Letters to the Editor
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Salon could do better
Hillary's candidacy was not a surprise...people have been predicting it since she won her senate seat. It was to be historic: the first female presidential candidate.
Yet all we get from Salon is one article after another of anecdotal evidence on sexism and racism. Has no one thought to study, in a serious and systematic way, the issue of gender bias in the media and among the electorate during this election cycle...this HISTORIC election cycle? Cal Berkeley and Stanford are not far from the offices of Salon, yet if they are doing anything on this topic it sure seems to be a secret from you folks.
And no, a two-question survey doesn't really cut it. Nor do the myopic dinner-party musings of another 30-something e-journalist. Unless the goal is to just get people riled up.
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Amen!
Why is it that nobody tells a man "you're only voting for him because he's male"?
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women have actually said they are voting for hillary because she is a woman.
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dick dworkin
the fact that men have to prove themselves to women by being accomplished in some way in order to have sex and relationships and women are not required to perform in any comparable way.
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I think I get your drift. Women also have to prove themselves to men in order to be accepted by men. I am an Obama supporter, and I believe, that whiney women are not feminists. They will run to mommy, daddy or husband whenever someone slaps them for a fight they themselves provoked. Strong, honest women need not pander to men or women for that matter. They must stand on the courage of their convictions and withstand every wind that blows without stooping to dirty politics. That is an accomplishment that no one can take away from them.
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Hey, Hillary Supporters - Get a Clue
I shall look forward to the Salon article examining the continued support for Hillary Clinton, and the increasingly irrational, unhinged and racist tenor of Hillary supporters when faced with the fact that, for all intents and purposes, this race is over, but we all have to pretend it's not for the next month or so, in order not to offend these same bent Hillary supporters.
I suspect it would look something like the previous article my Ms. Traister in which she wasted 1500 words and 12 minutes of my life to say that she voted for Hillary because, um, she's a girl, just like Ms. Traister.
In the meantime, democrats with basic math proficiency and a lick of common sense are expected to sit idly by while camp Hillary throws a month worth of Rove-republican style cheap shots. Because otherwise, as we've just been instructed, we're sexist.
How do I know we're sexist? Well, I can't say exactly, but I just know.
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porcelain Not steaming pile of crap: The Bill issue
Rather than supposing Bill will be pulling the strings, I worry that he will be in the way. It'd be better if Hillary had a nice house husband like Thatcher did. It's already come up with this Columbian trade deal. Hillary is against it. Bill took big bucks to work for it. There's the appearance of a conflict of interest there.
Will Bill still travel, make speeches, and cut deals? What about the Foundation and the annonymous donors? I'm cool with the private money, but not in connection with the Presidency. It's one or the other.
Bill's history of impulse control is not reassuring either.
Please point me to where the role for Bill has been defined by the Hillary Campaign.
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Obama is a politician. What is so hard to understand?
@ AncientAssyrian
I have no idea why it's so hard for you Obama supporters to get it: he's a politician. You don't get to be a US Senator by being a nice, honest guy. Sorry, it just doesn't happen. You have to run campaigns, which are by their very nature dirty, cynical, craven.
To put yourself through a political campaign for the US Senate, and much worse, for President, you've got to want that power REAL BAD. You've got to be a megalomaniac. THEY ALL ARE, Hillary and McCain too. Come on, you're an adult, you've been around the block a few times, how can you buy Obama's saintly shtick?!
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"My last word (for now) on sexism" -- Joan Walsh
that was Wednesday April 9 when this had already been ordered, not so? truly Joan, I never expected something so duplicitous, from you.
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Tired
I am tired of Salon accusing male Obama supporters of sexism and misogyny. So I'm not reading Salon until after the Democratic convention. Enjoy having one less eyeball on your ads.
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Thanks.
Yes. There is definitely something creepy about how much people hate Hillary. I am an Obama supporter but I have done that "defending Hillary" thing several times over the past couple of weeks. I've actually lost one acquintance over it; because I won't be rabid and nasty about my hatred for her, I have been called "simple", "lacking in understanding" and in need of having my voter registration revoked! This from someone who, before the emergence of Obama on the scene, was as apolitical as anyone could be.
That Obama inspires people to care and get involved is wonderful--he has inspired me to be both precinct captain and state delegate at our convention--but the hatred for Hillary is visceral and wholly incomprehensible to me. And honestly, has me re-thinking my support. Yes, I'll go ahead and say it. I'm rethinking my support because I'm freaked out by my compatriots and wondering if I've been sucked into some strange Kool-aid drinking cult of personality.
That Hillary is a power hungry, savvy, and politically motivated is a fact, to be sure. But I would posit that anyone at that level of politics has to be pretty much those things in spades otherwise he or she would never make it that far. That Obama can couch it in charm and low-key charismam, and that the doesn't have decades of voting history in the Senate to hold against him, is his very good fortune. But that's what I'm starting to think it is...just good fortune. Not any genuine difference in the candidates stances or policies.
Thank you so much for vocalizing, kind of, this weird angst that Obama-maniacs are creating with their incessant, self-righteous Hillary-bashing.