expressing my support

[Two Americas]

I have never been a supporter of Senator Clinton, and was an Edwards supporter. In all honesty I am still not enthusiastic about the Senator's campaign. However, I respect you and your support for her candidacy.

I am posting here because I have been watching women, the GLBT community, and the political veterans from the 60's take a tremendous amount of abuse from the Obama campaign and his supporters, and I want to let you know that I think it is horrific and disgusting, and to express my solidarity with all of you. I may never be enthusiastic about Senator Clinton's campaign, but that does not mean that I will not stand with and defend her supporters, and defend all of us upon whom open season apparently has been declared.

I expect attacks on women and GLBT people and 60's political activists from the right wingers, but what we are seeing from Obama supporters is as bad or worse than anything we see from the right wingers. I am sickened by it. I am so sorry to see so many of you take so much abuse. We are being wounded in the house of our friends - there is nothing worse than that.

[NMMNG]

1. Thank you

Your kind words are very much appreciated. :hi:

[rodeodance]

2. Thank you for your solidarity sister/brother. I is most welcome. and yes, the

willingness to divide by his supporters and been alarming to me.

[Justpat]

3. Thank you.

I appreciate you taking the time to come here and share those thoughts.

It has been pretty shocking to experience here.

Back in the late sixties, I was one of the first women jockeys to ride races
in the US. The abuse we took in those days just for being a woman who
dared to enter a previously all male domain was horrific.
It seems to me that not much has changed.

The thought that a woman has reached the pinnacle of political heights in
2008 still seems to send misogynist into overdrive to fix what they perceive
to be an unacceptable situation. I am saddened to death that our society
could not treat her candidacy as one worthy of even more intelligent criticism.
If you don't like her policies, OK. But the woman hating low lifes that have
posted on this supposedly liberal board are beyond the pale.

[Two Americas]

5. is that right?

Thanks for sharing that story about your jockey career. Very interesting.

I have problems with Senator Clinton's politics - hated to see her working with Penn and McAuliffe, and as with all Democratic party politicians I think they could safely take much stronger stances and move to the left. But the people attacking her aren't talking about politics. The remarks people are making are so obviously sexist, and it is not just a few, it is an avalanche of vile comments. Then we have the causal dismissal of and gross insensitivity toward gay people that has gone on for months here over Obama's association with homophobic spokespeople and figureheads. The trashing of political activists from the 60's would in and of itself be unacceptable and alarming and outrageous, but it pales in comparison to the sexism and homophobia we are seeing from the same quarters. It is sickening.

[BlackVelvet04]

4. thank you for

coming here and expressing solidarity. I appreciate it.