Reply #18: Let me tell you about how I came to my decision...

[Writer]

it's really far more complicated than my nuclear post from earlier.

Believe it or not, I've read both of their platforms, and I honestly don't see much of a difference between them. For this reason, I have been primarily undecided for virtually the entire primary until now.

The IWR: I'm sorry, but Barack Obama is not an anti-war candidate. I think some people associate him with that stance because he's not Hillary Clinton. Obama wasn't in the Senate in October, 2002, and we will never know how he would have voted on that issue. Even if we assume that he would have been a Paul Wellstone-like figure and voted against the IWR, his votes for funding during his years in the senate do still indicate someone who would have followed the centrist approach to this issue. I think Obama would have voted for the IWR if he were in the senate that year.

I have had reservations about Obama's petty behavior in the past, although he was gracious to Clinton in the last debate.

The last, rather substantive debate was a help, although at the end of the day, I care more about whether either of these candidates would be more effective than the other to enact the change they claim to enact. And this is another moment when I started leaning to Clinton. I think Hillary Clinton has worked with Congressman for her entire tenure as first lady and as senator. I think she will be more familiar with working congress (including Republicans) in order to make this "change" happen.

And then, my emotional button was pressed today because of some of the rude reaction to her crying, hence my nuclear thread. As a woman, I have dealt with a myriad of sexism/sexual harassment in the workplace. It is that STRUGGLE that I'm responding to - that strive I have as an intelligent young woman to be taken seriously for my ability to think ASIDE from my femininity.

And that is why I came to my decision. I don't know if this helps, but I wish you the best of luck in coming to a decision.

~Writer~