Excited About Hillary

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Clarissa

June 17, 2016

I’m also tired of hearing how nobody is excited about Hillary’s candidacy. Millions of people are extremely excited. I just spoke to two colleagues, female academics in their sixties, who said they were crying tears of joy when Hillary ran the Presumptive Nominee video.

“This is what we worked for our entire lives,” one said.

“I’m so happy I got to see this in my lifetime,” said another.

I was also in tears when I saw that video, and I resent all those (obviously male, what a surprise) smartasses who keep moaning that nobody is excited because anybody who is not them is, of course, a total nobody.

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8 responses to “Excited About Hillary”

adrianaurelien

June 17, 2016

Right, I’m excited! I’ve been looking forward to her eventual presidency for eight years, don’t try to ruin this moment for me, Hillary haters. Just because none of your friends are excited for Hillary doesn’t mean nobody else is. Maybe talk to someone over the age of 30 sometime (but who cares what “Midwestern moms” and “low information voters” think.)

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Z

June 17, 2016

I was for Shirley Chisholm and excited about Geraldine Ferraro.

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Mike

June 20, 2016

It is a sign that feminism’s goals have been met at least somewhat that a woman candidate just as tainted and flawed as the average male candidate can ascend to the nomination of a major US political party.

That’s actually more a sign of progress than if a woman who was truly exceptional had made it so far.

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Shakti

June 20, 2016

Who this exceptional presidential candidate is that you are comparing this “tainted and flawed” female candidate to?

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1. Mike
  
  June 20, 2016
  
  Shakti, I suspect such a candidate — male or female — who actually wants to be president does not exist. Elizabeth Warren is close, but I doubt she actually wants to be president.
  
  One of the main qualifications for being president, though, is that you don’t want to be president. We need conscripted presidents, perhaps.
  
  If I vote, I’m voting for Jill Stein. In this state it probably won’t matter anyway no matter who I vote for.
  
  Trump will damage the country by being Trump, Clinton will do so by continuing and likely expanding the US’s overseas adventures and thus fecklessly shoveling more money into the military-industrial maw.
  
  There are no winners here, only less worse-off losers.
  
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  1. Clarissa
    
    June 20, 2016
    
    Hillary is exceptional. But she only achieved what she did because she slept with the right fellow.
    
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    1. Shakti
      
      June 20, 2016
      
      I can neither parse your sincerity nor your sarcasm.
      
      This election is not about self-made people, not in the mythical sense anyways.
      
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      1. Clarissa
        
        June 20, 2016
        
        I’m completely sincere when I say Hillary is exceptional. She isn’t in the least rigid, and that’s an incredible quality at her age. She is a hard worker and she never stops growing. Voters saw that and she won the nomination from Bernie whose rigidity was his downfall.
        
        It is sad, however, that Hillary had to get into politics through the bedroom.
        
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