Dan Solis from ThinkYouth sent me this video along with this note:
If this doesn’t get you motivated to endorse Hillary on your blog, I don’t know what will.
I gotta admit, this video made me tear up a bit. Have you seen it already?
March 2, 2008
Why Hillary?
Posted by frecklescassie under Blogroll, Commentary, Election 2008, Hillary Clinton, Liberal, Political, Politics, Progressive, Texas, White House, current events, feminism, presidential election, primaries, voting[9] Comments
March 2, 2008 at 11:55 am
Vote for the candidate who will be the best president! Vote for the one who will be able to fix all the things that Bush and the Republicans broke. Don’t vote based on gender or race.
Wisdom that, Cassie. Use good judgment…hmmm…that sounds like a campaign theme as well as a voting strategy.
March 2, 2008 at 12:35 pm
I take especial umbrage at using the dead for an endorsement. It was icky when the Repiglickins were channeling Saint Raygun and it’s icky here, too.
Ann Richards was FAR too astute a politician ever to reduce an election to a question of reproductive plumbing or skin color. The one thing we KNOW she would have done is to look at which candidate had the greater chance of beating back another Repiglickin threat to democracy.
Would that have been Clinton? Obama? Sadly, the great lady is gone and we simply don’t know.
What we do know is that ads such as this smack of desperation, regardless of whether one is a Hillarian or an Obamaniac.
March 2, 2008 at 12:36 pm
Hear, hear! Well spoken, Bruce…er, Cassie.
March 2, 2008 at 12:44 pm
There was a country song a few years ago about a high school girl who lost all her hair during chemo. Much to her suprise, she was asked to the big dance “anyway” by a boy who then shaved his hair the day of the dance. That’s courage. Big hair? Not so much. Mentioning on an ad that you once knew a wonderful politician who had big hair? Yawn!
March 2, 2008 at 12:55 pm
If I were a campaign donor, I’d be pissed that my money was used for such lame advertising.
Couldn’t Hillary think of a piece of advice she got from Ann that was more profound, a tad more relevant to the issues?
If not, it must be because Hillary only paid attention to what Ann said about hair. ‘Cause I’m sure Ann had a lot more to say to her.
March 2, 2008 at 1:07 pm
[...] also posted this at my own blog, where many comments have come in. Here is my tribute to Ann Richards the week that she [...]
March 2, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Hate to show my ignorance and say I, out here in California, had never heard of Ann Richards before now. Nice tribute to her, Cass, especially the stuff about recovery meetings in prisons. As far as this SICK Hillary ad goes, though, to me this is just an emotional ploy, especially playing on the memory of Ann Richards. Doesn’t say a damn thing about HILLARY, though, and what she can DO to start to get us out of this mess. I agree with Bob Kincaid regarding the desperation, which is quite blatant at this point, IMHO. Another ad, which Malloy discussed on Friday, was the one involving the phone call at 3 a.m. Sad. To me Hillary is a brilliant woman who making a tragic spectacle of herself at this point. The demise is painful.
March 2, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Okay, so it is a well done ad, but should she really be calling on people to vote for her based on her view that Ann Richards might have supported her. I mean, didn’t we all laugh when the Republicans tried to see who had taken the most pictures together with Ronald Reagan?
March 2, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Hear, hear, Cassie! Ann Richards was a wonderful and intelligent person who certainly would have thought through her endorsement. What it might have been, none of us can know. I’m with you that informed decision-making should be what guides us now. Great post. (And great other post on the governor’s passing. Had me in tears).
best,
L.