Here is what I thought in the voting booth:
GOD I love Hillary. I always have. She is brilliant and tough and she makes the bad guys have to floss the carpet out of their teeth. Hooray for Hillary!
But so what? Is it just about feminism? That's a stupid reason to vote for anyone! Especially someone who couldn't even show up for the vote on the bankruptcy bill! What the hell kind of crap is that? Oh, her husband was in the cardiac unit, but still. She wasn't THERE.
That bitch! Screw her! I'm voting for Obama! Not only did he vote against the bankruptcy bill, he voted against the war. He voted for a lot of good things.
But can he win?
What do you mean, can he win! What the hell kind of a racist question is that! If you don't vote for Obama because you think the country is racist, then you're part of the problem!
That's it. I'm voting for Obama!
Even though Hillary owns him on health care! Even though the first time some Republican asshole says boo, all Barack's brotherhood-of-man stuff will evaporate like paint thinner on a hot stove. I know that--but--
But he really does connect in a deep and profound way with a renewed sense of hope and possibility and morning in America and
SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH THAT!
HOW OLD ARE YOU, ANYWAY!
EVERYBODY WHO EVER RAN FOR OFFICE SAYS THAT!
You know, that's what I like about Hillary! She may be devious, but at least she's up front about it. If you call her devious she'll say that's not necessarily so in all circumstances. If you call Obama devious he'll say something like no, he is not either. I don't think the guy KNOWS from devious!
So is that who you want? Somebody who doesn't even know how to be devious?
BANG! THERE! I VOTED FOR HIM!
The Exit Poll: I voted for him because--because--because okay, here's because: Because the other night, after Hillary said she wanted the Florida delegates after all, thus pulling the rug out from under her fellow Democrats who hadn't campaigned in Florida, I dreamed she was the Alien and that she chewed her way out of a chest cavity in a shower of blood and chopped up bits of lung and breastbone, that's why I voted for him.
I can still vote my feminist tendencies. If it's Hillary in November, I'll vote for her. Today I surprised myself, and I voted for Barack Obama.