Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Hillary Makes the Case

I voted for Hillary Clinton in our state primary.
This isn't a lecture from outside the fold.
It is a lecture to say, much as Senator Clinton did tonight, that if you voted for her in the primaries, you cannot vote for John McCain in November. What did Hillary run on? The same things that she has worked for her entire adult life! Opportunity for all. Healthcare for all. Education for all. You know, as in "...and liberty and justice for all!"
That is the Democratic platform. That is Barack Obama's purpose in life, too.
The Republican party is about keeping what they've got and acting like they accomplished something, when all they've done is keep their boot on the neck of the poor, shovel out money to the rich like coal into a steam locomotive, start wars that are basically fought by the children of families who can't find jobs, serve their shareholders by refusing to raise the minimum wage, provide adequate healthcare or keep college affordable for working families dreaming of moving up. All this and much more as bad if not worse.
If you voted for Hillary Clinton and now intend to vote for John McCain, what were you doing in the primary? The Senator asked the question herself tonight: were you in it just for her, or for the people and causes that she has fought for all her life?
Sober up! Straighten up! Get back to work, and stop this Republican madness while we still have a country at all!

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