I’ve tried like hell to avoid blogging about politics on Taijiquestion.  For a number of good reasons.  But I guess I’ll just get this off my chest.  Since the news tells of another major, key endorsement for Barack Obama:  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/14/us/politics/14cnd-edwards.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Hillary C., I’m not a big fan of yours but I respect you, for the most part, and I would have voted for you over John McCain (who is a good man and probably the best candidate the Republicans could have put forward).  But now you have an important job to do: help to elect the first African-American president of the United States, a good and great nation that unfortunately permitted slavery, a terrible, evil, immoral, sinful, unjust thing, in the past.  And the end of slavery didn’t bring the end of slavery-like abuses.  But things have changed and they need to keep changing.

What did you say in one of your speeches some time ago, Hillary?  “Now is not the time to turn the clock back!”  That was typical of you, Ms. Clinton.  Some of your supporters like my friend said that Obama lacks substance.  No more than you do!  When I heard what you said I thought, “Gee, Hillary, what WOULD be a good time to turn the clock back?”.  But you were already in your mode of playing to the reactionary/sound-bite crowd.

In the future, assuming America has a future, we will have woman presidents, just like other countries do.  Maybe one of them will be named Clinton.  But you and your husband made a big deal out of your racial fairness, progressiveness, right-mindedness.  Get your mind right, Senator Clinton.  Sure this disappointment has got to hurt like hell.  So, just ask yourself if you are being martyred… or if the world has gone topsy-turvy… or just maybe if you need to be a real, real big person and do the right thing with all the power, all the… character?… that you possess.