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Sunday, June 1, 2008 11:28 AM

New math, old Hillary

Anyone expecting Hillary to concede on Tuesday Night or Wednesday morning is hallucinating. The Clintons never admit or accept defeat. She will take her bogus claim of being robbed by the rules and bylaws commission to the convention. When her bogus appeal re FL and MI is rejected, she'll announce a 3rd party run for the presidency. Her goal is clearly to ensure an Obama defeat and 4 disastrous years of a McCain administration, after which she believes she'll be perceived as the new FDR- the only person qualified to save the nation.

Saturday, May 31, 2008 12:34 PM

Regarding the future

The DNC must abolish the current undemocratic system. The only way to choose a presidential nominee is to have all states vote on the same day, tally up all the votes, and the candidate with the plurality of votes becomes the nominee. The same system should apply to the general, but that would entail a constitutional amendment. The DNC could do it right now for the Democratic primaries.

Friday, May 30, 2008 06:31 PM

Ann Coulter

is a whore because he pretends to be a woman.

Friday, May 30, 2008 05:03 PM

More on sexism

No one has been more sexist towards Hillary Clinton than her husband. He has humiliated her throughout their marriage, often publicly, with his incessant carousing. She has tolerated sexism from her husband, probably because she felt that his coattails would get her the presidency, but is complaining now about sexism coming from the press and from the Obama camp? Maybe we discovered another reason for her defeat-hypocrisy.

Friday, May 30, 2008 04:46 PM

Re crying

"When Clinton speaks passionately, people say she's manipulative. Do you not find that just a tad sexist? Do you not believe that this perception is simply a result of the meme that women use their emotions to manipulate people?"

Yes, I do find this argument sexist. But it's interesting that after she..ok, didn't cry, only got emotional, women who didn't initially intend to vote for her ended up voting for her and allowed her to win narrowly a race she was about to lose and stay in the race. Here was an instance where she benefited from being a female. Obama and his campaign never implied in any way, imlicity or explicity that she shouldn't be the nominee because she is a woman, nor did the press. Yes there's plenty of sexism in our society, but she lost because of her Iraq vote, because she wasn't a good candidate, because her campaign was chaotic and badly managed and because of her very serious character flaws, which have nothing to do with her gender.

Friday, May 30, 2008 04:19 PM

Cry me a river

Hillary was trailing Obama by a double digit margin the night before the NH primaries. A lose in NH, a week after she was trounced in Iowa, would've knocked her out of the race. So she cries in public, and suddenly thousands of women who were going to vote for Obama change their vote and vote for Hillary because they identify with her tears. Hillary is very comfortable exploiting the sexism issue in a disgustingly cynical manner. This is the same candidate who said 5 months ago, when she thought her nomination was inevitable and a mere formality that "FL and MI won't count, since they broke the rules", and now she is suddenly the champion of "every vote must be counted, that's why I'm continuing my campaign", although in over 7 years in the US Senate, she refused to take up the task of electoral reform. She's supposed to be so smart, why is she so "surprised" that there's sexism in this country? She didn't know??? Obama ran despite the presence of deep racism in our society, yet he all but clinched the nomination. Sure, some voters didn't vote for her because she's female, but at least as many, and I suspect many, many more, didn't vote for Obama because he isn't Caucasian and because his middle name is Hussein. The only reason Hillary won't be the nominee is because she ran a lousy campaign and because enough people found her to be insincere, pandering, dishonest and wouldn't forgive her Iraq vote. Otherwise, despite her gender and the existence of sexism in our society, she would've won easily. It's high time for the USA to have a qualified female president, but Hillary didn't deserve to be the first one.

Friday, May 30, 2008 01:37 PM

Just when you thought

that Ferraro has crawled back under the rock from which she she came, she's seems to have slithered back into the limelight with another load of garbage. Apparently, for a BBQ racist like Ferraro, all the Clinton primary voters in states like W.Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio and many others who admitted they could never vote for a black candidate because they just don't like black people is not racism, but not voting for Hillary because of her Iraq war authorization vote and her general support of neoconservative militaristic and imperialistic foreign policy is sexism.

Friday, May 30, 2008 07:07 AM

Her parallel universe

The most important thing for Hillary now is to be able to go through the rest of her life proclaiming that she never lost the 2008 Democratic nomination, but was "pushed out". See, it was everybody else's fault- Obama, the rules committee, the DNC, Reid and Pelosi, who pushed her out of the race when she was winning it. She may never end her campaign. For all I know, she's be campaigning during Obama's inauguration and beyond, or running on a 3rd party ticket in November, but you know damn well that she will never admit she has lost the Democratic nomination since she was illegitimately prevented from becoming the nominee by dark anti-Clinton, anti-women forces.

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