Misogyny Insanity
Listening to the NPR tell me that groups of Hilary Clinton supporters are going to vote for McCain if Obama becomes the Democratic candidate. Exqueeze me? You think the media and the Democratic leadership have been unfair to Clinton because she’s a woman, so your response is to vote for yet another old white male who believes far less of what you believe than does Obama? This is a strategy? This is reasonable? This makes any sense whatsoever?
I don’t think Hilary should stop this madness because I’m a misogynist. I think Hilary should stop this madness because she’s encouraging the kind of insanity voiced by these supporters. She could easily have put an end to this weeks ago by simply saying, ok, it’s not going to happen this year, let’s all get behind Obama. She could have done that w/a great deal of dignity, she could have claimed victory in many ways, and she could have kicked McCain in the balls by helping to further unify the Democratic party. Instead, she fights on, encouraging extremism and division w/in her own party, and for what?
As the NPR story says, someone has to lose. If you want to say that Hilary lost because too many people just want to keep women down, well, ok. So does that mean Obama won because so many people want to lift black men up? Could it be Obama ran a better campaign? Could it be his speeches and positions on issues just resonated more with more voters? Could that even be possible?
Nah, No way. It’s all about woman-bashing. Absolutely.
Grrr.
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May 23rd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
I’ve lost all respect for Hillary (and Bill) for the way they’ve run this campaign.
May 27th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Not to burst your bubble here, but those in the know (yours truly) KNOWS what is really going on with the Democratic Party. Let’s think about what Hillary and Barak are really doing. Look at the scenario as follows…
April, May, June… you name the month… rolls around and Hillary drops out, giving all the appropriate accolades to our new nominee. That gives (do the math) months of Barak versus McCain. That means… equal time for Barak AND McCain.
With Hillary still in the race, the media, which loves to focus on the race and getting people out of it so they can focus on other important things during the summer months like shark attacks or missing interns, continues to cover Hillary AND Barak. Meanwhile, McCain is left swinging in the wind, unable to get the face time he needs for fundraising to get his message out. And Barak, who is really trying to win the Independent vote, gets the face time he really needs to win.
Barak, Hillary and Howy (imbroglio’s favorite in `04) all met about this months ago. I know it is hard to believe me, but I KNOW.
The longer this goes on, the better. Democrats will, for obvious reasons, make happy, happy, joy, joy when all is said and done, and the real work will have been to keep McCain out of the limelight. Success… thanks to Hillary.
Cha-ching!
May 31st, 2008 at 12:34 am
His name is spelled Barack. And I can’t believe I’m correcting this 6 months into the primary..
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Since when is spelling important on a blog? I’m just some schmuck who doesn’t know any better.