Why is it that sexism (whether personally cited by Team=HRC IN RESPONSE to direct questions about it or, rarely, mentioned by her) is playing the victim card but crying racism, as BO, Team-Obama and his supporters do continually isn't playing the "victim card"?
As was pointed out in The Clinton Rules earlier, this continual high whine of racism gets smacked onto HRC for no rhyme or reason (eg, things are appalling in the South Side of Chicago, ergo HRC is a racist.)
She's being vilified to such an obnoxious extent that Obama's supporters hold her responsible for the most outrageous things (like "leaking" widely available inoffensive pix of Obama that hard RW bigots don't like -- which is her fault too, doncha know -- but even if she didn't, she's a monster anyway so whatever.)
Lynda Obst's anti-Hillary hit piece in HuffiPo, link cited above, tells off white women of her age group. They're deluded for supporting HRC who's not REALLY a feminist because she stayed with Bill after he got a hummer from a younger woman.
OMFG. As if there's anything "feminist" about leaving a longtime, apparently mutually supportive marriage rather than working out transitory problems. (Obst yanks out Repug-conjured debunked infidelities as "proof" that HRC is a perpetual victim.)
Because as we all know, marital infidelity only occurs rarely in our society and only among prominent Democrats and never involves married or single feminists, be they female or male, LGBT, younger, older or in between.
Thank the Great Soul Obst actually isn't the voice of a generation, just enough of a twit to think she is.
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"Hummer from a younger woman"--that has nice ring to it.
Posted by at March 16, 2008 05:39 AM"As we take decisive action, we will keep this in mind: When you are steering a car in a rough patch, one of the worst things you can do is overcorrect," the president said.
"That often results in losing control and can end up with the car in a ditch," Bush said. "
uh, we're already in the ditch, you moron, but at least your mega-millionaires buddies got their tax cuts and war profits from your war of aggression against Iraq
Posted by gay veteran at March 16, 2008 05:46 AMheckofa job Georgie (the anti-Midas):
Dollar's plunge pushes eurozone past US, Goldman Sachs says
FRANKFURT (AFP) — The dollar's plunge has made the eurozone the world's biggest economy by one measure and has underscored shifts that are reorienting the 15-nation bloc towards Asia, Russia and oil-rich Gulf states, analysts say.
"With the euro now trading around 1.56 against the dollar, the size of its annual output (at market value) has exceeded that of the United States," US investment bank Goldman Sachs estimated last week...
US retail sales fell by 0.6 percent in January as the celebrated US shopper bypassed malls in the face of higher unemployment and inflation and falling housing prices....
Posted by gay veteran at March 16, 2008 06:23 AMIt is pretty amazing. Every business that George has operated, he ran into the ground, then got bailed out by Daddy's friends. And despite his business history that was pretty clear, we ended up with this guy as potus.
It should not be a surprise to anyone that he took a country in fairly decent economic status and ran it into a complete financial and humanitarian disaster, that is his trademark touch.
We can't get rid of this guy fast enough. He's a complete disaster. The upside is that as we work to clean this up over the next ten years, the republicans will now have to campaign that they are not going to be another George Bush. He has razed the reagan republican majority.
I never thought the reagan republican majority was going to take the country in a good direction anyway, but George took it straight to hell.
Good riddance to this guy. All the progressives dems need to ask, no matter who they are running against, republicans or blue dog dems, is "are you better off than you were 8 years ago?" "is this country ready for a progressive change in leadership?"
Conservatives should be on the hotseat everywhere with the questions: Why did we invade Iraq? How are we getting out of Iraq? Are we safer for the military stupidity of the conservative republicans? How is that working out to have oil and energy schmucks in charge of the country?
Posted by angel at March 16, 2008 08:20 AMEllie,
My sister and I were talking about the different treatment "sexism" and "racism" are getting in public discourse at this time. She thinks racism and sexism are equally practiced but at this time, overt racism isn't acceptable (unless behind closed doors, where it's rampant - even ok'd by some here - re. Obama's minister preaching in his community). Hence, charges of gender bias is called whining even if justified.
Posted by Sharon at March 16, 2008 08:23 AMThe Obama whining about racism and the Clinton whining about sexism are equally annoying, and equally red herrings.
Posted by Shirin at March 16, 2008 02:43 PMActually, I don't recall Clinton ever "whining" about sexism. Maybe her supporters have, and feminists have, but her campaign? I can't think of and instance when she called something sexist.
Posted by iamcoyote at March 17, 2008 03:20 PM