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As the Democratic Party primary season draws to a close, with a nominee to be decided today (hopefully), I find myself in a crisis of conscience. For the first time in my life, there is a real chance that a woman could be actually elected President of the United States, and I'm feeling a little guilty that I am hoping she is going to go down in a ball of flames.
Here are a few of the reasons why I have decided lay aside my feminist ideals to support Obama over Clinton:
1. I try to never do what everyone else is doing, and apparently, in WV, supporting Obama is not cool-- unless you are a Super Delegate. I don't know why, but I was surprised to find that the people of WV would vote for a woman ahead of a black man. The media treatment of this is fascinating. Every report I've seen has tap-danced around the fact that the reason Hillary is so strong in WV is because she's white.
2. I'm pretty sure that the idea would make Rush Limbaugh's head explode.
3. I was seriously disappointed in the way that the Clinton campaign behaved over the Democratic Party Rules Committee decision about Michigan. According to MSNBC, all this fuss is over 4 delegates, which is not enough to get Hillary the nomination. The reaction is not appropriate to the situation. Harold Ickes' hypocritical rant on Saturday was the only time I've ever had to sensor CNN for language in front of my young children when Dick Cheney wasn't speaking.
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