Until I Change My Mind Again

Thank god for blogs!  Thank to this post by Turkana, I don't have to write one of my own explaining why, after swinging my cautious support to Obama upon Edwards' withdrawal,  I will be voting for Hillary on April 22.   That said, I don't think either Obama or Hillary can beat McCain.  With so much at stake, this should have been John Edwards' year.  If thinking that makes me the most horrible racist misogynist in the world, then so be it. 

I think that Hillary is marginally less unelectable so that's something.  I prefer her health care plan.  I'm in love with the idea of a bond-funded WPA-style program to rebuild our infrastructure.  I like her energy plan although I wish she would talk about it more.  (I wish anyone would talk about energy and jobs more.)  I don't trust Obama.  He's whistled to the Right too many times for me to be comfortable with him.  I think he's naive to believe that he'll be able to negotiate with the jackals on the other side of the aisle.  If he wins (and if he's the nominee, I hope to hell he does) then he will spend the next four or eight years under seige from the same machine that attacked Bill Clinton and has only had time to get better at their job.  Hillary has been through that once.  I think she' s a stronger fighter than Obama.   Maybe he' s lying to us now about his belief in Unity Ponies in the Age of Post-Partisanship but if he isn't, then sending him to Washington feels too much like sending a lamb to the you-know-where. 

So I'll vote for Hillary but it's not like I'll be skipping to the polling place.   I wasn't going to be skipping to vote for Obama either.  That's the plight right now of us Roosevelt Dems, who don't believe the hype.   Eventually I'm hoping to see  both HRC and Obama on the same ticket - Clinton/Obama, Obama/Clinton - I don't care.  That's what my informal surveys tell me regular low-to-mid information voters want anyway.   I just want a Democrat - even one of these Goldwater Republicans - in the White House in January. 

Comments

[vwclown]

Sorry for the disappointment you're feeling as you get ready to cast your vote. I voted for Edwards even though he had stopped campaigning just before "super Tuesday" when I got to vote. Over the past weeks, I've had to come to grips with having had no real choice. It gets easier to ignore after you've voted. I was still proud that day; voting always makes me feel privileged. I figure 'they' can't take that feeling away from me; I will just keep fighting 'the beast' in other ways. Keep up the good work here and maybe next time...

[mick arran]

It's amazing, isn't it? The more you know about Obama, the better Hillary looks. And Hillary is a DLC monster. Like I've said many times, it's a Devil's Choice.

[Thomas Nephew]

Before voting next Tuesday, (re)consider three words:
* Iraq.
* $3,000,000,000,000.
* Accountability.

Not trying to be "morally vain" here -- I'm in no position to be. But as I've said before, I think those things get lost in the shuffle.