Why Did I Bother Defending Senator Clinton?

Mike03

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Thu Mar-27-08 05:25 PM
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Why Did I Bother Defending Senator Clinton?

The events of this past week have really made me feel foolish for having attempted to defend Hillary Clinton against the charges that she has overstepped the boundaries of "assertive" and crossed into the realm of the gutter.

Even though I prefer Obama (now Vastly prefer Obama), I have always respected Clinton and have said repeatedly that should she be the nominee I would not only support her but delight in having her as my president.

But this week was a very bad week for her. Perhaps her worst mistake was to rely upon the advisers she has chosen; in other words, maybe she is to tired that she is taking terrible advice. Be that as it may, I can't justify what happened this week on any level of reality.

First we have one of her campaign advisers refer to Richardson as a "Judas" even though he struggled with his decision, phoned Clinton beforehand to explain, made his choice, and defended it eloquently.

That was disgusting. It was beyond disgusting. Richardson is a very decent and thoughtful person who obviously tormented himself over this decision. Anyway, enough said about that.

Then Clinton pulled an embarrassing O'Reilly by claiming she had been in the middle of combat and so forth in former Yugoslavia, when footage from that event clearly shows that it was a relatively serene and friendly reception.

Then she made matters ten times worse by blaming that lie on sleep deprivation.

Have you ever been sleep deprived? Even severely sleep deprived? I would guess that 90% of everyone here has, at one time or another (probably fairly recently) met the criteria for severely sleep deprived. Did you ever "mis-speak" about something like being in a war zone when you weren't?

And for her encore, even worse, she tried to toss the hot potato back to Obama by resurrecting the Reverend Wright business after saying that she would not stoop so low as to discuss it.

Enough is enough. I can no longer, in good conscience, before my friends here at DU, defend her on any level--other than that I continue to be appalled at the sexism some of her opponents in the media display. Beyond that, I wash my hands and hope for the best.

No longer will you hear me defend Clinton. I'm simply an Obama supporter. I don't wish Clinton any ill will at all, but I hope she gracefully backs out of this mess she has created without damaging her important reputation any further. She and Bill can and hopefully will continue to serve the American people in some capacity other than presidential candidate.

They have much to offer. But at this point, they are doing much harm, IMHO, to not only Obama but themselves and most importantly any prayer we might have of party unity.

That's just my two cents, after months and months of intense frustration that have finally boiled over. At least I can say it feels good to have made a decisive choice in one direction.