I'm Considering ...
Categories: Bush Administration, Life, Campaign 2008, Ideas, Ideals
It's all well and good that Gail Collins wrote the following in a New York Times Op-Ed piece titled "What Hillary Won" ...
"... For all her vaunting ambition, she was never a candidate who ran for president just because it’s the presidency. She thought about winning in terms of the things she could accomplish, and she never forgot the women’s issues she had championed all her life — repair of the social safety net, children’s rights, support for working mothers ... It’s not the same as winning the White House. But it’s a lot."
Read it all:
And then the provocative piece by Ellen Goodman making an earnest request of Obama on behalf of us disillusioned women of a certain age:
"You've insisted you're running not to govern a demographic but to inspire a nation of individuals. Prove it. The real reason you have to reach out to women like us is that it will signal that you really mean to stand for a different America, a nation in which a black man can take up the concerns of white women for the sake of the greatest good ..."
Read it all: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/what_obama_should_tell_women.html
But
of course Obama has done no such thing, nor will he ever. Because he is
proving to be completely the politician -- not the Second Coming
envisioned by his followers!
For
me, these thoughts are not enough. Not when a respected writer opines
that it will take 100 years to recover from Bush. Nor when I feel
sickened at the degradation of our trusted institutions and the theft
of our rights that have been perpetrated on us with impunity over the
past 7-1/2 years.
And so on this patriotic holiday I contemplate the ultimate divorce ...
Carolan
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