Primarily because she was frustrated with the Clinton campaign’s dirty tactics:
Hillary Clinton was telling…pro-choice rallies of young women that Barack Obama was weak on choice when he was a state senator which was patently false. I was president of Chicago NOW at the time and I worked closely with him. He had a 100% voting record and 100% with NARAL and Planned Parenthood.
After a friend received a deceptive direct mail flyer from the Clinton campaign attacking Obama on choice, she finally made the decision to switch. I am sure that this is a decision this career reproductive rights activist did not make casually.
h/t to Andrew Sullivan
4 responses so far ↓
1 TammyT // Jan 24, 2008 at 5:17 pm
I’m starting to feel the same way. I can’t tell what Clinton’s approach is besides “beat the other guys down”. It’s a tactic used by the Republicans, and it sucks.
I may not agree with everything Obama says, but he is proving to be the only serious hopeful who is sticking to the issues, rather than trying to show how the other candidates are inferior to him.
If you want to know what a president will be like in office, don’t listen to what he says, listen to how he says it, and why he says it (or she). That will tell you far more about what their presidency will be like than their promises or points of view on policy.
I think this country is more than ready for a woman president. I don’t think Clinton is ready to be that first woman president.
2 xJane // Jan 24, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I think that exemplifies my feelings. We were talking about this in the GR today: I find it difficult not to support Hillary because she is a woman; and a democrat. But I don’t really agree with her.
3 Chanel // Jan 25, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Voting or NOT voting for a candidate based on gender and or race is one of the easiest ways to get sucked into a cycle of 4-8 years of regret. I am an African American woman. A DEMOCRAT. I have TWO candidates whom i could say well…im a woman Clinton’s a woman, so let me vote for her. Or i could say well…im black, he’s of African American heritage, so i need to vote for Obama. Instead I chose to use a small thing called BRAINpower and im doing the research, listening to the debates, following both campaign trails. And the candidate whose values, ethics, sense of conviction and overall GOODNESS is the one that has prevailed for me, and that candidate is Barack Obama. Dont be blindsided by a persons gender or skin color. You’ll be shorting yourself.
4 Michelle Franklin // Feb 26, 2008 at 8:41 am
” I think this country is more than ready for a woman president. I don’t think Clinton is ready to be that first woman president. ”
WOW! I hope you don’t mind my quoting this far and wide - cause I’m going to. As a woman, I am deeply offended by this message of “support Hillary or you’re anti-woman.” As the other poster said, I’ve followed this campaign closely and used my BRAIN.
Hillary cannot govern. She cannot unite. She cannot inspire. With the tough economic times that lie ahead, we need a president who has proved an ability to work with both parties to bring about real change.
There is no serious question about who our next president needs to be — BARACK OBAMA!
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