Increasingly, the first blog I read in the morning is Booman Tribune, where today I find another post that expresses perfectly my feelings on the Clintons, feminism, and the Democratic primary. Here's a tidbit:
During the Bush years, while Al Gore and Jimmy Carter were speaking out, Bill Clinton was touring the world with Poppy Bush, while Hillary Clinton was voting for the war and the Kyl-Lieberman amendment. There are so many reasons to oppose the Clintons politically, including the generally pro-war tilt of her official supporters and advisers, that it really shouldn't be necessary to spell them all out. But I have spelled them out in a brief, cursory way, to make the point that my opposition is based on a wide array of considerations. And these considerations informed my opinion long before the campaign actually started.
I think that's a point that hasn't been made often enough—Bill Clinton's record in the White House and after has hardly been progressive. So why are so many progressives supporting his wife, whose own political inclinations—particularly with foreign policy—aren't that progressive either?
Is there any way to get those progressives back into the fold? Or is it really all about gender and race, and a deck of cards that no one knows who's playing?
Go read the rest—especially the last paragraph.
