ITW

“How did you manage to miss that part?  That’s like finding a feather on the turkey and missing the drumstick!

Maybe because I’m a McCain supporter?

As an aside, this site is like the Northeast power grid… on the verge of collapse.  no more “reply” buttons, the “comment title” does not work, and only 1/4 of my messages are (eventually) published. 

Maybe it’s time to find a new site.

“Inherit The Wind, June 11 at 6:10 pm “

We see the world through different glasses.  I disagree with just about every scintilla of your thought process. That says nothing about your correctness or lack of it, but when a “great speech” has 23 variations of the word “I” used through out, I do question your judgement.

As Obama Turns—
It’s happeneing—little by little
more everyday—
You won’t recognize him by the end of this general
election
CHANGE is right—change from what he said yesterday
and the day before—
But I forgot—he never did say exactly what—“Change”
really meant-

Anyone listening to Hillary and other women bemoaning their lack of progress or inability to cross barriers would think that they are a miserably oppressed group, excluded from board rooms and political assemblies, third class citizens discriminated against in the workplace and the payroll dept.  I listened to news media all morning wax poetic about the women’s movement and Hillary’s emblematic leadership there.  “Why didn’t she do this earlier?”

But of course Obama can’t respond in kind without stirring up issues of negativity and grievance. 

I regarded her speech as narcissistic and political, a distorted view of her candidacy as it relates to historical events and current developments.  Hillary has created deep divisions that served her ambitions, and I hope that doesn’t bode ill for the November election.  This mess is really her doing; her job is to clean it up.

ITW Please don’t refer to others as uninformed or idiots when making statements like this:

“There is no POSSIBLE way Hillary Clinton could have been MORE definitive in how she through her complete and total support behind Barack Obama.”

There is a “way” she could have been more “definitive” in her support, she could have released her delegates and told them to support Obama.

Frankly, I do not believe we have a candidate running who is worth more than a half-cup of dog-shit, BUT Hill is the lowest, filthiest entity in my life time to achieve the adoration she has from her supporters. Even Pat Buchanan, Richard Nixon, and LBJ pale in comparison.

Not to be all “omg hillary clinton post, let me plug my feminist event!” but it is an interesting time to be a woman in the United States and Living Liberally is hosting an evening of political comedy with Planned Parenthood this Wednesday.  If you’re in the New York area, you should stop by (6:30 for Happy Hour, 7:30 for the comedy) and mingle with like-minded people while seeing some good comedy.  We’re at the Tank (279 Church Street, btwn Franklin & White, below Canal).  Visit http://www.laughingliberally.com for more info.

I have to admit that I only heard sound bites from Hillary’s speech, you know the bit that included 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling statement.  I like to refer to a New York Times article that reveals how the Clinton marriage has so influenced our political arena for the past twenty years.  The Times article mentions how Bill Clinton begins to exert more influence on his wife’s campaign. At one point in a playful mood, Bill has Gov. Rendell reporting the PA results county-by-county, in order to highlight that he was more successful than she for getting votes.  I am sure that this same exercise could have been done in Ohio, Texas, West Virginia and Kentucky.  No reporter, not even those who were against her, ever took into consideration that Hillary was not running alone.  Bill’s involvement resulted in dragging her kicking and screaming into the win column.  I’m sure she would love to have accomplished those 18 million votes on her own, but I can assure you that a large percentage of them were not woman putting cracks in the so-called glass ceiling.  They were men voting for Bill’s wife.  A wife that they surely felt he could keep in line.  Why hasn’t the press acknowledged this reality?  Why wasn’t Bill’s contribution included in the parsing of the voters into the silly identity groups?  Have not we acknowledged when relatives of other ex-presidents attempted to run for office?  The beauty of Obama’s win is that he won the primary by defeating both of them in spite of their tactics. Also I think he won because of the underlying competitive disposition that has colored the Clinton’s marriage.  And I think she lost for the same reason.

Hill’s “Saturday Morning Live” performance was far and away her best ever. But she has much to atone for and lots of explaining to do. If she indeed has the “right stuff”, we need to see evidence of it, soon.

First of all, she has only said she is “suspending” her campiagn. And she has said that several times. She has never said that she is “quitting’ nor has she ever said she has “conceded”. My instincts tell me she is poised in the wings, hanging like a giant vampire bat in the rafters, ready to swoop down on the stage in Denver at the first opportunity.

Secondly, all we have from her so far, as regards support for Obama, is some eloquent rhetoric. Since she has no money, I’d like to see her put her actions where her mouth is. It remains to be seen if she will kick up any campaign trail dust in earnest.

Lastly, if, as many predict she might, she comes up with the chutzpah and sheer gall to ask Obama to help her pay off her multi-million dollar campaign debt, we’ll know this was a sham performance.

The one situation I do not want to find myself in is being held in “suspension”, by a bankrupt hot-air balloon, and a self-annointed presidential incumbent wanna-be. I am far from convinced by one speech. One good base hit doesn’t get you credit for a game-winning home run.

Given the chance, and given her record, she will spoil the party if she can.

Only a long-term supporter of the token candidate could call this outrageous performance “classy”.

It is the in thing today to do a quick “surface refinish” when “mending bridges” so myopic and self serving is what passes in our lap dog press for a political system, they have stopped doing the hard work such as counting the 23 “I’s” in various tenses the business shill spit out during her concession speech.

The pundants gush crocodile tears of sorrow for “poor abused Hillary” while failing to mention her possible job security status. Hey folks, this ain’t some laid-off steel worker who must now be trained to flip burgers at Mickey D’s. She now has offers at Citi-group, her over 200K Senate seat,  and if she feels like going on vacation she has 150 million to take her anywhere she wants to go in the comfort & style she has always enjoyed… Oh yeah, I know, that 20 Million dollar campaign debt she moans about… That’s a seperate entity (under corporate law,) and if she chooses, she can declare bankruptcy in her campaign organization, and not feel it in her personal life..

For me “Graceful exits” come at personal cost. Graceful allows admission of mistakes while truly abandoning current ambitions. The corporate whore (who financed the end of her campaign on the largess of Big banks and Wall Street who forgave and postponed debt service) admitted no mistakes, and has surely left the door open to a convention fight by keeping control of “HER” DELEGATES.” Maybe she is still dreaming about a RFK style assassination.

So bring it on, Tell me I’m “anti woman” tell me that “Hillary haters” are defacto “sexists” I guess the possibility exists, I will tell you one thing, the women who influenced my life, taught me how to be a man, cuddled me when I was sick and told me where the dog died when I was wrong these women bare no resemblance to the business-shill or her minions.

Oh yeah, and of all the women in my life who still remain alive and ready to vote in the fall NONE was ever a business-shill supporter. My Aunt (age 87) calls her “The junk-yard dog”

Hillary Clinton only got better and better as a candidate—and that’s in addition to winning every single debate.  It’s a shame Eugene Robinson treated Clinton with such shameless savagery and Obama with such fawning adoration.  America is not well-served by such overweening adoration of one candidate over another when two such worthy ones are running.