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handmade34

(22,756 posts)
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 02:35 PM Feb 2016

posted in Hillary group...

"Why I have switched..."
by jhannon

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/11/1483752/-Why-I-Have-Switched-from-Bernie-to-Hillary?detail=email


Finally, I am sick of the Hillary-bashing. I can't think of another politician in my conscious lifetime who has caught more shit than she, from people making the White House travel office a cause celebre to accusing her of killing her friend, Vince Foster, to Whitewater, to being (gasp!) a lesbian, or shrew, or thick-legged (gasp, again) to Benghazi, to ...fill in the blank. And it is misogynistic. I know people who consider her laughably dishonest and I ask them, what exactly, has she lied about? Oh, they say, everyone knows--because they have been exposed to relentless bashing of her that has not been refuted strongly enough by people on the left.
I am a socialist feminist. I believe there is no true socialism without feminism and no true feminism without socialism. I have worked in various ways to further both causes. As a citizen of the country I have a more particular responsibility to vote for the person I think is best qualified at this particular moment for what can well be considered the most important position in the world. I have decided that is Hillary Clinton.



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posted in Hillary group... (Original Post) handmade34 Feb 2016 OP
That was a really good read. Rose Siding Feb 2016 #1
K&R sheshe2 Feb 2016 #2
K & R Iliyah Feb 2016 #3
Excellent! NurseJackie Feb 2016 #4
knr! Lucinda Feb 2016 #5
Indeed. OilemFirchen Feb 2016 #6

Rose Siding

(32,623 posts)
1. That was a really good read.
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 02:50 PM
Feb 2016

The writer covered nearly every aspect of the argument for Hillary. *REALISTICALLY*

So honest!

OilemFirchen

(7,143 posts)
6. Indeed.
Fri Feb 12, 2016, 03:40 PM
Feb 2016

It's likely that many, or most young voters have an impression of Clinton informed principally by the right-wing caricature of her, now happily and repeatedly regurgitated by the "left".

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