Obama vs McCain
Jun. 5th, 2008 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daddytoddOK, so this is in response to several posts in LJ tonight by Bears & other gay men talking about voting for McCain because Clinton didn't win the nomination.
I was never a Hillary Clinton fan; I was for Richardson, then briefly for Edwards before landing on Obama. But if Hillary had run a better campaign and actually captured the nomination, I'd be writing out a check for her campaign right now. Voting for McCain because your gal didn't win the nomination is simply beyond my capacity to understand. I'm willing to hear reasoned arguments, but I reserve the right to try and pick apart their logic.
I'm not saying there aren't reasons to pick McCain over Obama; I just haven't heard one yet that seems like it would be persuasive to a Gay man.
But even if we take out the LGBT part, the whole and single reason I never warmed to Hillary was that she voted for the Iraq War, and NEVER satisfactorily explained/apologized/rationalized that vote. She just started campaigning as if she'd been anti-war since Day One, when she was a zealous advocate of the war for at least a year before, and a couple years into it.
I think the Iraq War is one of the single greatest catastrophes my country has ever blundered into. Anyone who supported it needs to candidly explain WHY, and convince me he/she won't make that same mistake with Iran. As far as I know, Hillary never even attempted to make that case to voters.
But, ya know, I'd STILL vote for her over McCain, simply because I want a DEMOCRAT to pick the next couple of Supreme Court Justices. We're dangerously close to having every civil rights advance of the last 50 years swept away by the Supremes; we need to make sure Equal Rights are extended, not eroded.
((Edited to make it less inflammatory. Basically I wimped out on a comment I made, so I took out a couple paragraphs.))
I was never a Hillary Clinton fan; I was for Richardson, then briefly for Edwards before landing on Obama. But if Hillary had run a better campaign and actually captured the nomination, I'd be writing out a check for her campaign right now. Voting for McCain because your gal didn't win the nomination is simply beyond my capacity to understand. I'm willing to hear reasoned arguments, but I reserve the right to try and pick apart their logic.
I'm not saying there aren't reasons to pick McCain over Obama; I just haven't heard one yet that seems like it would be persuasive to a Gay man.
But even if we take out the LGBT part, the whole and single reason I never warmed to Hillary was that she voted for the Iraq War, and NEVER satisfactorily explained/apologized/rationalized that vote. She just started campaigning as if she'd been anti-war since Day One, when she was a zealous advocate of the war for at least a year before, and a couple years into it.
I think the Iraq War is one of the single greatest catastrophes my country has ever blundered into. Anyone who supported it needs to candidly explain WHY, and convince me he/she won't make that same mistake with Iran. As far as I know, Hillary never even attempted to make that case to voters.
But, ya know, I'd STILL vote for her over McCain, simply because I want a DEMOCRAT to pick the next couple of Supreme Court Justices. We're dangerously close to having every civil rights advance of the last 50 years swept away by the Supremes; we need to make sure Equal Rights are extended, not eroded.
((Edited to make it less inflammatory. Basically I wimped out on a comment I made, so I took out a couple paragraphs.))
