…this would have been fine without the penultimate paragraph. Really.
I swear this primary is little more than a Rorshach test, you see what you see. I still have yet to be convinced either way that Obama is a better candidate than Clinton, or vice versa, because what I still see is a candidate spouting platitudes versus another candidate spouting platitudes.
Which is why I […]
One reason Democrats lose elections is that they think everyone who doesn’t think as they do is an idiot that doesn’t know what’s good for them, breaking voters down into rich, poor, formally educated, informally educated and similar demographics and then equating them with racist, sexist, stupid, and opportunistic. Democrats: Party of the […]
Published May 10th, 2008
in Feminism and Hillary Clinton.
Especially when laid out so damned frankly.
If you can’t get through an article about Indiana without mentioning a certain twenty-year-old sports movie, you aren’t qualified to write it.
One thing about Indiana is that it has a long history of competing ideas and interests. It’s not only the home of the KKK, but also of Eugene Debs, one of the founders […]
I haven’t picked my candidate yet this election season — Clinton is too much a mainstream conservative liberal, and I suspect Obama, despite his glowing accolades, will someday be outed as a politician (crazy, I know) — but I have been watching the election coverage with great interest. Nevertheless, rather nonplussed with either option […]
Published February 16th, 2008
in Barack Obama, Election and Hillary Clinton.
The Rude Pundit is definitely right about HRC and her political baggage, fair or not, but this comment by Richard Florida characterizes some of my fears about Obama [via Roxanne]:
I have long said the central animating issue in American politics is neither partisan polarization nor the culture wars but a festering class divide. Obama may […]
Published February 16th, 2008
in Barack Obama, Feminism and Hillary Clinton.
It’s not about dog whistles, it’s about dismissing HRC with careless sexism. If you’ve never been told you are “ruled by your emotions” in a professional capacity, you probably wouldn’t get it either.
But shit, you know how women are.
For the record, this is #2.
UPDATE: GR explains it further,
If this isn’t intended to be […]
Junk that is conspicuous in the political sphere warrants commentary. A man speaking in front of the Senate or at a political lunch with an ex-President, unless he is utterly incompetent, has thought about how he wants his junk to appear. Visible junk doesn’t just happen. Nor do clingy pants. Every man who is competent […]
Despite the blabbering over whether Americans would vote in a Mormon president, whether a B-list actor on a crime show could be the next B-list Reagan, and whether McCain really looks gay in a knit pullover, a recent poll found that nearly a quarter of Republicans are unwilling to back top-tier hopefuls Rudy Giuliani, […]
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