A Lack of Taste (Typical of Obama’s Followers?)
By Joan Of Art on May 25, 2008 at 11:34 AM in Current Affairs
When I told my 86 year year old mother that Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky is calling for Obama signs and supporters to fill the crowds at the Park Ridge Memorial Day Parade on Monday May 26th, she was appalled.
“No,” she said. “Surely, not in Hillary’s hometown?”
“Yes, ” I told her. “It is in the worse possible taste.”
And my mother, who is known for telling it like it is said, “Not only is that in the worse possible taste, it is just plain mean.”
Mean, it is.
But then I have hardly experienced civility from many Obama supporters during this election. I was spit on in the course of my volunteer work in Portland, have been accused of being racist from long time friends because i support Hillary and am now getting anonymous hate mail about Hillary at my home address.
So much for a politics of transformation.
This Memorial Day, as we remember the many people who gave their lives for democracy, I renew my commitment to Hillary Clinton, who has given most of her life to public service, who truly believes in democracy and understands that democracy is not just a matter of rhetoric and fanciful thinking. It depends upon critical thinking, commitment to the needs of all Americans, an ability to ask hard questions and the willingness to do the work.
There is a wonderful group of Hillary supporters who are planning to spend their Memorial Day in Park Ridge. I am grateful that they will be raining a little Hillary sense on Jan Schakowsky’s tasteless and mean-spirited Obama parade.

















