“What has Obama ever done to distinguish himself to be President.”

He will bring change that won’t leave things unchanged. LOL
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He defeated the Clinton Machine. No easy task. Sorry but Hillary got lazy, ran a terrible campaign, and by the time she realized she had real competition it was too late.

Super Tuesday hit, the TV talking heads climbed on board, and the Beautiful O was on his way. Hilllary’s election team’s strategy and her husband really threw her under the bus. She had to carry all that dead weight on her back the last part of the campaign.

You deserved the standing ovation I just gave you.

I wholeheartedly agree with you, but the last time I outed “tish”, I was called a troll. LMAO.

And people wondered why I was saying that Repugnican trolls were just as bad as Obot ones. Go figure. (Notice I haven’t done that to people who declare themselves Repugs?)

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

It may seem as though the Democratic Party can give a sigh of relief: Women have returned to the fold, and will support Barack Obama for president - and presumably his party - after all. But not so fast.

While I and many other women in my demographic (older, professional, liberal) are likely to vote for Obama in November, our feelings about his party (and ours) are not so clear. We remember the perpetual misogyny and sexism of the media during the primary campaign - misogyny aimed less at Hillary Rodham Clinton herself than at “uppity women” (like ourselves) in general. And many of us feel that the Democratic Party is even more to blame than the media.

Let me mention a couple of reasons why I am thinking this way:

First, of course, is the failure of the party leaders to comment on the sexism rampant in the media, especially the liberal media, for months on end.

Second - and this factor bothers me, and no doubt others, perhaps the most: Why did the superdelegates move in such numbers to support Obama? Why did this occur, especially after Clinton victories? For example, I am thinking here of Robert Byrd. After Clinton’s impressive victory in West Virginia, the senator and elder statesman representing that state came out in support of Obama. Because the superdelegates were created to ensure that the Democratic candidate be a centrist, why did so many superdelegates - including liberals and many women - support Obama? Two arguments were made: They wished to follow the will of the people in their district; and they believed that Obama was more electable. But as the Byrd case shows, the first claim was often false; and no one has any idea which of the two, Clinton or Obama, would be more electable in November. It seemed to me that the term was more often used as a kind of excuse, “I’m voting for Obama, but I can’t really tell you why,” than a reasoned argument.

So many women feel that the election was somehow stolen, and by their own party, to boot. They thus feel much the way many Democrats feel about the 2000 election: bitter. When one side feels that they lost an election fairly, any bitterness recedes early on (think of the 2004 election, by comparison). But when the adjective “stolen” leaps to mind, bitterness is apt to prevail, vanquishing any desire for reconciliation and cooperation. That is what many former Clinton supporters are feeling now.

We are disgusted with the party we have long trusted to represent our interests. We are disgusted with ourselves for being snookered - again. We assess the party leaders’ rejection of Clinton as a cynical strategy. If Clinton had ended up as the candidate, the Democrats stood to lose the votes of many African Americans, who then might not vote at all. But if they made Obama the candidate? Well, then (the reasoning seems to have gone), the women always vote, and they will come around. Women always come around, no matter how badly they’re mistreated.

I am reminded of a particularly chilling passage in Vladimir Nabokov’s novel “Lolita.” Humbert Humbert, after raping the 12-year-old, is pondering why she has come back to his bed. “You see,” Humbert tells the reader, “she had absolutely nowhere else to go.”

Not to mention the chintzy transportation (doesn’t cover the cost of gas)reimbursement that veterans get if they live a long way from the VA Center which is the case in the more rural states….