bust Posted May 24, 2008 Report Share Posted May 24, 2008 Wasn't she just calling a spade a spade..... Don't see what the big deal is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 25, 2008 Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 Hillary Clinton's colossal blunder simply the last straw SICK. Disgusting. And yet revealing. Hillary Clinton is staying in the race in the event some nut kills Barack Obama. It could happen, but what definitely has happened is that Clinton has killed her own chances of being vice president. She doesn't deserve to be elected dog catcher anywhere now. Her shocking comment to a South Dakota newspaper might qualify as the dumbest thing ever said in American politics. Her lame explanation that she brought up the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy because his brother Ted's illness was on her mind doesn't cut it. Not even close. We have seen an X-ray of a very dark soul. One consumed by raw ambition to where the possible assassination of an opponent is something to ponder in a strategic way. Otherwise, why is murder on her mind? It's like Tanya Harding's kneecapping has come to politics. Only the senator from New York has more lethal fantasies than that nutty skater. We could have seen it coming, if only we had realized Clinton's thinking could be so cold. She has grown increasingly wild in her imagery lately, invoking everything from slavery to the political killings in Zimbabwe in making her argument for the Florida and Michigan delegations. [color:red]She claimed to be the victim of sexism, despite winning the votes of white men.[/color] Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 25, 2008 Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 Hillary Clinton's candidacy has done feminism no favours By Camille Paglia When the dust settles over the 2008 election, will Hillary Clinton have helped or hindered women's advance toward the US presidency? Right now, Hillary is in Godzilla mode, refusing to accept Barack Obama's looming nomination and threatening to tie the Democratic party in legal knots until the August convention and beyond. Those who think she will withdraw gracefully in a few weeks are living in cloud cuckoo land. The Clintons are ruthless scrappers who will lock their bulldog teeth in any bloody towel. In her raw ambition and stubborn, grinding energy, Hillary will certainly cast a long shadow on young women aspiring to high office. She is both inspiring role model and cringe-making bad example â?? an overtly feminist careerist who never found a way to succeed without her husband's connections, advice, and intervention. Bill Clinton may have masterminded Hillary's runs for the Senate and for the Democratic nomination, but he has been a gross liability in recent months, as he has co-opted the hustings to maunder on about himself or to inject divisive racial overtones into the debate. The next major female presidential candidate will be well advised to stuff any errant husband into a rucksack and chuck him down a laundry chute. If they are to be truly equal, women must fight their own fights and not rely on a borrowed spotlight. Hillary has tried to have it both ways: to batten on her husband's nostalgic popularity while simultaneously claiming to be a victim of sexism. Well, which is it? Are men convenient sugar daddies or condescending oppressors? As her presidential hopes have begun to evaporate, Hillary has upped the ante in the crusading feminist department. Her surrogates are beating the grievance drums, trying to scare every angry female out of the bush. From that rag-tag crew, she will build her army. Let the red flags fly! Hillary is positioning herself as the Crucified One, betrayed, mocked, flogged, and shunted aside for the cause of Ultimate Womanhood. But doesn't this saccharine melodrama undermine the central goals of feminism? For all her claims of media bias and ill treatment by her male fellow candidates, Hillary has got off absurdly softly in this campaign. No one â?? neither her rivals nor mainstream journalists â?? has had the guts to explore or even list the bursting catalogue of past Clinton scandals, in which Hillary was nearly always hip deep. Charges of sexism have become Hillary's rote strategy for evading scrutiny. But by entangling the noble movement of modern feminism with her own knotty psychodrama, Hillary is reinforcing hoary stereotypes about women. Will every losing woman candidate now turn on the waterworks and claim to be maimed by male pride and prejudice? BTW Camille Paglia is a long time Democrat ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 25, 2008 Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 p.s. This has always been fascinating: << So that's the rationale for her head-spinning personality changes? For every new state or region, she trots out a new tone or accent, from the crisp to the cornpone. It's crude and patronizing â??which is partly why she has surprisingly lost support among her peers, educated upper-middle-class women. >> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 25, 2008 Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 Wasn't she just calling a spade a spade..... Don't see what the big deal is. Maybe something to do with this? << Giving voice to such a vile thought is all the more horrible [color:red]because fears Obama would be killed have been an undercurrent to his astonishing rise.[/color] Republican Mike Huckabee made a stupid joke about it recently. Many black Americans have talked of it, reflecting their assumption that racists would never tolerate a black President and that Obama would be taken from them. >> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTO Posted May 25, 2008 Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 <> Flash - so what happens if by some awful chance that say Obama (after getting the democrats endorsment) or/and McCain have accidents and die? Say august1. What happens? Does the runner up get to run? A new ultra quick series of polls? Super Democrat delegates and Republican equivalent decide? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted May 25, 2008 Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 Sounds like another dose of American Fear campaigning through the media. What does Bill O'Reilly have to say about all this? http://www.friction.tv/ftv_debate.php?debate_id=2947&gclid=CO-kw9rmwJMCFR4vagod7RYfCA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh_Hoy Posted May 25, 2008 Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 Funny, but it isn't O'Reilly. HH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 25, 2008 Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 It's never happened, so who knows. But it would obviously be up to the party to choose another candidate. A bigger concern has been what happens if a candidate has won the election - but dies before being inaugurated? Say a president has been elected, but dies before inauguartion day. The vice president elect doesn't succeed, since he hasn't been installed either. Then what??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weird Posted May 25, 2008 Report Share Posted May 25, 2008 they sensed Obama truly wants to do something worthwhile. HAHAHAHAHA. .. HAHAHHA... ok I can't breathe. Thanks for the laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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