From the convention floor after Hillary's speech, Anne Price-Mills, an African-American woman and a delegate for Clinton, summed up why she's still in Hill's camp and uncommitted to Obama (with emphasis):
Tell me, why is this so important to you? What does this moment mean to you?
ANNE PRICE-MILLS, HILLARY CLINTON SUPPORTER: Hillary Clinton proved to me tonight that she would have made an excellent president. She was presidential tonight. She's the evidence that women have come so far and to let gender be a hindrance, to let a phenomenal, an intelligent, a powerful, a moving, a motivating person not move us into the next generation, not move us into the future that we deserve, not move us into the green economy that we deserve, not being able to address the concerns that we deserve, and now everybody just want us to suddenly shift.
You just saw it yourselves. You saw it yourself; you know that was a presidential speech. You know it. When you guys look back at the end of this week and you start to tear apart the speeches and you will, you know that was a presidential speech.
She did everything for Obama that she was supposed to do. Now it's time for him to step up and do what he's supposed to do.
MALVEAUX: Will you vote for her when you cast your votes later in the week?
PRICE-MILLS: I was selected to come here as a delegate for Clinton. I will vote for Clinton.
You ask me about my personal vote in November? Obama has two months. I won't vote for McCain. But he has to get me there and I haven't connected with him. Experience speaks to me. I ask everybody all the time, I said, would you take us to heal us? Would you take somebody straight out of Harvard, even if they had the education, and put them as a CEO in the company?
MALVEAUX: Tell me the kind of connection you felt with Hillary Clinton.
PRICE-MILLS: I see in Hillary, I saw in Hillary what my potential future could be. I saw more than just dreams. I saw things that could be reality.
In her eyes and in her words, I could envision the reality of knowing that we can actually have green jobs instead of talks. That we could have the image that we once have of a United States that was respected and that went out and did the jobs that we're supposed to do on the global level. I saw the country that we strived to be and wanted to be and she could have made it happen.
MALVEAUX: Will you cast that vote for him in November? Will you cast your vote for Barack Obama in November or will you vote for McCain or not vote at all?
PRICE-MILLS: I will not vote for McCain. I will not vote for McCain. But for the first time since I was 18, and that's been a long time, I may be faced with something I don't want to have to deal with.
I've never not voted. I am one of the strongest Democrats I know. I call up all my family and say, Carl, you need to get out the house, I don't care how much rain is pouring down. I don't what's going on in your schedule, you need to vote.
For the first time I'm faced with not being a person who calls them and says go vote. They may have to call me and tell me and remind me of how hard and how long we strived to get to the right to vote, the right to be here.
Experience counts. I don't care what anybody told you. And his resume is just --
Anne Price-Mills never filled in the blank about Obama's résumé but I can guess. It's lacking.
Obama isn't the best choice for the Democratic presidential nominee at this time in history. Hillary is.
With the highest respect for Hillary's call for unity, I must be true to myself. I own my vote and it must be earned. I will not reward a party that has betrayed Clinton Democrats, turned a blind eye to sexism, and allowed a rookie U.S. senator with a thin résumé to usurp the party because of why? Money?! Sexism? Clinton-hatred? The party has disgracefully lost its way especially in taking action on women's rights.
I have previously written:
I can't speak for others but my opposition is:
about protesting a party that's sexist, corrupt, and out of touch
about throwing out party leadership by abstaining from their Anointed One
about a nomination process that used undemocratic means, i.e., caucuses, that made the Democratic party's name a joke
about the injustice of punishing MI and FL but giving NH, IA, and SC waivers when those states also violated the Rulz
about the dismissal of women and the working class by claiming we have no other political option other than voting Democratic
about the DNC rigging the nomination to wrangle their cash cow
about nominating the least qualified candidate of the field
about Obama's complicity in a dirty-tricks campaign of false racial smears, sexism, and okey doke politics
about manipulating the
presspropaganda machine to favor The Oneabout embracing homophobes and playing the LGBT community for suckers
about voting for "the lesser of two evils" that insidiously enables evil, hypocrisy, and complacency
about rejecting the extortion of my vote through intimidation and fear-mongering
about protesting the abandonment of constitutional principles for political capital.
I'm probably forgetting other important motives, but in short, I am fed up and revolting against corruption, sexism, exploitation of racial tensions, homophobia, and the plutocracy of both parties.
I hold Howard Dean, the biased anti-Clinton DNC, and the barking mad Obama wingnuts responsible for discrediting the Democratic party that's supposed to represent liberal principles and to stand up for democratic policies.
The party should count its lucky stars that I plan to vote for down-ticket Democrats. But...
No way, no how, no Obama.
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