Letters to the Editor
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@ Anonymous 03:26 PM
Your dependent clause with the independent clause of your first sentence makes no internal sense. Try revising.
Moreover, I have said many times here at this very site that I support Hillary Clinton because, among other reasons (one being her experience), I prefer her health care plan to Obama's. I have also repeatedly said that I believe she stands a better chance of beating McCain in November. Doloresflower, who is an Obama supporter posting in this very thread, and I have discussed this. Or, if you don't believe her, search my archive here at Salon.
Your dismissive attitude about women who support Senator Clinton says far more about you than it does about her supporters.
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More Obama bashing from Salon. What is new?
Salon is getting absolutely ridiculous in the extent they will go to to help Hillary win.
To twist Obama's comments into a PMS line is idotic at best. Hillary is 60 years old. Periods are not the reasons for her evil streak.
Some have pointed to her being referred to as "the Bitch" as sexist. I disagree. Hillary is NOT called a bitch because she is female. She is called that because of her actions. Would they call a man that? No, but I don't see anyone calling Hillary a dick, a prick, or a faggot either. Is it sexist to call men these?
Hillary is running a campaign based on lies, slander, misdirection and racism. She is doing this against a DEMOCRAT. She is lifting her talking points from John McCain. Maybe Obama should cry some and complain that the old people are ganging up on him.
Hillary has used the fact that she is female for political advantage and used the fact that Obama is black for political advantage. Her strategy (all but confirmed by her own staff) is to paint Obama as "the Black candidate". Obama, of course, can't respond to this outrage without compounding the problem and helping the slimeball (I am sure that Hillary's Flying Monkeys™ will find some sexist connotation to even that term) marginalize him.
Let the superdelegates hand it to Bill's wife. Let the ABH (Anyone But Hillary) movement begin. After years of questioning how Americans could be so stupid as to fall for the Atwater/Rove smear campaigns, Salon and the flying monkeys are actually defending Hillary for swiftboating a fellow democrat. John McCain has veered right to secure the nomination, but in the long run, he is far less scary than a President Hillary would be. Unlike her, he is at least a tiny step up from Bush.
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@ Anonymous 03:34 PM
Not if I had been flirting like crazy with him all along.
Please understand that I am not saying he wasn't inappropriate, but rather I am saying it just wasn't sexual harrassment. If you start charging men with sexual harrassment without a complaintant, then you eliminate the advantages to golddiggers everywhere. I, for one, would not want to do that. Every girl has to make her way in this sexist world as best she can.
I will puzzle you some more (thankfully, this is not hard): Bill Clinton is certainly a sort of misognist, although an unconscious one. However, he is not sexist in the garden variety sense.
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Sexist!
Obama is a sexist! Sexism! Sex, Gender Sexist! Obama hates all women! He doesn't believe in strong women! Sexist! His wife married a sexist! Everyone knows that the very mention of the direction "down" is sexist. "Down" is a masculine construct used to keep women "down" for years. The very idea that he would be referring to the polls is sexist. Sexist!
There, are you happy Katharine? Are you done painting Hillary as a constant victim? thanks.
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@ maureenodonnell
For an interesting book about Obama may I refer you to Shelby Steele's A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win. Also, my I suggest that the women in his life are only part of the story. Over and over we elect presidents who have father issues -- like our current one for instance.
A bit of a caution about Steele. He is hardly a liberal. I suspect many Republicans are just eating up his book and using its premise to plot their stategy.
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Hakim Kutta, your lyrical language has ovewhelned ne so much that I could not log off
because I was near swooning to the power of such peerless prose and its prelapsarian concepts,innocent world not ruled by gold and guns, a veritable Garden of Eden. I did not like the idea of kicking a dog but your exotic name and transcendent treatise is reminscent of "The Perfumed Garden", an Indian book of erotica, which has me all-of-a-doodah. Would it be possible (se puede) to touch the hem of the Great One's garment as I'm quite sure that you are close to him? I'll bring my smelling-salts, I promise you, and I'll learn as much about the Charismatic Movement as I can before venturing into such a hallowed space. I don't suppose you're one of his speech-writers, Hakim, although all of the orotundity of your language has that transcndent quality that's so adorable. It's time for me to consider sleeping now but your prose-poem will give me happy dreams of a world without gold and all of us running through meadows, wild and free with the spices of Arabia wafting on the gentle breezes. There must be no kicking of dogs, Hakim, and your mention of powerful animals is a little unnerving too. I hope you don't mean cougars, panthers or cheetahs as they're not too friendly to humans.
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Dmagnificent
Wow, Dmagnificent, time to take your meds.
Oh, what was I thinking, of course any site that dares allow posters who are supportive of Clinton to post, is pro-Clinton. Wow, the logic here. God forbid there be more than one opinion.
No, Salon needs to be like all the other fascist sites that don't allow pro-Clinton posters, just so Obama supporters can feel they are the chosen and ONLY voice of the new totalitarian dream.
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@xanadu,
if you're against totalitarianism, why do you support wage garnishment to enforce mandatory purchase of insurance?
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the fonda link
Obama made Jane say what Hillary is. An outrage! What a cheap......stunt.