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I agree with you. I never detected any sexism! It's all in Joan Walsh's mind!
I agree that there are some of the 18 million who are women and share Walsh's views and if they vote for McCain so be it. But I don't think there are that many. I have met many, in fact the great majority of women I know are just plain intelligent and rational. Not fanatical kooks!
Walsh says Clinton deserves respect. I'd like to know what for? She ran a disgraceful campaigh with the thugs, Woflson and Penn and Ickes and McCauliff. The were out-maneuvered every step of the way. Nobody had even heard of Obama. She didn't know how to manage her campaign and blew it. She doesn't have any accomplishments so she had to lie about Bosnia and Ireland. She used every "dirty" trick in Karl Rove's book. Her husband was an additional embarrassment. What a repulsive disgrace!
I really think women are a lot smarter than Walsh's small bigoted mind can deal with. I know there are many just like her, but 18 million, I doubt it.
Her racists are another story. Just cede them to McCain.
Lisa Caputo was on Dan Abrams tonight and finally, for the first time, quantified for me the extent that sexism played a role in the primary race. She was outraged that more press wasn't given to two men who displayed a sign at a Clinton rally that said something like "iron my shirts."
Jonathon Alter was on the panel with Lisa and was amazed that she was complaining about 2 dumb men in a population of over 300 million.
He couldn't comprehend that this kind of sexism represented by by these 2 guys is the core of the Clinton Campaign and is the reason that all the feminists are going to vote for McCain. This single act is the reason Joan Walsh writes her feminist articles against Obama on a daily basis.
What nerve he has to not realize that this action by these two men is what drives Hillary's 18 million to follow her blindly.
And I always thought that Jonathon Alter was a wise man. Goes to show you!
I hope that the lunatic, delusional, fanatic feminists led by Joan Walsh and also the racists that backed Clinton will vote for Nader or McCain, and I wish them well, hoping they become happier.
I for one, believe the democratic party will be better off without them.
"Remarkably, neither Mrs. Clinton nor Mr. McCain had the grace to offer a salute to Mr. Obama’s epochal political breakthrough, which reverberated so powerfully across the country and throughout the world. By being so small and ungenerous, they made him look taller. Their inability to pivot even briefly from partisan self-interest could not be a more telling symptom of the dysfunctional Washington culture Mr. Obama aspires to mend."
Frank Rich, NYT
I truly hope Hillary's lunatic, fanatical feminists and her racists vote for McCain. Hillary mismanaged a vile, in-the-gutter type campaign, rife with racism. It was a incomprehensible disgrace! She is the epitome, along with Karl Rove, of the old, anything-goes, in-your-face politics!
If you watch McCain's incoherent speeches and his misplaced smiles and his obvious lack of knowledge of what is really going on in the world, and his absolute history of support of W, I wish you people lots of luck.
And of course, you feminists are going to be delighted by his Supreme Court appointments!
I did not once ever detect any sexism in Obama's campaign.
"I'm a journalist; I'm going to be telling the truth, not shilling for any candidate."
You sure had me fooled!
"Are women a big problem for Obama? Maybe not. At least one poll shows rapid recent movement to Obama overall among Democrats, including women."
So be it! Of course there are always an insignificant few who have to protest forever against a non-existent sexism. I know racism is pernicious and pervasive, but sexism, I don't see it or feel it anywhere. These women have a delusional view and are obviously parinoid.
"I also can't help hoping that Obama supporters who denied Clinton faced sexism, but who are now outraged by the treatment of Michelle Obama, will have new insight into the dynamics of American media and politics, and new compassion for Clinton."
I have no new insight!
Fox News loved Clinton, as did Rush and David Brooks and Tucker Carlson and all of the far right. You thought Fox was OK and Rush was OK when they supported Clinton.
I am not outraged at the treatment of Michelle Obama by Fox News. I am never amazed or outraged at Fox News. I truly try to figure out what motivates the people who work there because they are so pro-Bush and racist and elitist! I don't think it is a very happy place.
I still feel HRC is a terrible person, and gender plays no part in that feeling because she thoroughly proved it by the vile, in-the-gutter campaign she ran. I am ready to vote for an intelligent, prudent person regardless of gender or race.
I think Hillary was treated much better than Obama by the press. This forthcoming race is going to be extremely vile! We are about to learn what racism is all about.
You know, maybe there was some sexism against HRC in the broadest sense but had no impact. The two guys who put up the sign, "Iron My Shirts!" were certainly disrespectful.
I thought maybe my definition of sexism perhaps changed over the years, so I looked it up.
"1: prejudice or discrimination based on sex; especially : discrimination against women2: behavior, conditions, or attitudes that foster stereotypes of social roles based on sex."
Keith Olberman is a sexist? C'mon, get real! HRC is a horrid human-being. Just because he criticized her and her gutter-ridden, vile campaign doesn't make him a sexist.