give me reproductive freedom or give me ... healthcare?

[lotesse]

I spent all last night writing my Senators and Representatives - I'd been considering changing my voter registration to Indiana, but that fucker Stupak is keeping me in Michigan so that I can strike out against him in any way that I can. Man makes me ashamed to be a Michigander, which fact I informed him of in the very pissy email I sent off. Planned Parenthood has a good mass-write-Obama thing organized, so I did that too. But my hopes are not very high.

Bill Clinton thinks we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good? This isn't the good. If it was just not helping with abortion access maybe, but this bill would make things even worse than they are now. And abortion rights are too fragile right now, after the chipping-away that's been diminishing them for oh pretty much my entire lifespan, to let this happen. I don't care so much about the perfect, but I'll fight back against the atrocious.

I just wish I had any hope that fighting will make a difference.

Comments

[schemingreader]

YEAH that's what Bill Clinton thinks--look what passed for welfare reform when he was president. That is not a surprise.

I'm really really happy you are a Michiganer. (Yes, I know it's really Michigander, but this way sounds Yiddish and cuter.)

[lotesse]

I like it without the "d"!

I've been hanging on to my Michigan registration for a while now, through four years of Illinois and now, what, six months of Indiana? because my dad has this habit of running for local office up north.

And Bill Clinton can go suck it. The more I read about his years in office, the more I realize what a scumbag he actually was. I was a kid during his admin, and it all seemed pretty superficially sunshiny, but yeah he pretty much gutted class-based aid policies.

[schemingreader]

It's actually a problem with the whole neo-liberal "get things done" ideology. You want to be remembered as doing something. Something! Anything! Even if the reform that the entirely Republican, contract-on-America Congress passes is 180 degrees from what you intended, sign it anyway! I get scared by how many people from Clinton's admin. are in the Obama admin., and how frequently they voice these sentiments.

[lotesse]

I hear that. Ready for that Change now, please, Mr. President!

[marcellinafuriosa]

Yes. Yes. "Ending welfare as we know it" was worthy of the Sheriff of Nottingham.

And meanwhile we lost so many good-paying manufacturing jobs because of f***ing NAFTA.

And a bunch of powerful women lost cred because he hid behind their skirts during his stupid sex scandal. And he tainted his whole party with his general sleaziness.

I'm not sure who did more to wreck the New Deal, him or that last guy.

This is why I love Barack Obama- he's the first president in my lifetime I respect. And I'm still rooting for him, but come on!

[lotesse]

At the moment, I'm trying very hard to love Obama, but he's not helping. And if he's not careful, he's going to lose my respect altogether.