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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
According to Caroline Kennedy, "I have never had someone inspire me the way people tell me my father inspired them, but I do now: Barack Obama.”
I'm really getting tired of these JFK/Obama analogies. If I remeber correctly, JFK was a war hero who served seven years as a congressman, seven years as a senator, ran to the right of Nixon, cut taxes dramatically once in office and was so anti-communist, he conspired with the CIA to invade Cuba. So please, Caroline, tell me again, what do JFK and Obama have in common?
dataguyx,
that's good to know. But if you want Obama to win, take an index card and write on it "be respectful of women" and carry it around with you from now until election day. Maybe carry it around after election day as well.
Why? Because women are 60% of Democratic voters and we need them to win.
Why? A better reason--because women deserve respect. Women who are your age, chances are they have gone through some discrimination in their lifetimes from lack of promotion at work, to not being paid the same as their male coworkers. When you make remarks about big girl panties, although you are angry at a particular group of women (who may be McCain lovers to begin with if what some are saying is true...) it reminds every woman--myself included-- of the men who have made similar, gender-insensitive remarks. It's not helping.
The Democratic Party cannot win without the hearts and the minds of women. Bottom line. And there are more women in the party than men--please write that index card & keep it on your person at all times. It could make a difference in helping Obama to win.
And it's the least you can do for our party.
I hope you had a nice summer and are fresh and ready to spin in the upcoming months. I'm looking forward to reading your well-written talking points. It's a nice change from the regular writers on Salon's letters pages.
You really do need to chill, much like these PUMAs, you just fan the flames, of ridiculous recriminating blames, and back and forth games of ugly ill will.
Respect is not something that people have. It is something that is earned. Once gone, it is lost forever.
That's where the Hillary dead enders are at now. They have lost all claims to respect. They got their month of mourning, and we were all respectful of them during that time. They got Barack on bended knee, begging for their vote. It sickened me to see it, but I understood the need.
But no, none of this converted the Hillary dead enders from selfish children to adults.
So, if we lose the 12-13 of them that still exist, I have no problem.
Because I have no problem with women. I'm married to one, have 2 as daughters.
I will not extend my respect to those that have, by willful stupidity, permanently branded themselves as idiots. NA GA DA IT.
You want respect, gain it.
PUMAbots vs. OBAMAbots
Who'll be the last fool grandstanding...bein' a 24 hour troll must be richly demanding.
You're exactly right jpetty. African-American delegates and voters are accustomed to "forgiving and forgetting," "getting over it," "sucking it up," and "getting with the program." They've done it for years within the Democratic Party. No voting bloc is more loyal to the party!! They voted 90% for Kerry, Gore, and Bill Clinton...and did so without reservation.
But I'm telling you...not this time!!! IF this subtle plot by the Hillary forces succeeds in undermining Obama's chances...as James Baldwin said, "No more water, the FIRE next time!!!
Check this out
Obama's gonna win.
Please do listen to doloresflowers, et al.
You've got a problem, and a bit of self-reflection would do you well, and you might start by recognizing that such as Will Bower and Larry Johnson are *NOT* women.
In short, put a rest to the gender specific claptrap. You're an embarrasment, and you're not helping the cause.
Subtle plot? That would be the plot where Hillary Clinton throws all of her support to Obama and gives a rousing speech telling everybody to vote for him? And Bill Clinton stays out of the limelight as much as possible because he can't get over the hurt of being called a racist by Obama's surrogates? I have to give it to the Clinton's. When they are subtle, they are VERY subtle.
Really jeb, remind me, what WAS Bill's big importance to Hillary's presidential race, it was she who was running, not Bill's Ex-president's face.
You have still got it - funny and to the point. Thank you for your participation. It is a welcome change from the general humorlessness in these posts.
I mean he is the nominee right? I know he probably wants to make a grand entrance, but in the interest of party unity, I think it would have made sense for him to be there. He's campaigning in Montana when all of the action is in Denver, I don't get it.
thinks that if he had a problem with one specific black person and thus were to call him a "nigger" it would be okay since that guy hadn't earned his respect. Hell he wouldn't call his black friends "nigger". I love this logic. You apparantly can't see that your misogynist "suck on this" creepy panties-fetishist attitude doesn't only demean and disrespect the 100 or so actual PUMAs out there you say it's aimed at. It's a disgusting attitude to women in general and amazingly you have a couple daughters and don't know better? Gross...
Virtue, I was a JFK supporter and think perhaps I can answer your question. JFK's nomination and election came about through his vision and his ability to inspire us. You name his credentials, but believe me they weren't touted when he was running for President. He was "too young" had no "tenure" and perhaps even worse, was Catholic. It was the first presidency I was old enough (or cared enough) to follow, and I have to say that those credentials you lay at his feet, were like tiny icons on the screen. It was HIM, and his ability to make us individually wish to reach out and improve ourselves and this nation, that holds our hearts even today. Caroline has it exactly right. Not since JFK and Martin Luther King have I felt such hope for my country. Until Obama.
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