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I've already decided that if it's possible, I'm voting for Hillary.
I'm not sure she's my favorite candidate. I do think voting for a person of color is also important. Wanting to put a qualified woman in office doesn't negate wanting to support men or women of color. I don't think Barack is ready. I didn't think Edwards was ready in the last cycle, and I don't think Barack is ready in this cycle. I think Barack will someday be president, just not yet. I like what Hillary's Web site says about healthcare, childcare, education and the environment. I agree with a lot of her positions, but she's moderate, and I agree with a lot of moderate Democrats.
I think she's pretty plastic, a professional politician and not particularly charismatic. I liked her better when she had bad hair and was a little bit of a loose cannon. Yes, the woman is greedy for power. Usually you have to be a little power-hungry to run for our country's highest office. Are we more sensitive to her desire for success because she's a Clinton or because she's a woman? Hillary may want to be in office, but she's not dumb. She knows the country is very sensitive to issues of power at this moment. I do believe she intends to use her power for more good than evil. I really do.
I'm voting for Hillary for the same reason I lost my virginity - holding onto it until I found the perfect guy was becoming such an elevated ideal that I was never going to find a guy perfect enough to deserve it, my purity, my lotus flower, my blooming womanhood. I was going to walk around forever, deeming every man I met not worthy, until I finally ruined myself of finding love anywhere, my expectations unrealistic. So I slept with the guy I was dating at the time. I got it over with. And then I moved on to the rest of my life.
This country needs to just go ahead and elect a woman already. It's time. We all know it's time, are itching to just GET IT OVER WITH, get a woman in office and put an end to the questions of whether or not her PMS is going to interfere with her foreign policy. Hey, I'm a woman, and I'm an emotional wreck, but I'm not the kind of woman who is going to run for public office. The kind of woman who runs for public office has big, brass balls of her own that she wears on a pearl strand around her neck. The kind of woman who runs for office stands next to her husband while he's talking about whether or not he had his dick sucked by an intern and then the next year runs for Senate. Folks, Hillary isn't going to break into tears over much. She's a female politician, and she's tough. Give her the job. Let's get this over with.
I am going to vote for Hillary because this country needs practice accepting a female leader, and Hillary can handle being the first. She may not be the best candidate I can think of to be Leader of the Free World, but she's good enough to pave the path for better candidates of the female variety in the future. Allowing women to take a viable swing at our nation's highest office will bring twice as many candidates to the table in future elections.
Our entire judicial system is set on precedent. Our Constitution, on which we base all of our laws, is one big precedent. It's the way we structure our beliefs in this country - we believe that if we've seen it happen once, it can happen again. But until we've seen it happen, we doubt. I've got an opportunity to vote to make it happen. Listen, if Hillary were a right-wing Republican, I wouldn't vote for her just because she's a woman. She's not. I do think she's a moderate Democrat. I'm way more liberal than Hillary, but she's got good positions on healthcare and education, and she's learned from her mistakes on Iraq. She's a good, Democrat woman, up against good, Democrat men. Apples to apples, I'm taking the pear.
This election is an important one, but it's not the only one. We haven't had a female candidate in a viable position to win
