you go girls.
many of hillary's supporters have made the jump to obama with little drama. meanwhile, her hardcore supporters are being coddled by the media and pandered to by mccain.
i listened to a woman on npr who says since hillary is not going to be president, she's almost certain (she wasn't 100%) she's voting for john mccain. it's fascinating really, since issues-wise, obama is more like hillary than mccain.
but there is something burning deep in these women. they feel like hillary, a mere woman, was bypassed for a male startup. they feel personally slighted. they didn't bother to learn anything about obama and they only see the world through woman glasses, just as others see through only the lens of race, which seems contrary to feminism's purpose.
never for a minute did i think that hillary couldn't be president but i guess there are a lot of women out there who feel like there is a plot against them. more, i think there are just a bunch of immature pundits who have no other way of expressing themselves but to resort to what they know, immature sexist remarks.
if hillary had come up through the ranks on her own merits, and had been less divisive, i may have voted for her.
anyway, here are the arguments this woman makes, very much representative of the angry women as a whole, that i would argue mask the truth (they're still not saying what they really think): she said that people who make $200K plus, should not be taxed.
she said obama is a "blank slate." she didn't want someone with little experience running the white house.
she said she doesn't trust obama and that his millions of supporters have simply transferred their hopes onto him. it's a psychological thing, she said.
when questioned about women's right to choose, she simply said mccain won't be able to overturn that.
it seems these hardcore hillary supporters really see themselves as victims, victims of misogyny, just victims. and since they didn't get their way, this is how they're acting out.
good luck with that!
