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.)
