Hillary looked around for a state to run for senate in in 2000. She chose New York. It was the state I was living in, paying taxes in, and raising young children in. She reverse carpetbagged it, and I say that as a person with very, very deep southeastern US roots. I didn’t like that at all, but I voted for her because the other candidate sucked. New York may be a reliably blue state, but the democratic candidates the machine runs are certified oligarch wannabes if not oligarchs in their own right.

When 9/11 happened I was on the phone with a person who was on the phone with a person who died in the towers right then. That really sucked. You know what sucked more? What sucked more is that Hillary voted to go to war with Iraq.

My kids were 8 and 10 at the time. Now they’re 23 and 25 and their lives have been negatively impacted by that vote more than I could have even imagined at the time, even though I knew at the time I disagreed with it. That’s not something I can easily dismiss.

I didn’t like her then. I don’t like her now. I wish she’d do something to help me change my opinion, but she doesn’t seem to care about people like me. Just because I’m not rich doesn’t mean I’m stupid. I don’t think she gets that. Her condescending attitude towards people who don’t run in her circles really puts me off. Whatever. Back to the phone banking.