Poli Sci 101

I am a woman. I am a black woman. I am a democratic black woman. I am a liberal democratic black woman. I am registered liberal democratic black woman ready to cast my vote. And the question is with whom? The black man? Or the woman? Do I vote for the rookie who is ready to take a chance and go with his gut? Or do I go with the veteran who has a steadier hand balancing her plate with an ease, but not willing to take that leap so soon...?

Hilary is the safe choice. We can easily argue that she is the democratic nominee because it isn't just Hilary we get, its a package deal that worked for us before. We know what Team Clinton is capable of! In a time of division, hunger and pain something familiar is always healing. After everything that we as a people have gone through in the past 7 years, what do we really need?? A sure secure safety net or do we try something completely new.

I cannot help but really be in love with Michelle and Barack Obama... almost just as much as I love Hilary and Bill. Barack is an excellent politician and humanitarian. He sticks to his guns on policy which he has proven in the Senate during the short amount of time he has spent in office. True, he's a newbie to The Hill... but that doesn't mean he is at all incapable of being Commander in Chief.

I know people who are completely dedicated to a single candidate already... I'm talking full blown t shirts, campaigning, phone banking, etc. since the announcements. Unfortunately as bad as this sounds, I'm not married to a candidate yet. I am still in the courting pool excited with the amount of good choices and that we have two very capable leading candidates!! Am I a bad democrat?? Am I a bad American?? All I want to do is turn the republican conservative right wing party on their ass, take over and rebuild and revamp our country!! And to be quite honest I really don't care whether it's Clinton or Obama!!! BUT... Barack did say something that other day on Jay Leno that kinda stuck with me because I had to agree with him, I'm tired of being against something all the time. I've spent the last seven years being against everything, that it would be nice to be to be passion about an issue that has nothing to do with changing someone's fuck up!!! Right?!? ugh!