It’s time for Democratic women to call a truce. And I’m not the only who thinks so.
It’s hard for our feelings not to be running high about whether Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton is the better candidate to beat John McCain in November. The discussion here at MOMocrats has certainly been no exception.
At least we haven’t called each other “dumb” or “fickle” like some other women in the press have.
Two friends of mine have summed it up quite nicely in their article today, Come Together? Yes, We Can:
As, respectively, a woman in her 20s who voted for Barack Obama and a woman pushing 40 who, yes, voted for Hillary Rodham Clinton, we still play nicely together. And we’re sick of the way our presidential candidates’ female supporters are being pitted against one another in an electoral mud-wrestling match. When primary season is over, Democrats will need to rally behind the nominee. And it’ll be far easier to put our heads together then if we spend less time cracking skulls now.
It’s easy to let our emotions get the better of us. I’m still getting over the fact that John Edwards isn’t on the ballot anymore. But I had to choose one candidate to support. And pretty soon, we’re all going to have to find a way to get along over whoever gets the Democratic nod if we want to keep John McCain out of the White House.
I’m assuming (hoping? praying?) that most Obama supporters would prefer to see Hillary making decisions about Iraq, not McCain. And, I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Hillary backers would rather see Barack trying to get our economy going in the right direction instead of presumptive GOP nominee who has said himself he’s not all that good on the whole economy/crunching numbers thing.
Somehow, we Democrats often find a way of shooting ourselves in the political foot — as one dad on the playground said this week, let’s not snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
That’s just what many Republicans are expecting. Let’s not give it to them.
Cross-posted at MOMocrats.
March 9th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
I’m hoping that come election time the supporters of Obama would vote for Hilary and vice versa.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:11 am
I will vote for whichever candidate the DNC chooses to nominate.
I am flabbergasted my Hillary’s endorsement of McCain
“I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. Sen. John McCain has a lifetime of experience that he’d bring to the White House. And Sen. Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.”
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/03/hillary-clinton.html
Who’s side is she on?
March 10th, 2008 at 10:27 am
I wish they could be on the same ticket, but Hillary doesn’t like to play nice. She’s honored to be on stage with him, then she’s ashamed of him…she doesn’t think he could be CIC, but then she wants him to be Vice, even though she’s not even winning.
I don’t know what to think of her right now. For someone who doesn’t want to be viewed as a woman candidate she sure is moody.
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March 11th, 2008 at 9:59 am
I voted for Hillary in the primary here, but I would be just as happy to have Obama as the nominee. That is if they don’t kill each other and their chances in the meantime.
I also wonder how many people are really as firmly in one camp or the other as the media portrays.
March 13th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
“I’m hoping that come election time the supporters of Obama would vote for Hilary and vice versa.”
Not me, Alex. If HRC is able to finagle the nomination, I won’t vote for her… nor will many veterans that I know.
She is just a little too willing to show how “strong” she is at the expense of others lives.