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What this article shows is just whats wrong with feminism. Its obsession with male domination and the penis. There is an old maxim that great men are seldom good men. So the writer believes Martin Luther Kings or Bill Clinton's final legacy will be defined or besmirched by their sex lives. Is Thomas Jefferson's legacy defined by his sex life? Is Julius Caesers, Abraham Lincoln, Einstein or Franklin Roosevelt's? Will George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter's faithfulness to their wives make a bit of difference in how history judges them? But lets discuss Dr. King. I am an African American. Every living African American in this country has either lived with or had a relative with direct experience with Jim Crow. One of my earlier memories is being told to sit in a colored section of an all white movie theatre and I'm not fifty years old. Forty years after the landmark civil rights legislation of the 60's I can easily point to places in my hometown that had separate entrances based on race. Yet, the writer thinks I give a hoot about Martin Luther Kings sex life. Dr. King helped free millions of African Americans from a lifetime of half citizenship and inequality. His policies of non-violence when applied to Eastern Europe helped end communism yet the writer somehow thinks his legacy is besmirched because he was an adulterer. She idiotically thinks Coretta Scott King is somehow lessoned for choosing to stay with a great man instead of walking out and living with with a milk man. Coretta Scott King put up with death threats, bombings, racial slurs, widowhood as a young woman, raising four children as a single parent, and a lifetime of being in the public eye and she never stopped wanting to give more. Would the writer make that kind of sacrifice? As for Hillary Clinton, whether she wins the Presidency of the United States or not, whether you like her politics are not, she has been a groundbreaker. How easy it is to forget 8 years of a smear machine, of being called a murderer, a criminal, having a pundit class daily predict your arrest, having your child mocked, your friends investigated. How easy it is to overlook crazy people trying to fly an airplane in your bedroom window, and men outside your gates firing a machine gun at your husbands window. How easy it is to forget this is a woman who has had to come back from staggering defeats and criticism that would have broken must men ( ie her health care plan) and on top of that put up with a floozy and your husband embarrasing you in front of the whole wide world and yet through it all keep smiling and standing. A woman who won a Senate seat when people initially laughed and said it couldn't be done and yes a woman who has repeatedly saved her husband's career when it was endangered by his own recklessness. If Hillary Clinton doesn't live another day people should remember her not as a victim but for what she really is a tough as nails suvivor. She's had as many acts as Nixon, only unlike Tricky Dick she done it without a penis.
The Decider has already decided. He's going to attack Iran.
Georgie Geyer a center right journalist of impeccable reputation told us that Bush planned on fixing Iraq so his successor couldn’t leave! Its gonna happen.
For months we had to hear about Barry Bonds cheater. The man who allegedly took performance enhancing drugs to get an edge. The man whose records are tainted even though at the time he took the drugs, there was no policy against it in the MLB he was accused of and what he did was perfectly legal. The man who kept hitting home runs long after the alleged/unproven conduct stopped. He couldn't be forgiven he was a cheater. Bonds behavior damaged the integrity of the game. We have players in the NFL being suspended for conduct off the field that has nothing to do with football, but they deserve to be punished because their behavior affects the intergrity of the game. Now we have Super Bowl winning coach. He violated a league policy. Now its ok everybody does it. Its a tempest in a teapot. Its a stupid rule. Well a host of current and former players don't think so. They are saying - this kind of conduct could be the difference between a win and a loss. Belicheck should be held to the same standard as Barry Bonds. YOU see its really about the integrity of the game.
Actually, read the book, and it paints Anne Boleyn as, brilliant, ruthless, malicious, and exotic. In a world full of English redheads and blondes she was raven haired with black eyes and French tastes and mannerisms. She was also a minor aristocrat. Howard pedigree on one side from her mother but her dad was considered nouveau riche, one to two generations above trade. Cardinal Wolsey, broke up Anne's engagement to her first love to make her Henry's mistress and it embittered her against him and the Catholic church for the rest of her life. She is one of those rare women who changed the course of history as without her no Anglican church or Elizabeth I. As I was reading the book, I couldn’t help but have images of the Clinton administration, with its womanizing, clever President, tough, betrayed wife, scheming women on rope lines and disastrous finale. I just couldn’t make up my mind who was Anne in the end, Hillary or Monica?