Clinton's have not been favs, mostly because of Bill. I simply bought into the "untrustworthy"
because it was drilled in and I never spent the time to educate myself. I also knew that was the case and knew I was not informed. I had all intention of supporting Sanders, still not impressed with Clinton, though more than willing to vote for Clinton in GE. Otherwise is not even a consideration. I did know that a lot of the shit was simply RW attack, and she did well as senator and Sec of State, so I was certainly comfortable with Clinton as president.
In April, I started hearing the same attacks toward Clinton as I had been hearing for a couple years directed at Obama. I had stopped getting into political discussions because there is a faction of Democrats that do nothing but attack our own, regardless of Democrats even accomplishing shit. There was no reasoned conversation and an unwillingness to look at facts or considerations of alternatives and there repercussions.
But, about April of 2015 I started seeing the shift of attacks toward Clinton that Obama would have normally received, and the same language. This made me curious and I started jumping into the political discussion to see what the fuss was.
As I did my research on Sanders (because it is important to actually be informed on the candidate we support, with facts) and I listened to Sanders. Listened to what Sanders said in the past, I was also listening to the facts on Clinton. Any conversation that came up attacking Clinton, I looked for Clinton supporters to get the other side of the story. Then I would do the research and process the information. I truly was astounded at the uninformed, bias attack against Clinton on a regular basis, while the facts sat there for anyone to see. I also started listening to Clinton and researching her accomplishments, and was so thoroughly impressed with how much I was off on Clinton. What an amazing, accomplished, strong, smart, reasoned woman she was and is.
And still, I had an issue with the Clinton name. Mostly because of Bill.
Which brought me to a fun insight. The woman. The woman that was first the Presidents wife, then a Presidents employee. In the supportive role, not in autonomy. I did see some while she was a senator, that I remembered seeing and appreciating.
Hillary Clinton is her own person, and we are seeing that. I am truly interested to see how she will govern. Class is certainly a plus for us as a nation. But smart, and strong. Those make for a good President. Cautioned and reasoned serves us well.
And for those that are dismissive of her being a First woman President, in the decades she forged ahead in a very Patriarchal society just simply miss out on the joy of what a strong and insightful person we will be getting. A woman, that can stand her own. She has had to do it all her life, in the face of dismissal, insult, ridicule is projected toward her in the most unjust ways.
It says something about character. Clinton consistently came up as the most truthful candidate this primary. Sanders a close second.
Clinton has run a very respectful, presidential campaign. That is evidence of her stance with opposition.
I look forward to her presidency.
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