March 30, 2008

"It's Not Because She is a Woman..."

According to a new NBC/WSJ poll, Hillary Clinton now has a 37 percent positive rating, the lowest the NBC/WSJ poll has recorded since March 2001, two months after she was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York.

Countless American men and women are growing weary of the misogyny card played by Hillary supporters. Over and over again. They claim Hillary is not liked because she is a woman (Even Hillary herself referred this week to two United States Senators calling for her to leave the race as an act of men bullying a woman - gee, I wonder what it was when people called for Romney and Huckabee to withdraw?)

'They' can't face the possibility that an awful lot of people just don't like Hillary, not because she is a woman, but because of who she is as a human being. They don't like her dishonesty, her sense of entitlement, her belittling tone, her smear campaign tactics of race and fear mongering - just to name a few.

I am the father of three magnificent daughters. I want them to see a woman president elected in their lifetime. I want them to believe and know they can reach for anything and achieve it - that they too might one day sit in the oval office.

I also want them to know that accomplishments and success mean nothing if you lack good character and human decency at the core of your being.

zjm

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