Letters to the Editor
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Can't People Take a Joke!?
Women are either young nubile sexual beings or they're old biddies voting for Clinton.
HaHaHaHaHa!
Yeah, so where are black jokes? Or how about the latte sipping, elitist left bigot/hypocrite jokes? Now, that would be very funny!
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I usually love Opus and Breathed...BUT
I thought this was really a supposedly zany/truly over-the-top perception of Hilary voters.
But it truly struck me as unbalanced, unfair and unbalanced.
I don't think anyone would countenance a similar Opus dream/fear/perception against Obama voters as dark folk with big smiles enjoying watermelon nor against McCain voters as doddering VFW dudes and ignorant, rabid 'publicans.
Sorry, I believe this column was a cheap and unworthy shot.
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I'm trying really hard to get the point of this
The only conclusion my brain seems to accept is that Breathed is suggesting that Clinton supporter's are militant, ugly, middle-aged, fat feminists. What I can't understand is why he would do anything so insulting and hurtful to a number of his fans. Is there some other way of spinning this that I'm missing?
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"Afraid of strong women."
"It must be an inside joke. Inside some group that is still into this "men are afraid of strong woman" tripe."
Try Googling "afraid of strong women clinton"
I'm a confirmed feminist, I'm in favour of "strong women", but I still laughed a lot at this one.
People do get told that they're "afraid of strong women" when they simply don't like Mrs. Clinton, perhaps because she's very right-wing and suggests unbelievably stupid, "suck up to the voters" ideas like the gas tax holiday.
(And if you're a supporter of Mrs. Clinton and you have any sort of rational justification for the gas tax holiday, lay it on us. Or if you don't, how can you support a candidate who'd suggest something so dumb?)
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@TomRitchford
Considering Obama supported something so dumb "three times" in Illinois, he must be unbelievably stupid also. Oh, yeah, he learned from his stupidity...after the third time.
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Brilliant
Just f-ing brilliant. And anybody wondering why he would go there, just look at the reaction he got to the HC in the anxiety closet strip.
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@TomRitchford Gas Tax Holiday
Why I support it, even though I agree that it's not an economic fix.
Transferring a tax from the consumer to the oil companies is a good idea Because it makes people feel better. That's not a bad thing to do when people are feeling scared about the economy and about gas prices in particular. 5 cents a gallon may not seem like much, but around here (California) I go out of my way to shop at a station where I can get a 3 cent discount. I agree that this isn't a fix to our oil problems, and Clinton agrees as well. She has said repeatedly that we need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by changing our policies and our behavior. The tax holiday is the same kind of feel-good politics that is behind the tax-rebate, which is actually a lot worse for the economy than the tax holiday. The hope is that people will feel a bit richer and spend some money, which will reduce the impact of low consumer confidence. Obama's plan seems to be to use the gas tax holiday to criticize Clinton, but it stops there. He doesn't use this as a jumping board to talk about the complicated fuel consumption issues that face us, he doesn't propose any solutions. His campaign has devolved into "Criticize Clinton and make vague promises to change everything", but don't make any real promises because that will offend somebody.
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wow not controversial at all
Just saying, its only controversial if you live in a fantasy land completely cut off from reality. Its a joke, its kinda funny, with a hint of truth, both on how men view Hilary supporters and how *gasp* some of them do come across. Its not his job to be politically correct. He's being a journalist which means he's a bit of an objective observer of something in himself and others and putting it on display, he's not preaching gospel. Is it better that we push all the ideas and opinions that don't perfectly conform to someones vision of how things should be under the rug, or is it better to air them out have a laugh and talk about them? Stop being so scandalized by reality.
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Lincoln's Cabinet
"How about when Obama's in office? Will the Black Panthers and Louis Farrakhan be in charge?"
—tigercrane
I read this more as a rhetorical question than a charge/assertion, but think it's worth mentioning that Obama admires how Abe Lincoln chose a very non-partisan cabinet (explored in the book Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin).
I tend to think his cabinet would have a diversity of opinions/perspectives—not in the naughty centrist way of selling out principles for power, but in the constructive way of building bridges with Republicans, Independents, and socially conscious religious folk who can see common interests and want to fix our country...
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@jebldmm then that's literally voodoo economics
Transferring a tax from the consumer to the oil companies is a good idea Because it makes people feel better.
You're not really transferring the tax from the consumers to the oil companies, because the consumers will still be paying the same amount of money to fill their tanks as before.
Suppose each consumer pay G for a tank of gas, of which T is taxes. Hillary thinks that N consumers would each end up paying G - T for gas, and then the oil companies will make up the missing N T revenue by paying tax = N T.
But the amount of gas available in the summer is fixed, and the price of a tank of gas is going to reset itself back to its market equilibrium value of G. So the consumers will still be paying G for a tank of gas.
The oil companies will make N T extra revenue from the price re-equilibration, and that will go to pay the N T tax that Hillary wants to make them pay.
In the end, no real money has changed hands. It's all virtual and it all adds up to zero.
People can count. When they count that the same amount of money is exiting their pockets at the gas station as before, they'll know they've been had, and that's not going to do much for their confidence.
It's bound to work wonders for their cynicism, though.