I wished I had voted for Hillary Clinton
I never thought I would say these words. But it has come to this.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama says “mental distress” should not qualify as a health exception for late term-abortions, a key distinction not embraced by many supporters of abortion rights.
It is the tactics of the right wing reactionary to present a false situation, a strawman argument, to portray a liberal value as a crime against humanity or American values. It is not a tactic a liberal politician uses.
It is the right wing that went after welfare with out of the ordinary examples of the tiny few people who, perfectly capable of taking care of themselves, lavished themselves with taxpayer money.
It is was politicians and pundits from the Republican party that argue for increased use of capital punishment by exploiting the suffering of victims of child rape.
It is conservatives who find the tiniest low probability possibility in our protections for pro-choice laws that protect mothers and the rights of women to argue for legislation that interferes with the medical expertise of doctors.
It is not liberals who do this. It is not our rockstar nominee who does this. It is a duplicitous, wolf in sheeps clothing. He may have said that “going forward, some of you may decide that my FISA position is a deal breaker, ” but no sir. The deal breaker is just you. Your lying, reactionary, double-speaking, fork-tounge demagoguery-wielding self.
So far he has reversed himself and/or capitulated to the right on:
FISA
NAFTA
Pro-choice values
2nd Amendment interpretation*
Faith-based initiatives
Public Campaign Financing
Withdrawing troops from Iraq
How was it that Hillary supporters saw through all this when I could not? Was it really misogyny?
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