Why an African American Lesbian Chose Edwards Over Obama & Clinton
01.03.08 (10:50 am) posted by Genia
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The results are in: Left-leaning MySpacers love Obama. Conservative MySpacers chose Ron Paul over Still-Ridin-the-911-Wave Rudy Giuliani.
Before we shrug off
MySpace's results and proclaim that MySpace is full of 14 year olds who don't know what's really good for the country,
head on over to MySpace and do a quick age check. The amount of voting-age MySpacers will shock you.
A few weeks ago, I wrote the post John Edwards, Go Away Please. So, it might come
as a huge surprise to SistersTalk readers that I voted for John Edwards in the (unofficial) MySpace Primary yesterday.
Snooty bloggers will shun results like those posted on MySpace, but because I'm convinced social networking communities
can will be a great way to gauge public
opinion, I won't be so closed-minded.
So, why did I choose Edwards over Hillary-the-female and Obama-the-Black-Man? Simple. Edwards' platform and voting record shows me he's the candidate
whose views are closest to my own. It's too bad his
views on gay marriage annoy the hell outta me.
An email from Truth Wins Out (TWO) finally put into words how I'm feeling about Obama. TWO's Wayne Besen presented the
question: Would Obama be a revolutionary president that heals divisions
and restores credibility to America? Or, he would be a
rhetorically gifted Jimmy Carter - inexperienced
in foreign policy and too weak to reach his full potential?
My guess: Obama is all rhetoric. There's no doubt in my mind that
Obama can definitely do a lot to address the division Bush's regime created in this country;
however, he's too inexperienced to sucessfully pull the country out of our mess with Iraq. If he were to win the election, I hope he
surrounds himself with a staff that is much more experienced in foreign policy than he is. A friend of mine stated last week that if Obama wins the Democratic
nomination, his GOP rival will do everything in his power to associate Obama's name (Obama Bin Laden, for example) with extreme Muslim terrorists
-- resorting to the same old worn-out scare tactics
Bush used in 2004. And because Americans are gullible, they'll fall for it.
As for Hillary Clinton . . . I just can't get over the idea that we'll see another 4 years of Bill Clinton if Hillary is elected.
I did not appreciate Bill the way other left-leaning folks did.
The royal screwin' gay Americans received with Clinton's Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) and
the Defense of Marriage Act makes me wonder if we'll receive more of the same with another Clinton in the house.
I'll be the first to admit it's unfair to judge Hillary for her husband's acts, but as Rhonda Byrne says,
like attracts like.
I will support whichever Democratic candidate who emerges as the party's top candidate for 2008 -- just as I did in 2004 -- even if that candidate isn't the person I really wanted
to see on the ticket.
liberal bloggers
The results are in: Left-leaning MySpacers love Obama. Conservative MySpacers chose Ron Paul over Still-Ridin-the-911-Wave Rudy Giuliani.
Before we shrug off
MySpace's results and proclaim that MySpace is full of 14 year olds who don't know what's really good for the country,
head on over to MySpace and do a quick age check. The amount of voting-age MySpacers will shock you.