What a hawk. tecelote Feb 2016 #6
I'm waiting for Warren to run Helen Borg Feb 2016 #7
It's not that she is imperfect. Android3.14 Feb 2016 #8
k/r AtomicKitten Feb 2016 #4

aquart

(69,014 posts)
3. Yeah. I've heard that so often I wonder who has the copyright.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 04:32 AM
Feb 2016

It is so damn tragic when another woman negates a lifetime of real effort and accomplishment because it just isn't perfect.

Once again, a woman has to do twice as much to get half as far.

And it's a lie anyway. A butt-brained justification for ugly prejudice.

I know my candidate isn't perfect. How could she be? But what courage! What perseverence! What heart! What experience! What grace! What forgiveness!

Sanders people are fantasizing a grand purge of the impure once they win. Hillary wouldn't do that. Neither would I.

tecelote

(5,122 posts)
6. What a hawk.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 05:42 AM
Feb 2016

That's where she loses me.

"Sanders people are fantasizing a grand purge of the impure once they win. Hillary wouldn't do that. Neither would I."

But, you're ok with regime change and continued war? As SOS, she is anything but a peacemaker.

Empathy, morality and ethics should be among the things you list but they are absent.

 

Android3.14

(5,402 posts)
8. It's not that she is imperfect.
Fri Feb 19, 2016, 07:06 AM
Feb 2016

It's that she is compromised, untrustworthy, weak on abortion rights, a warhawk and a lousy leader.

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