Enjoy and laugh too : I'm voting for Hillary for the same reason I

BenDavid

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Mon Jan-21-08 12:39 AM
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Enjoy and laugh too : I'm voting for Hillary for the same reason I

lost my virginity -holding onto it until I found the perfect guy was becoming such an elevated ideal that I was never going to find a guy perfect enough to deserve it, my purity, my lotus flower, my blooming womanhood. I was going to walk around forever, deeming every man I met not worthy, until I finally ruined myself of finding love anywhere, my expectations unrealistic. So I slept with the guy I was dating at the time. I got it over with. And then I moved on to the rest of my life.

This country needs to just go ahead and elect a woman already. It's time. We all know it's time, are itching to just GET IT OVER WITH, get a woman in office and put an end to the questions of whether or not her PMS is going to interfere with her foreign policy. Hey, I'm a woman, and I'm an emotional wreck, but I'm not the kind of woman who is going to run for public office. The kind of woman who runs for public office has big, brass balls of her own that she wears on a pearl strand around her neck.

I am going to vote for Hillary because this country needs practice accepting a female leader, and Hillary can handle being the first. She may be one of the best candidate I can think of to be Leader of the Free World, and she's good enough to pave the path for better candidates of the female variety in the future. Allowing women to take a viable swing at our nation's highest office will bring twice as many candidates to the table in future elections.

Our entire judicial system is set on precedent. Our Constitution, on which we base all of our laws, is one big precedent. It's the way we structure our beliefs in this country - we believe that if we've seen it happen once, it can happen again. But until we've seen it happen, we doubt. I've got an opportunity to vote to make it happen. Listen, if Hillary were a right-wing Republican, I wouldn't vote for her just because she's a woman. She's not. I do think she's a moderate Democrat. I'm way more liberal than Hillary, but she's got good positions on healthcare and education, and she's learned from her mistakes on Iraq. She's a good, Democrat woman, up against good, Democrat men. Apples to apples, I'm taking the pear.

This election is an important one, but it's not the only one. We haven't had a female candidate in a viable position to win in my voting history. I'm shocked we've gone this long, and I think it's because running a presidential campaign takes literally millions of dollars. As long as no woman has won the presidency, women will have a VERY hard time raising the money required to run a viable campaign. Campaign reform doesn't even seem to help - then the money just gets funneled to the parties, who dole it out using focus groups and polls and other data to make their decisions, and the American people sit around wondering if a woman can do it, and we wouldn't even be having that particularly discussion if we had a viable, competent female give it a shot. No, I don't think Hillary's perfect. I do think she's too smooth, a Clinton, a lawyer. She is saying she's going to improve healthcare, and she gave it a good try before. I believe this is an issue close to her heart. It's the issue that's closest to my heart right now. I like some of the other Dems, but if all things are equal and it's woman versus man, I'm going to vote to break that barrier. You can vote the way you want. It's a free country.

And I'd like it to be a free country led by someone with big brass ovaries. For once.

Hope you read it and smiled and maybe even laughed.....blogher

Ben David