To Support or Not to Support? That is the Question.

In the car on the way to a work-gig, my business partner Kate and I got into a productive discussion about whether or not to support Hillary. It's a bigger question than any of us would like to admit. Where we agreed, was that all of our lives we'd been waiting for a woman to run. And here she is and she's pretty darn qualified. But would we support Hillary if she were a man? As far as I can tell, that's sort of an unfair question. Women don't get to be were Hillary is by being like women, that's for sure. But you can't unlearn all the lessons in life that being a woman teaches you and that's a good thing for women who climb the ranks of men. I like Obama's idealism because at heart that's what I am, but I recognize the need now, perhaps more than ever, for a realist in office. Will we overcome the myriad of obstacles set before us by trading one kind of idealism for another? I'm not sure.
So, all this is to say that I'm going to get my Hillary Clinton for president bumper sticker and go the distance with her. She may not win, but that wouldn't be as surprising as if she did. What I believe is that if she won, she'd do very good things. She'd support universal preschool, she'd support a woman's right to health care, and she'd pull together the smartest minds to figure out a way to get out of this crisis in the mid-east. I think we need a woman in the White House. Right now a woman is running and I think I would regret it if I didn't support her.