Reply #12: Stuff like this is why the dem nominee gets my vote unequivically.... [View All]

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I don't care what anyone on this board or anywhere else says. Goddamnit the president sets the tone and the climate for so many things in this country. No matter how much I may have disagreed with Clinton or how much we may hate corporatism or militarization, I'm sorry that doesn't trump the fact that the bottom line was that for most of the 90's with a democrat in power, there was a much friendlier climate both for gays, minorities and women. Were things equal or as good as they SHOULD have been? No. I'm not naive enough to say that with a straight face. Even then we had light years to go and miles before we could sleep. But compared to now where anti woman and anti gay and anti minority thought is de rigeur again , the 90's were practically the second age of enlightenment.

Which is why whatever my thoughts are on the eventual nominees stance on Iraq, or their perceived temper or their demeanor or their inexperience or their previous votes for republicans. No matter how much any of that stuff may matter to me, it doesn't trump the way that bush has turned the clock back on the most progessive aspects of this country: how we treat women, how we treat gays, and how we treat minorities. I'm not willing for one single solitary split second going to put anything above that. And no matter what you say, any single one of our nominees INCLUDING Leiberman will be better than what we have now.

Sorry for this rant but this stuff just sickens me and I blame Bush 110%.