There is an uncomfortableness about politics that sometimes distorts making good decisions. Awkwardness is excused when it comes to male candidates. Upon reflection, the pandering that comes with winning votes and minds—kissing babies, bowling badly, drinking warm beer, or awkwardly eating a corndog, eventually become charming examples of egotistical naivety. When it was revealed that Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) once improvised a fork using a comb because none was available, what Barack Obama called “silly season” began. Hillary Clinton consented to an interview on the New York radio show The Breakfast Club hosted by “Charlamagne tha God” and brought a bottle of hot sauce. She claimed to always have the hot sauce in her bag, confirmed by members of her campaign, but the rhetorical damage was done. The stories mushroomed into examples of tyrannical behavior by Klobuchar and accusations of pandering by Clinton; imagine that—a politician pandering
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned America that Republicans would travel the path of fascism, puppetry, and chaos if Donald Trump were elected. To my dismay, too many white women were influenced by men who would not drink a beer with her and voted for a man who admitted he would assault them or their daughters, given a chance. Even former Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz agreed he needed to protect his daughter from a predator:
“I can no longer in good conscience endorse this person for president,” said Chaffetz. It is some of the most abhorrent and offensive comments that you can possibly imagine. My wife and I, we have a 15-year-old daughter, and if I can’t look her in the eye and tell her these things, I can’t endorse this person,” he concluded.
Apparently, Mr. Chaffetz bought a good pair of Ray-Bans. Later, he was able to look past his daughter’s eyes because he subsequently voted for Mr. Trump, “I will not defend or endorse @realDonaldTrump, but I am voting for him,” Chaffetz tweeted. “[Hillary Rodham Clinton] is that bad. HRC is bad for the USA.” A vote is an endorsement on Earth, but it has a different meaning on planet Hypocrite.
The things we admire in men, toughness, decisiveness, intelligence, and leadership, are perceived as negatives in women. Ms. Clinton was described as shrewish and shrill, Ms. Klobuchar was called tyrannical, and VP Kamala Harris is criticized for being demanding of her staff. You may not want to go bowling, share her hot sauce or drink a beer with Ms. Clinton, but it is time we admit she was not the lesser but the alternative to real evil. She warned us of Trump’s rank hypocrisy and flip-flops on gun control, abortion, and the Iraqi war, to name a few. Donald Trump’s ideas, “[They] are dangerously incoherent. They are not even really ideas, just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies,”Clinton said of Trump.
The beer is on me!
I am still baffled by those who cling to the notion that Clinton and Trump are the same. Does anyone question how differently Mrs. Clinton would have dealt with the now infamous Zelenskyy phone call? The mishandling of the call between Trump and Zelenskyy may have been the catalyst for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. After a million dead, is there still any question she would have handled the Covid-19 pandemic better? Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barret would be on lower courts and not on the precipice of affirming women as second-class citizens. The next time you think about her cackling laugh or pantsuits, remember those “female trivialities” may have robbed America of the first woman and possibly the best President the country has ever seen.
Cheers!
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