I was watching the Town Hall last night. After reading so many posts here at DKos with all the too and fro, and as an admitted Bernie bro (if you must), I wanted to give Hillary a chance. I did my very best to clear out my baggage and listen.
Her appearance didn’t begin all that well as Anderson Cooper threw out the “are you a progressive?”red meat. I can agree with her premise that she does have some progressive pedigree so lets just leave it at that and move on.
After the intro, she began to relax a little. While I found her answers ramble a bit, that’s okay, at least much of what she was saying seemed genuine. Then she completely fell into what is an absolute obvious land mine...her taking money from Goldman Sachs.
Hillary Clinton expected me to believe that she had not decided to run for President at the time she was taking Goldman money. That has to be a bald faced lie. This demonstrated to me that not only was she not able to be genuine with me, she is probably lying to herself. For a person who is said to have experience in high stakes foreign diplomacy and across the aisle negotiation, how could she fail so miserably on a basic and predictable question ?
She then had to return to the I am more Progressive ran suggesting that Bernie was besmirching Paul Wellstone’s honor. Really Hillary ? Really ?
Hillary please accept who you are. It’s ok to be a moderate. It’s even ok for many in the voting public to take Goldman money… maybe you are maintaining a dialog with the dark side to work to get shit done and besides, as a Clinton, you have to payoff some whopper legal bills ? I don’t know but don’t dance around and grasp at various lies. It’s obvious and you are taking me for a fool.
Hillary, quit trying to be something you are not. Relax, be your moderate self with a resume of experience and let the voters decide. Frankly, I believe you are going to win anyway and all this nonsense is de-energizing your base — and you will need every damn one of our votes in the general.
This is where I swear on a stack of maple syrup jugs that I will vote for you after the primaries...DONE.