Letters to the Editor
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Me too
This democratic primary voter is still longing for someone else to get in the race too. Maybe one of the current candidates will grow on me, but I am not particularly hopeful.
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Oh Jesus
Surprise, surprise, surprise...On Drudge, now it's the rage on conservative talk radio.
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Not just Drudge
It's not just the Republicans who are eager to portray all female Democrats as too mannish and all male Democrats as too girly. Don't forget about Salon's efforts to support that meme just a few days ago.
May the best woman win, indeed.
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Right Wing Skullduggery
I'm very much in agreement. This is typical right wing skullduggery and needs to be challenged immediately and decisively. It's hard to believe this low level a "debate" is necessary but it could just as easily backfire on them.
It has amazed me to see how often subscribers claim Salon favors one candidate or another. I think they should stick around awhile longer, or simply pull up some past interviews with other candidates.
It is also a relief to see the focus starting to emerge on the Dem/GOP differences. If this election is allowed to go down the tubes the way it happened in '00 and '04 and the liberal media falls into the same traps it will be pathetic.
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The Joan Walsh Crap Production-Mill doubles its output...
Just a few weeks ago, Joan Walsh was happily running (false, phony) headlines about how "Ann Coulter called John Edwards a faggot."
When did Joan start to learn how to put such a fine point on the use of quotes out-of-context?
This entire piece could have been written by me, criticizing Joan Walsh, for her careless out-of-context quotation of Ann Coulter, simply by substituting Coulter's/John Edwards' names for those of Elizabeth Edwards/Hillary Clinton, and by substituting "faggot" for "man".
Have you no shame, Joan Walsh? Not the slightest sense of irony or hypocrisy in all of this? Un-freaking-believable.
And let's not be too harsh on Joan Walsh to the exclusion of the callow, opportunist, Mr. and Mrs. Edwards. Please, Democrats; please nominate Edwards. He is the guy we want to destroy in 2008.
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Elephantman
By "destroy" do you mean winning by electoral college again?
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Didn't call her a man, but it was still cheap shot
"because when I worked as a lawyer, I was the only woman in these rooms, too, and you want to reassure them you're as good as a man. And sometimes you feel you have to behave as a man and not talk about women's issues."
Unless in "those rooms" in her capacity as a lawyer why would she need to talk about women's issues unless it pertained to the case or project she was working on? And what does "act like a man" mean? Why couldn't she just act like a lawyer?
Certainly, Edwards did not call Hillary Clinton a man, but it was snarky. I don't think anyone can question Clinton's position on women's issues, however she's running a serious campaign for the Presidency at a very sobering and critical time in our nation's history. Women's issues, like some issues that are important to me personally, are not what this election should be overly concerned with. The current administration has put this country in a dire situation and clearly they plan to keep us there and let the next administration take the responsibility of cleaning up the mess. I'm not a huge Clinton fan, but she is correct, and smart, for keeping her campaign focused where it should be.
John Edwards, lagging in the polls and fundraising, is trying to separate himself from the pack with his "poverty tour." He seemed vaguely dismissive of Iraq when interviewed NPR. Elizabeth Edwards is trying to carve out another niche. Both Edwards seem a little too calculating and lawyerly for my taste.
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Joan Walsh...make the "SLUDGEREPORT"
Joan can play a very, very important role in the next Pres. election. She can be voice for reason and anti-smears.
Make a part of Salon called "The Sludge Report" (or something)
Make it very easy to click on to with bold headlines.
Have it accessible from Salon and lots of blogs.
Have a few of your journos (and me) to take up the top 10 right wing talk/druge "issues" of the day and post the truth.
And some Salon content to make it more than just politics.
DO IT! Salon has already been smeared and labeled by the right...make a new website (linked with Salon) that is easy to read...headlines...some entertainment...!
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'Women's Issues'
While my first though in considering saintzak's post was: "Hey! Are you saying women's issues aren't important?" I have to admit he has a point about Clinton.
Women's issues ARE important (and I say so as a feminist), however, when one speaks of 'women's issues' one is usually referring to social issues like reproductive and marriage rights. And to focus a campaign on those issues in this climate is not only ineffective, it's just plain dumb.
However, social issues are not the only issues women care about - which is something that ALL the candidates must appreciate if they want to win female votes (and considering women represent something like 54% of the voting population, that MIGHT just be important. I don't have a particular source for that percentage because it's something I've read over and over, but if you want to fact check, just google it).
According to a workshop I attened over the weekend at the annual NOW convention (which actually featured one of Clinton's campaign workers as a speaker), women voters's top three issues are: Iraq, Health Care, and Pay Equality/workplace related economic issues.
So essentially, women's issues are the COUNTRY's issues, not some elite set of separate concerns that only half the human race cares about...
Whether you like her or not, Clinton gets that. Edwards, apparently, doesn't. We'll see which strategy wins the primary.
Let the best man win....
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Short Term Memory?
Will the right also distort Michael Scherer's ridiculous article, in which he says, and I will quote here, "In the Democratic presidential pack, the leading man is a woman and the leading woman is a man." What will they make of that? Please. This is getting out of hand. Hillary Clinton is a woman. Obama Barack is a man. Mitt Romney is a robot. None are better suited to the Presidency than Al Gore.