So I have been asked to do some blogging at the Hillary1000 website. I think my comments just became so prolific they decided to let me have my own space.
If you haven’t checked out the H1K yet, you totally should. Redstar/ Hillary1000, Pocochina, and Donna Darko are some of my favorite writers. I feel a wee bit like a rockstar at the mo.
And btw trolls, WordPress has much better anti-troll protection, so don’t waste your time.
I’m tired of fighting Sweeties and stalker trolls, so I am making two definitive lists of 1) Why I am Pro Hillary an 2) Why I will not now, not ever, not under the pain of death vote for Obama. And in the future when either a sweetie or a troll tries to waste my time, I am simply pointing them here.
So let’s start with why I love Hillary. And I mean love.
She (and Bill) got a ton of money and power and didn’t forget where they came from. She laughs in the face of “poor” people like Maria Barteromo and Bill O’Reilly when they start whining about tax increases hurting “middle class” people like them. The only thing middle about either Barteromo or O’Reilly is their middling intelligence and Hillary has no problem calling them out on their hypocrisy. In other words- Hillary believes in a PROGRESSIVE TAX SYSTEM. Remember that? Surely when we had higher taxes during the 90’s there must some proof that it hurt the economy severely? No, you mean we had the longest period of sustained growth in a century.
She has a long, and I mean long history of working to improve the lives of children, starting with her work for the Children’s Defense Fund, her book It Takes A Village, etc. Also is a supporter of universal pre-k and expanding access to college education.
Has a long history of working for both equal rights for women and civil rights for everyone, (despite the current race baiting by the other side). She compiled the “Handbook on Legal rights for Arkansas Women”.
Does not believe the voter disenfranchisement is a good campaign strategy. Also wants public financing of campaigns and same day voter registration and no oppressive voter ID requirements. She has always been a strong supporter of voting rights, including working to get the voting age lowered from 21 to 18 during the Vietnam draft.
She has always believed (since her thesis at Wellesley at least) in programs that help people directly, not programs that create bigger bureaucracies. As a person living in poverty, I know that more bureaucracy means more hoops that I have to jump though to get help and less money and resources going to actually help me.
She does not use the divide and conquer strategy of most political elites. Her plans include ways of helping everyone, the poor, the middle class, all races, and both sexes.
Has a solid history of working to better low income housing and to increase affordable home ownership. Also has a solid grip on the economics of the current housing foreclosure crisis and is willing to fight for the homeowners instead of the banks by placing a temporary moratorium on foreclosures.
Is probably the single most experienced politician in the country today working on universal healthcare and has the best plan to create it.
She is not only anti-NAFTA (and has been since 92) but also wants to do away with the Bretton Woods compact. (Bretton Woods being the thing that gave us the IMF and the World Bank) in favor of a system that actually deals with the problems of a global economy instead of creating them. Also voted no on CAFTA.
Wants to eliminate tax breaks for companies that do business in the US but move their production overseas.
Is pro-choice, unquestionably and has the record to prove it.
Wants to make Big Oil fund alternative energy research and wants to invest in alternative energy jobs that can’t be outsourced. Will ratify Kyoto agreement and expand public transportation funding.
This post could go on forever. She has so many years of experience in all the important things and I don’t have a lifetime to type it up.
Mostly, I love Hillary because she is the strongest person I have ever seen in the political arena. She can take any kind of personal insult, humiliation, and hurt and still go on day after day after day fighting for the rest of us. She has the compassion of Eleanor Roosevelt, the pragmatic, energetic optimism of Franklin Roosevelt, the moral fortitude of Lincoln and strength of a mythological hero.
Hillary isn’t an “Us and Them” candidate. She believes in all of us, and she will fight for all of us.
And that is what I love about her. I know she really does care about people like me, and not just when election year rolls around.
Over on the Online Zenana post, Carissa asked “I just wish someone could explain to me what the hell “post-feminism”is”.
So post-feminism is a world where feminism is no longer needed because all sickness of misogyny has been cured.
What would a post-feminist society look like then and how will we know when we get there? For those who think that feminism is only about those educated white lady values like equal pay and reproductive rights, then maybe it is almost a post feminist world.
But it’s about so much more than that.
We will know we are in a post-feminist world when rape is not just something to be prosecuted, but is something that doesn’t happen. As long as men keep raping women, and children, and other men, we need feminists fighting to change the culture that makes rape acceptable and/or excusable.
We will know we are in a post-feminist world when the gender of your baby doesn’t matter to the success of your family to carry on the family name.
We will know we are in a post-feminist world when woman are not financially punished by pregnancy and childcare and when economists no longer need to explain the gender gap by blaming women for doing something that men cannot.
We will know we are in a post-feminist society when we don’t have to teach daughters to be afraid of men from childhood. Don’t walk alone at night will never have to be said to girls and women as warning again.
We will know we are in a post feminist society when we no longer have to worry about electing the first female president, the first gay president, the first trans president, or the first gay, fat, old, brown transwoman (or transman) president. Because the barriers will have been broken so many times that they are a footnote in history.
We will know we are in a post-feminist society when the only professions where women routinely make more money than men (sex work and modeling) no longer exist.
So what do you think makes a post-feminist society?
I’m really fucking sick and tired of people blaming Hillary for Bush’s war.
And I really have a giant crush on Joe Wilson. When Hillary becomes Madam President, I hope she picks him to be the US Ambassador to the UN.
Here, Joe Wilson (who was anti-war Iraq war before most of us even knew a war was coming) smacks the grin off Obama’s anti-war stance.
We are Democrats. We count all the votes, every time.
Disenfranchisement is a Republican tool.
Don’t be a Republican tool.
Count the votes already.
Sincerely,
RQ (and all the voters in MI and FL)
Who was the last president we had that talked about being a Uniter….
Huhmmmmmm?
Think Georgie has a unity pony too?
Seriously, the trolls have taken over. They were harrassing the fabulous Redstar over at Hillary1000 (Dudez- it’s a PRO HILLARY SITE, the only reason you are there is to harass)and our resident stalker is back.
If you peeps could see the sitemeter stats for how long he spends on this site everyday- you’d be freaked. I gotta wonder if he ever takes a break, or works, or leaves his cheetoh covered basement lair, or has friends or sex with anything other than his own hand. It’s really fucking creepy.
And Shakes can’t even put up a post about sexism directed AT Obama without the trolls coming out. You have reasonable Hillary supporters going “yep sexism is bad” and Obamabots screaming “racism is worse!”
Even if I believed all the Unity propaganda about Obama- his followers make it impossible for me to vote for him. It’s like Fundy Christians. Jesus may have been a righteous dude, but his followers are fucking nuts. And I ain’t going near that shit.
The latest awesome video from GeekLove
And GeekLove has this little request:
Here’s my latest video, “American Idol Obama vs. Supergirl Clinton”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n…8oHLJSvrFA& eurl
It is about our “presumptive nominee” and why Clinton is a stronger candidate against John McCain.
I would appreciate your support in publicizing the video on your blog, if you feel it is appropriate. If you do, can I request that you ask your readers go to youtube and RATE, COMMENT, and mark the video as a FAVORITE to help further promote the video.
Thanks for your support.
GeekLove
http://comealongway.blogspot.com/
For those of you who haven’t gotten hooked on this show- this was the last try out from last week. This dude is AWESOME. Watch and love my friends
Haloscan is being shitty.
Super shitty.
If I were Bulgarian, I would say Haloscan’s face is as ugly as salad.
But since I’m in a more Romanian mood I will just say that Haloscan can stick it’s hand up my ass and jack off with my shit.