We basically missed the whole primary season during our extended hospital stay, which is probably a good thing; the reports that leaked through were frustrating enough. In the end, I didn’t ever have to decide whether I was for Clinton or Obama, a choice I’m still not sure about.<\/p>\n
Recent events leave me, in a word, stunned. McCain’s choice for vice-president is so astoundingly ill-considered, cynical and ridiculous that I am still boggling, over a week later. Do he and the Republican party truly have such a low opinion of Clinton supporters that they think she was being supported simply because she was a woman? That her actual positions on issues, her experience and her abilities meant nothing? That women are interchangeable and we would blindly vote for whichever candidate has a vagina?<\/p>\n
Given McCain’s age and his health problems, it would have behooved him to make a more considered choice for VP. Say, someone with actual experience and qualifications rather than the pork-queen from Wasilla with her shiny new passport. Instead, he’s demonstrated his own desperation to become president without regard for future of the American people.<\/p>\n
I’m just hoping that the backlash against Dubya and his parade of idiots didn’t peak too soon, back in 2006 and we have a clear demonstration at the polls that we see through McCain’s ploy and won’t be fooled by his attempt to pander to the extreme right and fake out women at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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