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From Kimberly:
Okay, I am sending you to a mainstream media source, but, this map is really fun. Connected to it, you can find the Republican primary map for Long Island and other results.
I wish that Newsday had more Green Party coverage. Though, in this case, they are sort of off-the-hook, since there was not a Green Party primary to report here in New York.
Anyway, if you want to see a really cool map, with different color bubbles for where Obama won and where Hillary won, look here.
I have to confess. While there are several different reasons that Obama topped Clinton in Amityville, I like to think that it had something to do with the fact that Obama is more identified with “peace”, and our local peace (and justice) group, PeaceSmiths, held a candidates debate in Amityville on January 18th. Maybe we effected the bubbles…just a little?…
[Now, here on my blog, I can say…I don’t like/trust any of the top Democratic contenders. And, I have heard some of Obama’s stands that worry me. Though, it really, really bothered me when Hillary Clinton voted for the Iraq War, and made the statement that she did so despite the tens of thousands of e-mails and phone calls she got asking her not to. I truly consider Hillary Clinton a pro-war, flag-waving candidate.]
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According to the demographics, I should be voting for Hillary Clinton: I’m a white, 60-year-old, highly educated woman from the Northeast. But I’m voting for Obama. I’ve waited all my life for a viable woman candidate for the presidency, but this is not the right woman. I want a woman of the highest ability and virtue, who would serve as a glorious role model to all young women. Hillary Clinton is not that woman.
She rode into power with her husband, and together they’ve acquired a long and seriously flawed history of self-serving and secretive financial and political dealings. The most cursory research will prove that true. She started out her political life supporting the racist Barry Goldwater. She is as comfortable with deception and trickery as George Bush. When I hear woman saying, “Oh, but that’s how you get things done in Washington,” I literally cringe.
I am passionately supporting Barack Obama. He can beat the Republicans; she cannot. Obama has attracted Independents and even Republicans to his camp, and in a general election they would vote for him, but not for Clinton. Clinton voted for the war, and has never apologized for it. Obama has spoken out against it from the beginning. Obama brings us hope–and not just that. Take a serious look at his ideas and experience.
Please, I beg of you, Sisters young and old: wait for the right woman. Then we can be proud.
Diane Wald