Letters to the Editor
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Rigth ON
Camille,
For the first time I actually read through your entire article. As a feminist, I agree Hillary is no feminist. Obama and his wife Michelle are the feminists in this presidential race.
I have supported Obama from the beginning, but in the beginning I still has a lot of respect for Hillary. As this campaign has proceeded, my respect for Hillary has diminished. Hillary's campaign has continued to insert the gender issue into this campaign and at the same time baits Obama's campaign on race issues. Frankly I think she makes all women look bad.
Women if you want to have power, or be treated as equals, you have to know how to play with the boys, but no whining or being bullies like them.
I find that in most movies from the 30s and 40s women were portrayed an much stronger,independent individuals. NO females playing victims in those movies. Some how the 50s killed that off. Then early 60s turned females into vulnerable sex pots. We had a reprieve for a while, but its seems to all be coming back.
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Why does Camille Paglia seem so like the washed-up actress Norma Desmond in that bleak film "Sunset Boulevard"?
Norma Desmond is supposed to be a charcter based on the real-life actress Gloria Swanson. It's a cruel fable of grandiose folly and delusion. Norma has convinced herself thatyhe world still wants her and that she can make a come-back on the screen but as the screen-writer Joe Gillis realises "The audience left twenty years ago. Camille Paglia's hatred for Hillary Clinton is searing and livid. It could have something to do with the fact that Camille and Hillary were born in the same year. Life is so unfair!
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clinton plan
Lie, cheat, slander and steal, sounds like a plan to me.
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@ studio2054b: A Little Threatened, No?
We know that old women are Clinton’s demographic.
Too bad Obama and his followers can't seem to figure out why!
it’s not so much racism and as competing identity politics: victim-status-envy. Old women who are so close to vindication they can taste it, flush with scorned entitlement as they feel their chances slipping away.
Sounds precisely like Barack Obama. And given his "demographic," I'd say it's this "entitlement" attitude that will sink him with pragmatic voters -- not the intellectuals, the liberal elite, or the white-collar tech geeks.
It’s no accident that Clinton’s campaign has also exploited tensions between blacks and Latinos.
Actually, Barack Obama's campaign started using "racial" politics way back in January. How quickly the ADHD generation forgets -- but that's what Obama counts on.
The significance of age here is their direct acquaintance with the past and the compromised place of both women and blacks, the coming of age in a period of transition for both groups.
This is precisely why Barack Obama will never connect with core Democratic voters (or core Republican voters, for that matter). In an insistence on playing above or beyond the playing field, as this language suggests, the attitude continues to show absolute hysterical fear over the world as it is in the here and now and an inability to deal with it on its own terms.
Obama is where he is because he’s tapping into a desire for decency.
Fluff is actually a more accurate and honest description.
Clinton is where she is because in the entitlement of her and her followers, they are simply unaware of their own haggery: fair is foul, and foul is fair.
Thanks for reminding us once again in embarrassing rejoinders why intelligent women don't trust you. In keeping with your intellectual entitlement and airy ideals of perfection, personified in Barack Obama, I'm sure you'll be quite happy in Elysium after November.
What I’m really trying to say is that Geraldine Ferraro would not be in the trouble she’s in if she weren’t an old woman.
Thanks for your ever-so-enlightened views on age. Fortunately, Geraldine Ferraro (none of us "old" women, really) care! We have done it all, heard it all, been through it all. In the great scheme of life and this political season, your views represent nothing more than that most romantic: pusillanimous pismire.
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Time clearly won in Pagilia's case.
I'm not one to knock unattractive women for their looks typically, but holy moly. Pagila would frighten off an entire city of children.
Back to when Salon is going to finally get rid of this babbling battle-axe.
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@Claddagh
Thank you for your post, perhaps the sanest analysis of Obama and his fans I've read on this site. I agree with every word you said.
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@ljwalker
Actually, Barack Obama's campaign started using "racial" politics way back in January. How quickly the ADHD generation forgets -- but that's what Obama counts on.
Well he can count on a landslide defeat if we get stuck with him. It was obviously already the given his decided lack of popularity with all but AA and some uber-liberals in college towns.
But I know he's taken his race-baiting just a little too far by now. I see signs of people being as disgusted as I am everywhere. Most people thought he was an empty-suit anyway. Now they think he's a race-baiting empty suit.
In the end he's going to be the worst thing that ever happened to black America. Second worst thing if Al Sharpton delivers on his riot-inciting threats.
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Correction:
Actually, Barack Obama's campaign started using "racial" politics way back in January. How quickly the ADHD generation forgets -- but that's what Obama counts on.
Fluff and race-baiting that would be. He used his fluff to appeal to the anti-war one-note Johnny's determined to "punish" Hill, and he pandered to the patent racism of blacks for the rest.
And now he's pissed off everyone else in America.
Big-time in my case.
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Poor Shawn
Meds wearing off? The support my entire extended family has for Obama is dependent on nothing other than what the man has said and done. We're not media dupes. We're not sexist pigs. That would be a tough one for my wife, mother, two daughters, three aunts, et al. Jeez. Grow up. Look at the numbers. The approach to Florida and Michigan tells me all I need to know about Hillary's ethics. Utter bulspitzer.