Collected Thoughts

I haven't written much about the election or the issues surrounding it but I feel up to it right now.

I'm not surprised Clinton is not the Presidential candidate. Not one bit. I'm not suprised at the way she was treated by the media and I'm not surprised at the smear campaigns against her.

I never thought that Clinton was a viable candidate for President.  I'm not saying that I think she would have been a bad President, because I don't. But there are too many people in this country who hate the Clintons and hate her especially. I personally know people who think she is evil incarnate.  They believe all kinds of wild stories about her,   They hate her because she's Bill Clinton's wife, they hate her because of who she is.  They hate her because they think she ran the White house and not Clinton, they hate her because they think she's a theif and a liar, and of course they hate her because she's an educated woman.

I'm not talking about random nutjob people when I say I know people. I'm talking about my relatives. I'm refering to pretty much every Souther Baptist I know. There is no way, NO WAY, that the Souther BAptrist Convention would not start an all out war if  Clinton won the nomination. They think she'd want all girls to turn into lesibans (like her), and force every woman to have an abortion, and  make laws to take away all rights of men, and on and on and on.

It's not rational at all but ti's there. There is no way the SBC is going to sit back and just watch a woman become president (they really don't want women to teach too many boys) but to have to watch THAT Woman? Not without the worst most disgusting most horrendous smear campaign the United States has ever seen.

I've already read news articles regarding Evangelicals that say they are caught between voting for a liberal candidate (meaing McCain) and a really liberal candidate. So they'll hold their nose and vote for McCain. I've heard Republicans who have said they don't want to vote for McCain, and they'd be willing to vote for Obama, but there's no way in hell they could make themselves vote for Clinton.  Maybe I'm being to cynical and too harsh but I remember what it was like when Clinton was President, I know how many times I had to walk away from relatives because of the horrible things they were saying.

It sucks It makes me mad that this is how it is but that's how it is.

I looked on Bill Clinton's presidency as a wonderful time, see him as a good leader. But too many people think of those yeas as hellish torment they had to endure.

I keep thinking I should be more outraged, but honest to God, I never thought Clinton would get as far as she did. Never. So she defied my expectations. And also I'd pretty much resigned myself to voting party lines rather than voting for the candidate of my choice (that would be Edwards).

I want a woman to be president, I know that there will be other women who run for President and I'm confident that in my life time I'll see a female president.  (Unless I die suddenly).