Clinton no progressive.
I protested the forthcoming invasion of Iraq in the winter of 2002-2003 on the streets. Women with me received death threats. Clinton chose to betray at that moment with a craven, opportunistic vote to authorize force. Contrary to what she now says, it was crystal clear at that time that an invasion was going down. I'm not a starry-eyed pacificist- I supported the Afghanistan war.

I call B.S. on anyone who calls themselves a "progressive" and supports Clinton. The Iraq vote and her lies about opposing NAFTA demonstrate that she is almost entirely untrustworthy, and that she is a neo-con on foreign policy and an unrestricted free-trader. Her well-attested (Theda Skocpol is a reliable source) contempt for white working class voters, expressed in the conferences after the 1994 loss of Congress makes her attacks on Obama as an "elitist" look especially disingenuous. Her failure to get health care reform passed in the early 1990s, as well as her current predicament in the campaign (trailing in delegates and in the popular vote) show that she is not a particularly competent manager.

Clinton comes from money, and her most strongly demonstrated desire throughout life has been to be one of the "insiders" - close to power. Rose Law Firm, Walmart board, etc., etc. This desire trumps everything. Certainly Obama is also ambitious, but I haven't seen in his campaign that his ambition trumps everything - decency, the Democratic Party etc. His campaign has yet to use Whitewater, Travelgate, etc., against Clinton, while Clinton has not hesitated to meet with Richard Mellen Scaife, her former persecutor, in order to use Wright against Obama.

I have never voted for a candidate because of their gender or race, and I call B.S. on feminists who insist on voting for Hillary because she is a woman, and who label every attack on her as misogynist (some are, some aren't).

What I am pissed about, and what makes me unpleasant to Clinton supporters, is that she has revealed herself clearly in recent months as Lieberman II. Those of us among the despised Democratic "activists" who remember the insanity of the run-up to the Iraq war will not and should forgive Clinton's vote for it, until she actually demonstrates awareness that she made a mistake. Which she does not. Indeed, she threatens to nuke Iran, in a fit of pathetic overblown macho rhetoric that seems designed to appeal to the Limbaugh/Instapundit crowd more than Democratic primary voters.