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The commentary about Clinton being Obama's first pick for State has worked its way into a hysterical frenzy again thanks to the likes of Michelle Bernard, Chris Matthews, David Gregory, Rachel Maddow, Christopher Hitchens, David Broder, David Sirota, and all the pisants in the far left hemisphere of the Democratic Party.
Just when I had calmed down and started to work CONSTRUCTIVELY toward addressing media misogyny and sexism -- especially the nasty stuff from the primaries -- I am confronted yet again with the unending drivel that Hillary Clinton is some kind of demon who will, single-handedly, establish a new country, with new currency, in her own image, so that she can be president, thus crushing her nemesis: Barack Obama.
To quote another Clinton: "Give me a break."
These people have no lives. They apparently live and die on school-aged gossip and fear-mongering, much like insects living off the flesh of anything and everything they come into contact with.
We'd be much better off if these people acknowledge their simple fear of Hillary Clinton -- not because of the person or politician she is or has become, but because she is strong, competent, stands her ground, doesn't spend time under somebody's thumb, and most of all, isn't some femme fatale who believes all the crap about getting what she wants by playing cute, coy, sexy and stupid.
I pity the men who believe that any strong, outspoken, talented women are automatically out to castrate them. And I pity the women (like Bernard and so many others) who have so bought-into sexism they don't even recognize or accept it as such any more.
Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State might do more good than little minds realize and finally -- thankfully -- help move the antiquated practices of sexism/misogyny into the garbage bin once and for all so that we might really move into the 21st century!
