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{"id":1379,"date":"2016-10-08T19:47:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T23:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/steelmagnificat\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2016-10-08T19:53:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T23:53:14","slug":"you-know-who-i-feel-sorry-for-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/steelmagnificat\/2016\/10\/you-know-who-i-feel-sorry-for-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"You Know Who I Feel Sorry For Right Now?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I feel sorry for my daughter.<\/p>\n

At the moment I write this, a month til the general election, Hillary Clinton stands at the cusp of an 85% chance of winning the presidential election. A virtual shoe-in. The first woman president of the United States of America. The first woman president in over 200 years. History is being made. Huzzah.<\/p>\n

And what kind of woman? A woman who supports abortion, which I view to be a hideous crime against women and children, a true sign that our society completely disvalues the vocation\u00a0of motherhood. A woman in bed with corporate money. A woman who is a war hawk. A woman who\u2019s basically an old Republican white guy only openly pro-choice. I\u2019m not one of those hysterical conspiracy theorists about Hillary Clinton, I don\u2019t think she\u2019s the antichrist or the worst person in the world, but she\u2019s not my idea of an inspiration, not by a long shot. I\u2019ll stick with Joan of Arc, \u00a0 <\/a>Catherine of Sienna and\u00a0Elizabeth Cady Stanton.<\/p>\n

And why Hillary Clinton\u00a0a virtual shoe-in?<\/p>\n

Is it because of her resume? Is it because she\u2019s been an attorney for so many years? Is it because she was a senator or\u00a0the Secretary of State? Is it because of her ideas and\u00a0plans\u2013 many of which I do support and some of which, as I\u2019ve already said, I oppose?<\/p>\n

No. She might have won regardless, but right now she\u2019s winning because her opponent is the worst example of a human being America has to offer. An overt racist. A\u00a0philandering cad who brags about sexual assault and who\u2019s appeared in a porno. A trust fund baby who frittered away 900 million dollars and may not have paid a cent in taxes since. A man with a raging case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. A man who has never held public office. A reality television star. A man who started his campaign by saying that Mexicans are rapists and has now been revealed to be a sexual abuser himself. Frankly, I feel sorry for Hillary Clinton. I dislike her, but nobody deserves this. She\u2019s extremely likely to\u00a0go down in history as the first woman president, but she\u2019ll go down in history as the woman who won because her opponent was a joke. She might have won anyway, but she\u2019s going to win because her opponent is a joke. We\u2019re going to remember this hideous joke of an election for generations.<\/p>\n

And, as I\u2019ve said, I\u2019m sorry for my daughter, who will have to read in history about this mess, and who may be told and come to believe that a woman can only become president if she runs against a joke. That a woman\u2019s only chance to hold office is if the man she\u2019s running against is a disaster; that she wouldn\u2019t have a chance against a competent man. I hope that\u2019s not the line she gets, but she might.<\/p>\n

What a mess.<\/p>\n

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