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Thread #108983   Message #2352422
Posted By: Little Hawk
29-May-08 - 05:23 PM
Thread Name: BS: Voting for Hillary?
Subject: RE: BS: Voting for Hillary?
How one sees Hillary OR Obama's behaviour is entirely dependent on one's prior prejudice for or against Hillary or Obama.

People will not own up to their own prejudices honestly. They're usually not even aware that they ARE prejudiced. (And I am not referring to racism when I say that...just to prejudice, period. Prejudice against a person's personality...not their race profile.)

Some people here decided from the getgo not to like Hillary. They will almost always find fault in what she says or does. Some people here decided from the getgo not to like Obama. They will almost always find fault in what he says or does.

They are not being objective about it, they're just harping on their emotional need to continue to attack somebody they decided not to like at some point in the past.

If the person they like did and said the very same kind of things as the person they don't like...the same things they object to when the person they don't like is doing them...they would applaud those things when done or said by the person they like.

It's funny. It's also rather sad. And 99% of people never even know that they are doing it.

That's why it mostly adds up to just a bunch of bellicose hot air from a bunch of people full of ill will against somebody...whether that somebody be Hillary, McCaine, Nader, Kucinich, or Obama.

And that's what's so ugly about the election campaign. And who panders to it? The mass media, both parties, and most of the politicians themselves. They who pander to it most shamelessly and blatantly are the worst of the lot.