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NoPasaran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 02:16 PM
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The Presidency that never was
Well, I guess it's time for me to come clean and confess that it's all my fault that Hillary Clinton was not sworn in as the Forty-fourth President of the United States at noon today. The fact is, the only time the primary candidate I supported went on to win the Presidential nomination was in 1972, when as a high school student too young to vote I totally fell in love with George McGovern. (And we all know how that turned out.)

Since then, I've been a sucker for every long-shot left-wing guy who's come down the road. Fred Harris, Jesse Jackson, Howard Dean... all hopes raised and crushed and discarded like dixie cups at a ball game.

So for some reason when 2008 rolled around, I bit the bullet and stepped completely out of character. Time to put away childish things and childish infatuations. Sure, it would be easy to support this Obama guy, but I'm a grown up now. Bite your lip and accept the inevitability of President Hillary Clinton. How could the entire chattering class be wrong? Time to be on the winning side for once in my life.

And so the jinx was in.

Well, President Obama, make us proud. And Hillary, well, sorry about that.
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kikiek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 06:09 PM
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1. It just wasn't meant to be. I love her and think she would be a great president. I now
think we needed Barack anyways. I think he will bring this country back together.
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DemExpat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-20-09 07:35 PM
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2. Love your post.
Thanks!

I have also been proven wrong in this election, as far as partly backing Hillary because having my roots in the South I was so afraid that white American would not elect a non-white candidate. I wanted a Democrat in office!

Now it seems that the Best Man did win, and that Hillary will be in a great position to do great work anyway.

I could not be happier with this wonderful event of Obama's Inauguration.

:thumbsup:

DemEx
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