Want a Pillow, Hillary?
Dear Hillary,
I just have to ask, what the hell is going on? Are you having a nervous breakdown? Has the campaign worn you down? Why do you keep making stupid mistakes and throwing away this election?
I have been a supporter of yours for years and I looked forward to the day when you would announce your campaign for the White House. I was excited to realize we might actually see a female president outside of shows like 24, Prison Break and Commander in Chief. I willingly campaigned for you and volunteered in many ways. I was on board. You had it won, in my opinion.
I won’t go into all the ways you have fucked up your campaign because well, that horse has been beaten, revived, beaten again, shocked back to life and bludgeoned to death. Living in Texas, I have not felt like I have played an active role in the primaries because most candidates have already been decided by Super Tuesday. I was excited to see that this year, Texas would have a voice.
As soon as it was realized how important our primary would end up being, the Obama campaign hit Texas. They booked the biggest stadium in Houston for a rally. I looked on your website to find out when you would be in Houston. The only thing there was that your husband was going to be in east Texas for early voting rallies. You finally showed up in Austin for the debate and well, you kinda sucked. You made a crazy comment about Xerox that fell flat. After the debate, you immediately ran back to Ohio to continue your campaign and give us the big middle finger here in Texas.
Last week, Saturday Night Live returned after the writer’s strike and Tina Fey gave you a huge endorsement. You should have taken that and run with it. Instead, you made a shrill reference to it at the debate in Ohio about how you always get asked the first question and Barack Obama gets asked if he wants a pillow. No one was pleased. Didn’t Tina Fey say that bitches get things done? Why didn’t you talk about getting things done? Opportunity lost.
Today, you were finally in Texas and Ellen had a satellite feed of both you and Obama for her show. She gave you a present. She asked you a question with a tremendous opportunity to speak to the women of Texas. When she asked you if you felt like you were being treated differently because you were a woman, you responded, “Well, no one has asked me if I needed an extra pillow.”
That just wasn’t funny. Why didn’t you take the opportunity to talk about the challenges women face in positions of power and how we have to work twice as hard to accomplish half as much? Why didn’t you talk about Gloria Steinem or even Benezir Bhutto, who wasn’t American but inspirational for women, and some of the accomplishments of women throughout history? You keep being given all these opportunities to win favor with the voters and you throw them away to be a whiney, complaining, dare I say it, bitch? Bitch might be the new black, but you’re not in season.
I guess you’ll be getting that pillow soon, and a long nap, because you obviously want a nap more than you want to win.
Sincerely,
A former fan and ex-supporter
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