I've heard about the Hillary supporters who are pro-choice but just can't bring themselves to vote for Obama. As a matter of fact I met one this morning. She had a Ned Lamont sticker on her bumper. Tessa yelled to her, "Hey, Lamonst-er" as the woman walked into the drugstore. She turned and said, "Yea, Ned Lamont". Then Tessa said, "Do you want an Obama bumper sticker"? The woman hesitated. I've seen that hesitation before. I knew immediately she was a Hillary supporter, but was angry at Obama.
With a little discussion she eventually took the Obama sticker. The discussion included a statement about how angry she was at Barack Obama, and how she just might write in Hillary's name on the ballot as a protest vote. To be honest I've heard this same animosity before. I'm not buying into it. I'm personally not angry at Hillary or Barrack for running very tough Primary campaigns. I've said some pretty awful things about people in the Democratic Party who I ended up campaigning for, gave money to, and eventually voted for them. Let me think, I didn't really like John Kerry, but my God, wasn't he 10 times better than George Bush?
I'm not telling people to get over it. That's a tough process. Believe me I know. I just want to make sure people know what a vote against Obama would do. At the risk of seeming condescending, I would like to tell the pro-Hillary, pro-choice, (anti-Obama) people a few things about our future under McCain.
John McCain will simply be too close to the Supreme Court for the country's best interests. The Supreme Court is already poised to replace liberal Supreme Court justices (who are hardly as liberal as I want them to be). This Supreme Court change will also be repeated with federal judge appointments.
John McCain wants to bomb something. He hasn't made up his mind yet what he wants to bomb, maybe Iran, maybe Russia, maybe China, maybe Venezuela, but he wants to bomb something. He really hasn't got over his POW status. He's got something to prove to those people who held him in captivity, and when he is in power he will prove show them, if it is the wrong country. Talk to a Holocaust survivor and see how long it took for them stop hating Germans. Some never stopped. I'm not holding this hatred against John McCain, I just don't think we should let a person like that become president.
John McCain is not old, he just has very old ideas. He is fighting battles that have been fought and won, and fought and lost, many times over. I'm pretty sure he's fighting battles in his head as well. This bomb-first and ask-questions-later mentality will truly be the ruin of our country's best and brightest.
So to my friends who are Hillary Clinton supporters, and are pro-choice, but haven't yet come around to Barack Obama, please take a long look at the alternative. No time for ambivalence. No time for anger. It is time to take the country back from the fanatics.
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