Getting Desperate

By bashing the youth vote because she thinks it would give her a leg up against Obama in Iowa, and creating a negative environment through relentless attacks that allow the "Barack is a Muslim" smear to be distributed by an Iowa campaign chair, Hillary Clinton has really ended any hopes for getting my full-throated support. I wasn't jazzed about her before, but I was willing to work for a Democratic President in 2008. I don't think I can work for someone who so clearly associates with a Bush/Rove-style attack politics. Add in her general hawkishness on foreign policy issues, and her continued defense of incremental change which would be a throwback to "we did the best we can" Third Way-ism from the 90s (and like we see in California today), I don't think I could see fit to knock on one door or make one phone call on her behalf. There are plenty of better Democrats around the country that would be more worthy of my time.

This is particularly true of the youth vote, we're going to need them more than ever in 2008, and it's unconscionable to promote such an exclusionary policy.

UPDATE: Shorter Hillary Clinton: "How dare Barack Obama run for President! Doesn't he know he has to get in the back of the bus?" These attacks reveal a real hatred, and it's ugly.