I am getting very tired of hearing that if I reject Sen. Clinton's candidacy, it must be because I am a) sexist, b) racist or c) part of a vast left-wing conspiracy.
Is it unimaginable that I have painstakingly researched the backgrounds, resumes, senate records and rhetoric of both candidates and choose Sen. Obama? I have rejected Sen. Clinton's argument that she is an experienced, great leader when she has shown no leadership - her inability to reel in loose cannons such as her husband, Carville or Mark Penn, her inability to reach across the aisle for anything resembling compromise - from the health care reform attempt as First Lady to the "you're with us or against us" gas tax holiday (who is "us" exactly?) and the rejection of a 69-59 compromise for MI which her supporter Gov. Granholm proposed, to the rejection of African American voters, to the Bosnia "mis-speaks", to the inability to ever congratulate another candidate on a primary win.
This, to me, is not leadership.
Every bone in my body would love to see a woman president in my lifetime. But my heart and head tell me Hillary is not the one. Everything I've learned tells me that Obama is a once-in-a-lifetime candidate that can truly move us in a positive direction. I have chosen one candidate over another.
Can it be that simple? Yes.