Reply #38: Someday, Maybe You'll Get It [View All]

Someday maybe it will sink into you and the other white men in the party that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to promote the first ever viable African-descended candidate by depicting the first ever viable female candidate as a racist and/or a race-baiter, while at the same time heaping sexist attack upon sexist attack at that candidate and simultaneously pushing the meme that good girls vote for Obama.

There was never any great amount of difference between the candidates, in their voting records and their stances on the issues. What it came down to was, which historic candidacy was going to get the nod. And the white men chose to go with the guy, but in order to make it happen, they had to rip the shit out of the gal.

Right now it appears he will get the nomination; if he should do so and win the presidency, I'd like to be able to take some joy in the idea of our first black president. Right now I just can't imagine where that will come from, knowing what was done to peel the female vote away from his opponent. You want me to vote for Obama? Give me a fucking reason and don't even think about starting with the "Roe v Wade" shit. That pig ain't flying.

Let me make it perfectly clear: I don't hate Obama. My scorn is for the white men in the Democratic party who gave the nod to this strategy, and who think they're going to have great jobs as advisers in an Obama administration.