Frances Kissling, a 2007-2008 Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and former president of Catholics for a Free Choice pretty much sums up my own reasons why I can’t bring myself to support Hillary Clinton’s Presidential bid in “Why I’m still not for Hillary Clinton”:
When John Edwards stepped up to the podium to concede victory to Barack Obama, he said, ‘The one thing that is clear here in Iowa is that the status quo lost and change won.’ I do not want a feminism that is part of the status quo, and so I do not want the first woman president to be a Clintonian. Every time Hillary Clinton puts on the mantle of the Bill Clinton presidency and reminds us of how important it is to be practical and work with the other side to get things done, I think of every cowardly practical choice that Bill Clinton (or should I say the Clintons together) made. The ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ sellout of gays in the military; the abandonment of Lani Guinier; a failed healthcare reform package that would have sacrificed women’s reproductive health to the Catholic Church’s demands as moral arbiter; a welfare reform bill that actually hurt poor women and their families; and presidential approval of a permanent ban on Medicaid funds for poor women seeking abortions.
(Via Salon.)
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Three cheers for Frances Kissling! Bill and I parted ways because of exactly these reasons: Lani Guinier (whom I had the privilege to see speak–how he could have thrown her over is *beyond* me; she is amazing and I can’t help but wonder why *she* isn’t running for Prez), the Welfare Reform Bill, the Medicaid ban, and that goddamn Defense of Marriage Act, which calls up the bile in me even now. So many failings, so many of them so, so, so important.
I have been an actual crazy person for the last 8 years, because I thought Bill was too Republican. The idea that I would willingly work to put in a Republican-lite Clinton in office again is so out there in the realm of woo-woo that I have to laugh. Not possible. (Of course, if it came down to it, I would vote for your left Dansko against any Repugnican, but you know what I mean.)
OMG, I am so procrastinating on my work right now! Yikes! Wha?
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