Fuck her and the coat-tails she road in on. I have never been a fan of Hillary, and was displeased with her entering and becoming the presumptive nominee in this race. But I always believed if it came down to it, I would not have a problem voting for her against any of the other candidates in the general election
That was before I spent a month watching her campaign ratfuck Obama. Off the top of my head, various racial & personal attacks and lies by the Clintons or their representatives:
- bill clinton says it's a "fairly tale" obama opposed the war
- campaign misrepresents an obama statement from '04 and says by voting to fund the war obama somehow contradicted his anti-war stance
- campaign misrepresents illinois "present" votes on abortion bills, co-ordinated w/ planned parenthood
- campaign says obama has changed position on health-care. he hasn't
- Bill Shaheen pushes the drug issue and suggests obama may have sold drugs as well
- BET president makes drug reference "doing something in the neighborhood"
- "shuck & jive"
- Bob Kerrey repeatedly referring to Obama's muslim heritage, his middle name 'Hussein', and the idea he might be a Muslim Manchurian candidate
- "Barack Hussein Obama" robocalls in Nevada
- "Obama campaigned in Florida" (by running a national TV ad)
- repeated misrepresentations of Obama's reagan comments
Hillary's entire campaign has become a lying racist swiftboat: "Look, this guy is almost as bad as I am, but my mediocrity is backed by more experience. And he's black"
No thanks. Beyond all these specific sins, watching an ex-President use his bully pulpit to go around sliming a member of his own party in a desperate effort to ensure his wife's election to the office he is no longer constitutionally allowed to hold is enough for me to vow never, never to vote for this woman. Not. Fucking. Ever
I’ve really grown to detest her for those exact same reasons; I’d tack on that crying episode too, though. I think it was Bill Maher who pointed out that after a decade and a half of public coldness, she cries the day before her ambition hits a brick wall. I find it a little hard to believe.