Requiem for a Heavyweight

[Sundoggy]

The year was 1992 and I was fully occupied with the premature birth of my youngest daughter, spending hours a day at the hospital feeding her through a doll-sized bottle. So I was in no mood to be civil when someone had a snide remark about my Clinton-Gore T-shirt. (This is Texas, after all.)

"Get used to it," I smiled evilly. "Because you're going to get eight years of him... then eight years of Gore... then eight years of Hillary. How old will Chelsea be by then?" I mused.

It got the desired effect.

I remember many times in the nineties fencing with righties over their irrational hatred of Hillary. "You're simply weak men," was my response, "a strong woman sets off all your alarms. A real man isn't threatened by a strong woman." Talk about hitting them where it hurts. I still believe that to be true.

I have admired this woman since I first knew about her. I thought, she's the one - she has what it takes to be the first female President. I have always admired strong women and couldn't wait to see it happen.

When the primary season started, I began as a Hillary supporter, then migrated to Edwards as I felt he was a better spokesperson for the "angry left", which certainly describes me. When he dropped out, I decided to support Obama, mainly on the issues.

I give this lengthy introduction to hopefully show my bona fides as a decade and a half long Clinton supporter. At this point in the race I still had immense respect for Hillary; I just felt Obama expresed my views better.

Then it started.

Over and over and over again, this person I had admired for a decade and a half was tripping my Bad Person alarms. I watched in horror as it got worse and worse. I'm not interested in a point by point debate about this; the optics were and still are horrible, and people as savvy as the Clintons should have seen that a mile away. Or is it that they see it clearly and simply don't care?

Now I watch with horror as the person I admired so much, aided by her ferociously misguided supporters, grits her teeth, spits on her hands and, with her apparent determination to draw this out no matter who it hurts, gets seriously down to the work of utterly, completely destroying herself as a political entity... forever.

Just makes me sad, that's all.

[Joe Chi Minh]

1. You and many others, Sundoggy.

[truedelphi]

2. Just watched the movie "Michael Collins" - and when Collins tells

Everyone in the Irish government to spit on him, destroy his reputation, if they want to, but to PLEASE take the step forward with Irish determination allowed by England, I thought, "Wow. A real statesman."

Basing this on what Ihave watched Hillary do over the last five mos or so, Hillary would have said, "Spit on the movement, and who cares about Ireland, but give *ME* respect."