Letters to the Editor
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Move over Billary!
I completely agree with the earlier comment here that Bill and Hillary had their chance and they blew it!
Oh, and money, not pussy makes the world go 'round: essentially the Lewinsky affair led to Al Gore being tainted having been Bill's VP which led to Gore not being able to kick Bush's imbicile ass.
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Chrissy Matthews
Chrissy Matthews, the liberal poser, is showing once again what an idiot he is. Chrissy is a Clinton-hater and suck-up to the Republican cause (he wrote a fawning book of Dick Nixon). He presents himself to his clueless audience as some kind of political sage. This is the maggot who led the drumbeat for impeachment over Bill Clinton's infidelities. During this time, Chrissy liked to chum on his show with dirty trickser, Lucianne Goldberg and America's favorite Nazi, Ann Coulter.
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Oops!
I meant: "Pussy, not money makes the world go 'round." Oops.
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Is it wrong to vote for Clinton as a woman?
The previous poster who said that the Clinton campaign is a black eye for feminism makes some excellent points. I think there is a case that Clinton can set back feminism by turning it into a brand and watering it down. It is one thing to stand for all the tenets of feminism, which I don't think Clinton has done, and it's another to wear it as a lapel pin (see Fox and the flag).
But to be fair, Clinton is not any more dubious than her only remaining rival. Obama has backed industry repeatedly: helping kill an amendment to the bankruptcy bill that would have limited credit card rates at 30 percent; supporting liquid coal in the Senate; voting for the appalling 2005 energy bill; promising industry he would water down a House bill that would charge mining corporations for exploiting resources under public land. One wonders exactly what kind of change Obama brings other than his own imputable birth characteristics.
But the purpose of my email is to ask people to think before they blame voters for voting on gender or race.
It is one thing for a candidate or the media to argue for support based on such characteristics, and quite another for a voter to use that information for their own purposes.
How people choose to vote is their domain.
I am equal opportunity in this view. I don't blame Nader voters for their personal choice in the voting booth, because it is none of my business. And I can certainly understand a female or black voter, living in a white-male world, coming to the conclusion that a woman or a black is less likely to fuck them over.
Some Americans have had consistent bad experiences that ran along the lines of race and gender (not just rape, violence, psychological abuse, etc., but also constant, low-level discrimination that white men can't fully understand, let alone notice). For those Americans, seeking out a woman or a brother might have proven a good strategy over the years.
And in truth, it would be hard for Clinton to compromise on reproductive rights. It would be hard for Obama to sign a "tough on crime" bill that put more young blacks in jail.
For some the bar is low -- but realistic.
[NOTE: I do not endorse voting on these characteristics. I think the fact that it is reasonable for people to do so is an indictment of our public sphere. The bar is far too low.]
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Yes we can change the conversation
Our media is driven by diversity...someone must win and loose...Chris called NH primary a basketball game...Hillary won the game because she likes to play games. Let's not turn this most important event in our history into superball ...let's stay focused on the issue of electing a visionary leader that can set the new agenda. Obama is that leader.
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Same Story, Different Year.
Go back to 2000, and look at the coverage George W. Bush received after losing big to John McCain in New Hampshire. It was exactly the same. Heck, go back to McCarthy beating LBJ in '68.
The point being, when a seemingly inevitable frontrunner stumbles badly, the media types pounce. It's an obvious story. That's how the political game has always been played.
Senator Clinton was never singled out because she was a woman. (Although I'm sure she's ecstatic that many women seem to think so.) She was singled out because she was the inevitability candidate, a media portrayal she had zero interest in challenging when it held up for over a year.
Speaking as a man who thought -- hoped, even, although I guess the word coming down these days is that we're not meant to hope -- we were further along than this, I find it all quite dismaying. Orc awards all around.
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Exactly how I feel
When Hillary Clinton showed emotion explaining why she was running for president, I knew exactly what she was feeling. The worst thing that has happened during the past seven years was not 9/11; but the steady, unrelenting erosion of all this country once claimed to stand for, since that day. When she said she was passionate about returning America to what it once was I understood what she meant. (I don't necessarily trust her to be the one to do that, though.)
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The Key Moment for Me
I was offended by Obama's and Edwards' demeanor toward Senator Clinton at the Saturday night debate, found Obama's "you're likable enough" comment extraordinarily condescending and beneath him, and was simply appalled at the pundits' gleeful piling on as they became certain that Clinton was going to lose. But believe it or not, the moment that I turned to my husband and said, "Gee, I wish I were registered in New Hampshire so I could vote for Hillary on Tuesday" was when I heard that Pervez Musharraf said that Benzair Bhutto was responsible for her own assassination.
It didn't matter whether we were talking about events in Manchester, New Hampshire, Washington, D.C. or Islamabad — THAT was when I knew I'd had it with the boys.
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Time for the Honest Catholic to join FOX NOISE NUTWORK
SCAM HANITTY, WACKO BILLO GOOD IRISH LITTLE BOYS, MUST BE IRISH CHRIS IDOLS.CHRIS STOP WORSHIPING FALSE IDOLS. TIME TO CALL ROGER ASSILES FOR A SPOT AFTER SCAM. PISS MATHEWS PLAYS SOFTBALL, HIS FIRST GUEST IS BUSH LIMBAUGH, NEXT WEEK IT WILL BE LITTLE RUSS RUSSERT, TOPIC "HE LOVED BIG RUSS AND WILL TALK ABOUT MRS. BIG RUSS AND HOW SHE WAS LIKE THAT HILLARY" HE WILL ALSO HAVE MRS. ALAN GREENSPAN TO TALK ABOUT THE BILL BENNETT AND THE AGE OF JOHN MCCAIN AND BILLS COMMENT THAT JOHN CAN'T COMB HIS HAIR.