I’m not against hope and change and the 21^st cen­tury and etc., I’m all for it, and I believe that my can­di­date has a bet­ter chance of deliv­er­ing. Here’s why:

1. She does have more expe­ri­ence, and her time in the White House very much counts– for the last fif­teen years she’s been sub­ject to a bar­rage of neg­a­tive press and the attacks of an intensely rival polit­i­cal party that hates no one more than it hates her, and over all that time she’s learned how to han­dle her­self very well indeed. Fur­ther­more, the Repub­li­cans have noth­ing new to throw at her, and the pub­lic is very much sick of the same old shit. Mean­while, the press keeps dig­ging up crap on Obama, and when this cam­paign goes neg­a­tive, all the hope in the world won’t change what­ever else they come up with.

2. Her poli­cies are pro­foundly more pro­gres­sive than Obama’s. Her health care plan goes far­ther, her energy plan is greener, and she has a bet­ter plan for the econ­omy. Rhetoric about change does not equal change. Obama’s speech­writ­ers are fan­tas­tic, but they’re not run­ning for president.

3. Fuck unity. Wasn’t George W. Bush sup­posed to be a uniter, not a divider? Look where that got us. I can’t think of a bet­ter way to pun­ish the Repub­li­cans who gave us eight fuck­ing years of G.W.B. than elect­ing some­one as uni­ver­sally reviled on the right as Hillary Clin­ton is. We don’t need fuck­ing unity, we need uni­ver­sal health care. Get over your sen­si­bil­i­ties and fight dirty for once, Democrats!

4. Obama had “ex-gay” gospel singer Don­nie McClurkin, a man who once iden­ti­fied as gay but now con­sid­ers homo­sex­u­al­ity a “curse” that runs against the “inten­tion of god,” appear on his behalf dur­ing a cam­paign tour of South Car­olina. After a minor shit-storm in the blo­gosh­pere, Obama added an openly gay min­is­ter to the tour with­out apol­o­giz­ing or oust­ing McClurkin. Lame. Obama also refused to be pho­tographed with San Francisco’s “gay mar­riage mayor” Gavin New­som at a fundraiser held for Obama in SF.

5. I’ve been in love with Hillary Clin­ton for way too long to switch now, and I’m a sucker for an under­dog, which she def­i­nitely is in Seattle.

Regard­less of how you feel about her per­son­ally, and real­iz­ing that she is actu­ally human (despite what the media tell you), I gotta say I think she’s far and away the bet­ter can­di­date. Will I head down to a pier way south of down­town to see her speak at eight o’clock tonight? Prob­a­bly not. Feb­ru­ary + night­time + the water­front = hell fuck­ing no. What a ter­ri­ble venue.