Rage
By Ani on September 3, 2008 at 4:30 PM in Barack Obama, Current Affairs, Democratic Party, Democrats Against Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, John Kerry, John McCain, Misogyny, Sarah Palin, Sexism
These past eight years, every time I saw George Bush on television or heard one of his idiotic sound bytes, I felt the bile rise in my throat. What horrid nonsense is this snake oil salesman spewing now? What other inanity can spring forth to pretend the economy is fine or that we can say “Mission Accomplished” about Iraq? And if he says the word ‘nuke-u-lar’ one more time, I will scream!!
At the start of 2008, I felt buoyed by a sense of hope. I took out the “Bush” countdown calendar someone had given my husband and actually started leafing through it. This was challenging in itself, because, unlike some stand-ups who use Bush-isms to provide endless fodder for their comic diatribes, I could not laugh. What he and his cabal have done to this country is too sad to be funny.
I was elated in January. Change is on the way. Hope is on the way. But hope for change did not come in the package of Mr. Hopey-Changey, Senator Obama, because it took me about ten seconds to figure out he was another snake oil salesman just like George Bush.
Hope for change was my Joan of Arc in a pantsuit, Senator Hillary Clinton.
Let’s not rehash the horror show of the last eight months. You can recite it yourselves in glorious detail, I am sure. My joy at the prospect of good, true Democratic leadership has been ruined. So let’s move on to what’s left and pick up the pieces. I have to look at the Democratic Party objectively, for the first time in my life, I might add, and ask myself if the corrupt fixers who are now in charge of the henhouse have anything to offer me.
Let’s see what they did offer me after kicking Hillary in the teeth in favor of the endlessly dissembling Barack:
1. Get over it.
2. Where else are you gonna go?
3. Vote for us or they’ll overturn Roe v. Wade.
4. Vote for us or they’ll appoint 8 more Scalias to the bench.
5. Vote for us or we’ll call you racist.
Nice.
I’m supposed to vote for a man guilty of filthy campaign tactics who has never governed anything, and spent 143 days in the Senate before running for President; something he said he would not do. I’m supposed to vote for a man who won’t produce his own birth certificate, medical records, senate or college records yet demands everybody else stand up and account for themselves thoroughly. Someone who flip flops on everything he ever stood for and appoints as his VP a good ol’ sexist of the Senate with a lobbyist for a son.
And now I am supposed to stand with a party that is vilifying, demonizing and trashing yet another woman – Governor Sarah Palin. And they are dragging her seventeen year old daughter through the mud. And they are dragging Governor Palin’s child with Down Syndrome through the mud as well.
I may never be a Republican, but both Senator McCain and Governor Palin have already shown they’ve got lots of grit in taking on the big boys and corruption. Whether I agree with their agenda or not, they each have more character in their little finger that Senator Obama does in his whole body.
It is not important to me that our leaders agree with me at all times. It is important that they can and are willing to make a good case to me for what they believe and what they are doing. It is important that our elected officials have a spine, and character to do the right thing when the going gets tough. We don’t have to agree on every issue to move this country forward.
Obama promising to filibuster FISA in February and capitulating six months later told me all I need to know about his grit, his honesty, his character – or his lack of all three.
I don’t need another Bush in office. Guess what? Obama is Bush3, a man lacking in humility. No one is anointed by God. I don’t need someone so arrogant that he does not bother to do his homework and suppresses all dissenting voices by playing the race card continuously. Nor do I need a leader who advocates gutting someone and pretends he had nothing to do with it, standing nobly above the fray with his nose in the air.
Rage. I feel rage.
Senator Obama and Pelosi, Dean, Brazile, Kerry, Richardson, Edwards, Dodd, Kennedy, Rockefeller, Reid, Clyburn et al have accomplished something I didn’t think any Democrat could ever accomplish.
They have enraged me MORE than George Bush.
Impossible you say? Let’s think about it. I expected to be betrayed by George Bush. I smelled that he is not a man of good character, therefore I was not surprised.
I did not expect my ideals to be betrayed by the Party that taught them to me.
We’re supposed to be the good guys: Democrats. Not the sexists. Not the demagogues. Not the liars. We are supposed to stand for something. When any Democrat goes the way of Rove-ian tactics and starts sounding more like Ann Coulter than anybody I’d recognize, I’d say it’s time to leave the Party. And I did.
I will not stand with anyone who stands for this type of behavior. There is an element of this Party that no longer represents anyone’s interests but their own. They have become what they abhor. If I vote for them or with them, then I become what I abhor, too.
I will not do it.
A dear friend, albeit a very apolitical one, just innocently passed along some propaganda about Palin that she received from MoveOn.org. I wrote back and set her straight. It is shocking to me that people who are so used to thinking that EVERY Republican is evil could never believe that ANY Democrat COULD be also. Hopefully, enough people will do their homework and find the real information before it’s too late.
The truth about McCain and Palin’s actions, policies, beliefs and record is nothing like the crap being spewed by the likes of the far left at the moment. But how to convince some of the blinded, kool-aid drinking Democrats, who, desperate for a win at any cost, have decided to adopt the filthy tactics of those such as Rove that got us here in the first place. And those desperate Democrats have taken to eating their own, as in the case of Hillary, or Wes Clark for that matter.
I remember the week before the 2004 Election, Wes Clark, Kevin Costner and Richard Belzer were the panelists on Real Time with Bill Maher – back when I watched that sexist pig’s show – before his sexism was as blatant. Wes took on Bush in a way I had never seen before, which was great and most everyone else was Bush-bashing and encouraging us all to vote for Kerry.
Costner, who I considered at the time to be a bit of an arrogant ass, was advocating voting for Nader and said that he might do so “if he had the balls”. I rejected this notion, saying it would be a wasted vote. He, too, like Nader, felt the parties were too similar and were both corrupt and too beholden to corporate interests.
Wow. If I had known then what I know now!
While I would not vote for Nader then or now, I owe Kevin an apology. He made a very good point: Sometimes you have to lose to win. He also felt that a President should run for only one term – without having the obligation of getting re-elected. That person could just get in there, clean up and be beholden to no one. Ironic that’s what McCain, the conservative maverick, says he wants to do. Picking Palin, the conservative spitfire reformer, was certainly a maverick move, too.
I’m not advocating voting one way or the other. Hey, McCain could be lying, too. But he certainly has a record of working across the aisle and of being a lot more honorable than my other choice.
And my rage tells me that if I acquiesce and vote for the sexist, homophobic, inexperienced liar Obama and put up with the DNC’s treatment of all of us – we render ourselves powerless. Our votes, our participation mean nothing.
We send the message that, not only can the Republicans game an election, the Democrats can do the same. Worse, we send the message that we will put up with it. And just keep bloggin’ on our blackberry and fillin’ up our gas tank and watchin’ American Idol.
No.
That’s not the America I know. That’s not the America I want to live in.
If I have to lose to win, so be it. A lesson must be taught and those with integrity must be encouraged. I can think of no better way to do that than to send every corrupt thug packing on November 4th.
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I love the way you said that!
McCain/Palin ‘08
Hillary ‘12
McPUMA member # 11 of 12
Alleged right wing troll and faux Democrat
Here is Newt Gingrich ripping MSNBC hack reporter Ron Allen when Allen tries to play the ‘resume’ card on Sarah Palin.
Barack Obama, you and your cronies at MSNBC are finished:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGJnKl8HTBo
That is great!!! Thanks to Paul V.
Thank you, Mountain Girl.
Here’s another new video from Team McCain for Ohio, ‘Recovery:’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f69Jqy8meQc
Barack Obama — NOT ready to lead.
McCain/Palin ‘08
With all due respect I do not quite get the connection about drilling and Ohio economic recovery. You could maybe make that argument but it is a stretch. But I like that they are challenging whether O has any ideas.
Please don’t let the US drill for oil off its own coasts. Let the Chinese drill for oil off Cuba’s coast and ship it back to Beijing or maybe sell it back to us if we obey stinky’s New World Agenda.
Thank you Paul!
Yeah, he’s not going to debate because he has nothing to debate with. What’s he going to say? He was a community organizer that ran and took full credit from those that worked their whole lives on the issues he took credit for? That he ran off with 25 bills Jones handed to him he did ZERO of the work on? Irking off those senators so bad they made sure to go public with it. That he campaigned for his cousin in Kenya? Which there is plenty of proof of, and that now his cousin stands accused of genocide because he lost the election and over 600 men, women and children were burned alive….That he claimed Ayers was just some guy in a neighborhood. Whom he helped to distribute more than 100 million dollar with. That there were a ton of articles out on Rezko and that he was being investigated so Obama knew, and still went ahead and did he shady land deal with him…That Farrakhan calls him the savior?? That he sat in Wrights church for 20 years listening to Black Liberation Theology being taught, then subjected his children to it. A belief that hides under the guise of a religion the same as the Skinheads try to do, which makes him just as dangerous. The KKK. That is just as racist. What???
And I thought that if you have campaigned for someone from a foreign country that this makes you ineligible to be POTUS. Why doesn’t anyone make a deal out of this? I believe that if you really looked into all of this you would find him ineligible, not just unqualified.
The Obots are so ignorant!
They have no idea WHAT they are trying to defend..when they try..mostly all they do is engage in personal attacks.
Keep it coming…they are helping sink the FAKE: OBAMA..The LEAST QUALIFIED INDIVIDUAL TO RUN FOR POTUS!!
And may I add…the LEAST individual I would recognize as being representative of a true AA
Say! Thats a PUMA TALKING POINT NEWT!
“you name one thing for me that Obama has accomplished???”
LMAO
This is powerfully said and if I still had a way with words the way I used to (30 years ago), people would have said I wrote it! Rage on… you’re not alone.
I am with you all the way. This is not the Democratic Pary I knew and it is certainly not the America I thought I knew. Rage and horror and shock – those are the emotions that are roiling and I will not abide these sexist pigs any longer.
Obamacrats must be excised from my Party and all those good old boys put out to pasture. I am working in VT to elect a woman governor and local Dems who remain anti Obama and pro Hillary. All down ticket Dems that are part of this misogyny and sexism will feel my wrath; this is sickening.
Americans must be excised from your party?
This is still America. I am full of rage that people can truly still think that McCain will not be more of the same. Let’s wait four more years and then see what this country looks like. Just because someone does not agree with the McCain/Palin policy does not make them sexist. She is not qualified. Has nothing to do with the fact that she is a woman.
I am outraged at the treatment of Hillary as well but will never vote for another republican at the expense of this country just to try to “send a message”. All that says to the repubs is continue your garbage, we don’t care.
The reformer you talk about, hired a lobbyist to work for her in Wasilla in order to get those earmarks she wanted.
Never mind he was chief of staff for Ted Stevens and was a client of Jack Abramoff. Yes, this is the reformer we need in America. More of the same corrupt hypocrites.
Where’d you get your info seasiren? Did you consider the source?
Yes, I would not have brought it up other wise.In her years as mayor of Wasilla, Palin oversaw the hiring of Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh, an Anchorage-based law firm with close ties to Alaska’s most senior Republicans: Rep. Don Young and Sen. Ted Stevens, who was indicted in July for allegedly accepting illegal gifts. The Wasilla account was handled by the former chief of staff to Stevens, Steven W. Silver, who is also a client of Jack Abramoff’s now debunked firm. This is all public record and the fact he was able to lbooy for 27 million dollars on her behalf.
I’ve been spending the day reading about Palin at mudflats.wordpress.com, an Alaska blog. She’s an awful person — born again and pushy about it, ruthless, secretive, corrupt, vindictive, a pratitioner of government by crony. A real Republican. (Disclaimer: I am not an Obamacan. But she’s truly awful too.)
I just want to say, don’t fall in love with McCain/Palin. There is nobody to vote for.
What politician have not dealt with lobbyists? Even *gasp* the pretentious one, who got dirty money to buy his own house. Now that’s audacity of corruption. Palin got rid of the old guys, that’s reform enough for someone running for a VP. VP, get it, not the Prez. And don’t give me the “one heart beat” crap. Reagon got through eight years, even though many wished he wouldn’t.
That wasn’t a lobbyist, that was a criminal.
Pull your head out of you tuckus and think for yourself. Sucking the big lie at Daily Kos is not courage, sister.
We have to reclaim our true traditional Democratic Party.
Rid ourselves of these far leftist Hate-all-that-is-America individuals.
As the Repubs must rid themselves of the far right My-God-or-Else nuts.
Country FIRST
Constitution FIRST
Extremists never do anybody any good. The way Obie’s Dems are behaving now is irrational.
Will Women/Men Let This Happen Again?
Watch this video, see how they trashed, insulted and denigrate Hillary
http://countusout.wordpress.com/
We will not forget what they did to Hillary
NEVER
On November 4th..ALL WILL HEAR OUR VOICE
Exactly so.
They showed how they really feel about all women. Dems have been holding women hostage to Roe v. Wade for years.
If they didn’t overturn it under Reagan or Bush I or II, certainly McCain, a more moderate person, will not.
Especially when he knows he will be getting elected on the backs of Hillary supporters too disgusted with their own party and Obama’s lack of qualifications to vote for him.
Well said. We may have to lose to win, but at this point, what do we have to lose?
Bravo! You have put into words what I (we) feel. I am sending this article to my sister-in-law, a die-hard democrat who supported Hillary but will vote for Obama. My brother is so upset with me that I am not supporting Obama, saying we will lose the Courts if all dems do not vote for him (he too supported Hillary but is okay with Obama). I have not been able to get through to them how I (we) feel about Hillary losing the election. It is so much more than that. If she had lost fairly, that would have been different. But to have had to watch this horror show the past 8 months is beyond sickening. Having worked as a volunteer for Hillary and seen things “behind the scenes” so to speak, many average voters still do not have a clue as to what went on. How the DNC sunk to Rovian style depths to steal the primary and annoint their favorite son. If Obama had any qualifications I might even consider voting for him even after all that. But he is my senator from IL and I know first hand how totally useless he is and how incompetent, deceptive, and deceitful he has been. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS ARTICLE. It is good, and sad, and awful that we have come to this place where we are actually considering voting for John McCain, or not voting, in this election.
DITTO!!!!
Thank you so much for putting EVERYTHING in an easy read post! I will be sending this out to MANY people…to explain what I feel.
This I hope will influence people.
McCain ‘08 (or Hillary by an unknown yet to be identified force – I can never give up)
Hillary ‘12
Might be interesting in 2012 to have Hillary and Palin running for the first Woman President!
McCain will be one term.
Susan B
I so agree with you about BO. He is my senator as well. I am completely disgusted with the deception and bad behavior he has engaged in. I decided that the Green Party – Cynthia McKinney/Rosa Clmente – has my vote.
I have a friend who has tried to tell me about the ugliness of both the Dems and the Reps. It took this year, and this candidate in particular, to teach me the lesson my friend had been attempting to teach me all along. And I am enraged beyond all words. Enraged at the Democrats who stood behind the smears and the lies and the marginalizing, and the blatant disrespect and disregard shown toward you and me and Hillary and our nation.
So this Illinois voter will thumb my nose at Obama and Biden. And I will cast the vote that I own for the Green Party and the candidates who represent it.
(see themountainsage.wordpress.com for August 30)
As Morris says..
The backlash will be massive!
Well stated. I cannot in good conscience vote for Obama. After what I saw first hand at my caucus…they resorted to what amounts to dirty pool. I thought we were the better party because we didn’t roll around in the mud like the Rovian Republicans. Republicans in my view, should have punished Rove for his behavior. Well Axelrod and Barky are about to get spanked. No Obama, no how, no way.
they resorted to what amounts to dirty pool.
I think bambi has to run the table in the swing states, and I don’t think this is likely to happen.
To use another pool analogy.
I’m a Democrat from Virginia, BTW.
I think the Democratic Party shot itself in the head last week.
His foolish minions just demonstrated the meaning of new politics and bipartisanship for the whole country to see. Who’s going to believe his talking points after that? Except for the Obots, that is.
I may have considered voting for him if he had Hillary on the ticket as VP. I’m not sure. But, he and the DNC shut her out completely, now I’m voting for McCain. I actually heard some of his surragates saying Michelle wouldn’t hear of having Hillary included. My husband watched FOX this morning and he told me there was a whole line of Obama’s supporters saying they didn’t approve of the attacks against Gov. Palin. I don’t believe them. I wonder if it is getting through to them how much damage they have done? The juxtaposition of the attacks on Hillary with the attacks on yet another woman exposes them like nothing else could have done. McCain is a willy old fox, isn’t he? They’ve underestimated yet another as they did with Hillary and her supporters. The Republicans are not having any of it. I saw an interview with one of the editors of US mag. and this woman on Fox was all over him for the lies in their edition about Palin.
His campaigners obviously thought they could get away with this shit a second time. But I get the idea that they have been exposed for the trash they are. Sorry, they’re just trash. They need to be relegated to the nearest landfill, preferably RCRA-licensed, since they’re also hazardous waste.
Therein lays our greatest disappointment…WE thought that our Democratic Party was better than the Republicans…but in this year..we have witnessed that they have acted worse than our worst nightmare.
We cannot..we will not..condone!
Take our Party back..or we will start a new TRUELY DEMOCRATIC PARTY!!
Count on it
good post…well said…you hit the nail on the head, it’s about character and principle.
The Republicans are SUPER CHARGED up about Sarah Palin.
They just showed the cover of US magazine,cripes, what a rag!
You should have seen US Weekly Sr Editor Bradley Jacobs on Fox a little while ago trying to say that the article is “balanced” and that the reference to lies is in regard to the left-wing blogosphere. He started jabbering when the host asked him if he honestly believed that that’s how people would interpret the headline.
Yep. Megan Kelly toasted him good. She has been furious about this whole smear Palin thing but has been careful not to be too outspoken about it. This interview allowed her to unload on this idiot who didn’t have anything intelligent to defend himself with. Go Megan!
Not outspoken? The woman is foaming at the mouth. She has the IQ of a flea. I saw the Megan Kelly piece and she did not toast anyone. Talk about ignorant.
Gee. I thought you were too smart to be taken in …
I agree! Megan is great. I just hope that cover backfires on Jann Wenner.
You make excellent points, and Lieberman made alot of sense in his speech, vote for the person not the party!!!
This election is completely bizarre & the actions of the dnc need to be punished, IMO. Not to mention the faux news coverage.
I’ve come to appreciate Lieberman.
Just checking in with my daily greeting for Obombo and Ol’Biddy – Fuck you.
A new non-partisan group for women’s rights at
http://thenewagenda.net/
“Mission Statement
“The New Agenda, through its members and partner organizations, seeks to advance women’s rights.
“The New Agenda will bring about a systemic change in the way women are treated in the media, by the government, at the workplace, and at home. To achieve our goals, we will empower women by working towards parity in the government and in the workplace. The New Agenda will also formulate an agenda based on core women’s issues which we will promote in a non-partisan fashion. The New Agenda will speak out for the millions of women in this great country who often have no voice.”
A 31 Aug 08 press release:
“THE NEW AGENDA to Serve as Watch Dog for Women Candidates
“The New Agenda (www.thenewagenda.net), a non-partisan women’s rights advocacy group with men and women members nationwide, recognizes the history making selection of Governor Sarah Palin as Senator John McCain’s running mate. As Governor Palin hits the campaign trail, The New Agenda members will serve as watch dogs monitoring news coverage and statements by political pundits, campaign surrogates and other commentators for any sexist bias.
“We cannot and will not sit idly by while another qualified candidate goes through what Senator Hillary Clinton had to endure. Issues are fair game. Sexist treatment is no longer fair game,” said Amy Siskind, a co-founder of The New Agenda.
“The New Agenda members are monitoring the airwaves, blogs, and print reports for derogatory language, misogynist attacks, and denigrating statements. The New Agenda will respond swiftly against any perpetrators of such attacks.
“Our members were outraged that within 24 hours of Governor Palin’s historic candidacy she was dismissed as “tokenism,” she was referred to as a “MILF” (mother I’d like to f*uck), and chuckling male commentators said:” The only thing she didn’t say was who needs some pie I baked this morning?” added Siskind.
“The New Agenda members are committed to promoting women’s leadership and ensuring that women candidates are treated with the respect they deserve. We are confident that the media, the campaigns, and campaign surrogates can turn this historic election into one we can look back on with pride.
“For more information contact:
newagendapress@yahoo.com“
I’ll be joining them. Thank you very much for the link!
Thank you Sally. I am going to check this out. I am very unhappy with NOW, Emily’s List and Naral. I believe they sold Hillary (and me) out. Those organizations have become too much a part of the system and were too afraid of being labeled racist to stand up against the sexism.
Thank you for a great post. Brava!
No more!
I tell you what, the Obama thugs are now in full-fledged swarming rage mode. Out in the chatrooms and discussion groups, the Obama thugs are swarming like cockroaches, throwing every possible smear and largely targeting Governor Palin. They are now going after Alaska for being the “meth capital” of the world, and have also released Governor Palin’s SS#. This is just a small list of horrors being perpetrated by the angry left Obama thugs.
It seems like when Obama is facing a serious challenge, as what happened with Senator Clinton, the viciousness among this group elevates to an extreme. There is nothing that they will not do. And they revel in the grossest and basest forms of misogyny against female candidates I’ve ever seen. They have no shame. They are frankly a menace to society.
Wow, no wonder I left the Democratic Party. If this is what it has become, I must be as far away from it as possible. The stench is overpowering. This may be the death of politics. This may be the end of civil political discourse as we have known it.
I lived in Dallas. Trust me. It would be hard to argue that anyone can beat Dallas for the title of “meth capital.”
Well Bush scammed the elections in 2000 and 2004 and we all know Obama did it in the Primary our votes probably won’t count anyways, but I will be voting republican for the first time in my life and it is a Protest vote of Betrayal but with lots of satisfaction of voting for Sarah. Then Independence will be my stance for the rest of my life.
Shame on the DEM/DNC for not standing up for Women and tearing down Hillary and Sarah.
Touché Ani
The thing that is different here, the Republicans are standing up for Gov Palin, and I know many think Democratic women should stand up for her as well, not on a political stand, but a female stand. I don’t think they can come out as Democrats against this amount of lies, but they could preface anything with, “As a woman, mother, daughter, etc. I find this offensive and unnecessary, and not part of any political process”. I agree with Republican Chick on this, it is the Republican Party’s responsibility to defend Gov Palin, however, it also needs to be said, the only Democrats that defended Senator Clinton were her supporters. The Republicans are protecting their own, compare that to the Democrats, right now. IT’s as historic as Obama’s nomination
ani…well said!
when my partner and i watched obama way back in 2007, after considering the wealth of candidates at out disposal, we couldn’t believe the gut feeling that sprang from an intuitive sense of, as you put it so well…snake oil salesman.
we just kind of looked at each other and shook our heads. from that moment on we were for Hillary. and rightfully so, it turns out.
as a result of the great travesty against Democracy during the primary season and the truly corrupt outcome of a “selected” nominee, i have left the New democratic pahtee.
i am rooting for the obamcan coup to go down in flames.
i feel your rage.
Your message should be broadcast to all. Unfortunately, the free ride press are giving Obama the ride they gave Bush for awhile. Those that we rely on for free speech and the truth are betraying us again. The 9/11 honeymoon for Bush went on an unbearably long time, and now this. It’s attrocious.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Cristi Adkins Reports on Minnesota Press Conference
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Carly Fiorina Announces Democrats for McCain
September 2, 2008 Carly Fiorina, Cynthia Ruccia and their team held a press conference to introduce the Citizens for McCain Coalition, a group of Democrats and independents who plan to vote for John McCain in November.
Six prominent Democrats and former Clinton supporters joined Fiorina for the conference in Minnesota. Included in this group of outstanding citizens was a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton, two elected Democrats, and a former Clinton-era ambassador to OPEC. Individually, they explained how the anti-democratic campaign of Barack Obama and his Chicago style, worse-than-usual-politics, disillusioned them and drove them to support McCain.
· Ambassador Mark Erwin
· John Coale, former fundraiser for both Clintons
· Silver Salazar, Hispanic community leader in Colorado
· Brian Golden, former state representative from Boston and an Iraq War veteran
· Jennifer Lee, a Hillary Clinton campaign worker from California
· Cynthia Ruccia, women’s rights activist and former Congressional candidate from Ohio.
This fascinating group of activist and savvy business people certainly could help the McCain campaign with centrists and independents come November.
Other coalitions intend to join the Maverick Ticket, such as Cristi Adkins of Clintons4McCain who states that she “intends to throw her full support behind this active group.”
Cynthia Ruccia states that “the Citizens for McCain has received over 50,000 new members in the last two weeks. As the word continues to get out about McCain’s Maverick spirit and moderate ideology, the more people are coming out in droves to support the Maverick ticket, IE: McCain/Palin.”
Shockingly, the reasons for these individuals’ flying to the other side are as varied as those speaking them, but that won’t necessarily delight the Democratic base. They not only discussed the unvetted executive test of Barack Obama, but stressed how disrespectful the media was to Senator Clinton in the primaries which went largely uncontested by the DNC or by Obama. Expressing extreme unhappiness, Coale, Lee, and Ruccia specifically mentioned the sexism of the Obama campaign and the Democrats in general.
Cynthia Ruccia added this morning, “The gross misogyny that occurred in the primary season was rampant and had the potential to set women back nearly 20 years. What’s worse, for those of us who supported Hillary, its Déjà Vu all over again. However, the real news that Senator Obama and the DNC need to understand is that this time women in America of all political parties will stand up for the women in politics; or in the public eye for that matter and we will fight this disgraceful Chicago style tactic tooth and nail.”
While those ‘angry female’ issues won’t give the democratic hierarchy pause apparently as evidenced by the Palin attacks, which continue to show the Obama machine as meaner-than-usual, a few of the other reasons the Clinton supporters (and other fellow dems) gave for now throwing their weight behind the Maverick team might just wake up the rest of America.
These feisty Democrats also pointed out the positive aspects of John McCain’s fighting spirit and touted ‘Country before Party’ as they also praised McCain’s moderation ideology.
In addition, one or two of the coalition members specifically mentioned immigration as a reason to support the Maverick McCain/Palin ticket.
On the other hand, Ambassador Erwin gave a great response to a question at the end about foreign policy and how Obama is hopelessly naive. It makes a great sound-bite.
Megan Kelly, on Fox, just had the editor from US weekly on and ripped him a new one for the cover of their magazine. They have gotten alot of bad publicity and I suggest they get even more. Also, she mentioned that while O’Reily is having Obama on tomorrow night before McCain’s speech, that it wasn’t going to be the whole hour. Seems they’ve gotten a lot of mail about that and I say they should get more. McCain didn’t do anything to take away Obama’s speech. In fact, he did a commercial congratulating him. I say continue the e-mails.
I voted for Hillary in the Ohio primaries, but I didn’t really pay attention to the sexist remarks. How I wish I had, but I am paying attention now. I worked as a union rep for over 10 years representing women’s rights. I did it for all women, whether they agreed with my personal views or not. You see, just like the constitution, there are also by-laws for the unions. The union boss can’t overturn any of those by-laws just like the vp can’t overturn any laws. I wish women would understand that instead of being held hostage by their womb. I’m pro-life, conservative, yet I voted for Hillary because she was the most qualified on the democratic ticket. I’m an independent and I knew that R v W wouldn’t be overturned now or in the near future. I have no problem voting for McCain/Palin because McCain was always my second choice. And I am becoming ashamed that I worked my ass off all those years for some women who truly don’t get it.
Thanks so much for your post. I so agree with it.
Within the past four minutes an Obama supporter on another blog tried to take me hostage over Roe v. Wade. No reward, not vote for Obama the cheating sexist.
The MSM attacks on both Senator Clinton and Governor Palin may have produced enough bipartisan outrage to generate a purge of the media by Democrats and Republicans.
Senator Clinton said she would have more to say later about the media so let her bring it on. I suspect it will not happen before the general election and am sorry she dared not do it during the heat of the primary battles when the culprits would have welcomed another opportunity to bash her.
Yes, for sure. You do know why Senator Clinton did not give a big time speech on sexism after Obama’s speech on racism, right? Well, in a nutshell, she would have been accused by the mainstream media of “whining.” Yep. That’s the sexist double standard operating in today’s political climate. It’s disgusting and highy offensive. I think it was brilliant in many ways that Senator McCain chose a woman as his running mate, to open up once again the gaping maw of sexism and misogyny that is the overriding strategy of Obama, his supporters, and the left mass media. I have never been so outraged in my life.
The ONLY positiveness that I can possibly see..is that this prevalent widespread sexism and mysogeny is being exposed and discussed.
With my love and respect for the American people..good will inevitably result.
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If McCain/Palin don’t get into the White House, I hope Palin would run president someday. That’s if there is a United States left after Bo gets into office. I think Hillary Clinton is a cope-out. The hell with your political career…you need to stand up for what is right. America won’t elect a 72 years old man, why in the hell does she think they are going elect a 65 year old woman for president in 2012. It is now or never.
Rage. I feel rage.
They have enraged me MORE than George Bush.
Once again Ani, we are in complete agreement. I was feeling that today, and I am so tired of being this angry. I have felt this way for months, and instead of finding peace, Obama and his cabal (including the media) just keep upping the ante, finding new and improved ways to infuriate and insult large blocks of the American public. Those of us that are paying attention to the reality behind the technicolor Barack display that is.
Well said!
pal3, I am disappointed that both Clintons didn’t blow the whistle on the Dim’s theft of her nomination. If she had stood her ground, a mass of people would have stood with her. Doing the right thing is its own reward, even/especially in politics.
There is nothing I can say here, but from everything we have all learned, I can assure you too much was going on behind the scenes for her to have been able to do anything like that.
Recent history also shows us this would not have worked. Her own horrid party and ALL of the media were screaming bloody murder that she did not shrivel up and die the night of the June 3rd primary and get the hell out of the way for “his” historic candidacy. That she even took a few days to suspend was the subject of endless vitriol. When you have the bulk of the mainstream media against you and [corrupt] members of your own party, along with Obie and his supporters — and certainly the Republicans were fraid of running against her in the GE so they were not going to help — where was she to turn? Of course we would have stood with her – and we did. But that was not enought to stop the back stage arm twisting.
Truly, she stood up as long as she could and then some. The amount of pressure this woman was and is under is staggering.
I wish that were not the case.
But the party may have destroyed her dream of serving this country as the President. By not standing up against the internal corruption now, she might be seen as too timid or calculating when 2012 rolls around. We needed the bad-ass Hillary who spoke up for human rights in Beijing, but we got the party loyalist who demurred to the bullies at the darkest hour of the party history. Not a confidence booster for her future candidacy. But of course, things can change by 2012.
I think more will be revealed later on.
This stuff cannot come out now – there is no environment for it with the press so fixed for him.
kc there is not a damn thing timid about Hillary Clinton and it is pathetic for anyone to say such a thing. She has been under attack, not for fifteen months, but for fifteen years most of it by Republicans. I am planning to vote for McCain and I’m very happy he chose a woman to run with him, but I will take on anyone who has the nerve to suggest Hillary doesn’t have more guts than any woman in this country. I intend to do my best to support Sarah Palin against sexist attacks just as I did with Hillary, but make no mistake about this: There was nothing else Hillary could have done. The media eviscerated her every time she or her husband or daughter opened their mouths and she had no one fighting for her from the DNC or the media. Just eighteen million who believed in her and whose protests were ignored. Toward the end of the primaries, voters began to see what was happening and that is why she won most of the final primaries. You sound like someone who never would have voted for her. Well, she’s not on the ticket thanks to Obama. He is going to lose and Hillary’s power in the party will increase in direct propotion to the size of McCains win. Then we can look for Hillary and her defenders to get rid of the coruption which may be a more important outcome for her and for those who supported her. She will go down in history for her accomplishments and if she is denied the biggest prize we can comfort ourselves with the eighteen million cracks that let the light shine on another woman.
Beautifully stated, Elise. Thank you.
Great post Ani. And the title really speaks to me right now becasue I just received an email from Ricki Lieberman about the Denver Convention and the ‘roll call vote.” And RAGE it is!!!!!!
As we all surmised, it was all a set up and contorlled by the big -0-, Dean, and Pelosi. But to read the reports and comments from the delegates just broke my heart. And that is happeneing a lot lately. They were railroaded and states were threatened that the DNC would give them no money for their down ticket candidates if they did not vote for the -0-.
Well, the Democratic party is finally the UNdemocratic party and is fascist in nature.
We have got to stop this and put an end to it this election cicle. Obama’s defeat must be massive. We have to speak loudly and clearly at the ballot box this November or we may not have an America left. Obama and the DNC MUST BE STOPPED. NOW!!!!!!
lol Imagine if Sarah Palin survies and actually win in November. She would have taken down the most powerful media network in the world. This woman is somethign special. First she takes on her own party now she is taking on the liberal news networks.
I love Politics agian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We all hope Sarah is someone special. That she has a backbone of steel. That she has compassionate heart. That she has her own principles that she lives by, but won’t force them on others. We hope, just as we hoped for Hillary to rise up, and was saddened that she didn’t. So we hope Sarah will rise and triumph in the biggest fight of her life.
I have nothing to say after your post. You said it all I have been feeling.
I live in Texas and I feel safer with Texas not going for that idiot Obumer.
It’s interesting that when Obama compromises on FISA he’s a sell-out and a flip-flopper, but McCain has an honorable record for “working across the aisle.”
Double standard?
NO. Obama made a declarative statement that he wouldn’t support FISA. Then he did. Oops.
And he did it on a very scary basis… He looked at the bill and said HE found it to be a real compromise, in short “it’s ok because I say so!”
The real difference here is that the Dem Party leadership has made Obama the moral barometer
This was evident when Obama gave his speech on racism. He became the voice for determining what is racist in this country. when Obama equated the bigotry of that from his grandmother to that of his spiritual mentor and pastor for over 20 years (a man whom others believe to be speaking the words and moral code of God) that’s when I knew he was a snakes oil salesman, and Liberals had to stop this insanity.
The point was well-made that there are other Black pastors and churches that do not share these beliefs of his pastor and church. His church is not representative of all black churches. Just because Obama says it is so does not make it true.
The Democratic Party has always been one of ideas NOT morality. No one decides our morals for us, we are after all a party full of thinking people. Or has that stopped now?
Personally, I don’t want a party telling me how to think or deciding my morals for me! The Democrats lost me when they started saying that my being a true Democrat depends upon me voting for their particular selected candidate Obama.
Thank God some Democrats have the courage to stand up and do what’s right — to stand up for principle and the very life of the Democratic Party.
You hit the nail on the Oblockhead, indeed. My 32 years as a Democrat is done (at least until 2012, depending on whether HRC runs)
Danny how old are you? Get a dictionary, because you are so ill-informed. “Working across the aisle” means brokering legislation with other members of Congress who are in the opposite party. Barack Obama has taken righteous stands (”I WILL FILLIBUSTER FISA!”) and then completely changes his position–not over a number of years, but sometimes within weeks or months–to gain political advantage. Then, he lies about ever having taken the previous position. We have seen this same pattern over and over again. Get your head out of the vat of Kool Aid.
Would either of these count as “brokering legislation with other members of Congress who are in the opposite party?”
http://lugar.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=278019
http://obama.senate.gov/press/060908-senate_passes_c/
I’ve always said I find that Americans are more sexist than they are racist. And Europeans are more racist than they are sexist. The entire world is now seeign what HRC was tryign to say.
No longer will American women have the moral authority to tell Middle Eastern women abotu women rights.
You have this exactly right. Only in America are women drugged so massively with anti-depressants and medically castrated at such a unbelievably high rate. Only in America.
The medical abuse, with women willingly accepting this abuse, is a uniquely American phenomenon.
It is time for women to get really, really angry. And show it instead of continuing to get drugged and castrated. And paying billions of dollars for this dubious privilege. Health care costs in the US will drop dramatically once we stop this voluntary drugging and cutting of women.
No longer will American women have the moral authority to tell Middle Eastern women abotu women rights.
Sarah, that is sadly true.
Well said.
I will only add one or two thoughts.
Obama will be the DNC version of Bush only he will be recycling Jimmy Carter’s mistakes with a neo-liberal spin.
If Governor Palin shatters the VP glass ceiling, good things will happen for women which will never happen if left to the good will of BO, Biden, and McCain. I don’t like that McCain and Republican policies are part of the Palin deal, but we need to break the cycle of men running things and this may be the year to do it. It’s terribly sad that, thanks to the Dim goons, Senator Clinton will not be the shatterer.
I agree, but Hillary can still shatter that glass ceiling as the first Madame President!
Sad that the most qualified for the job is not on the ticket. Obama and the DNC need to pay for what they have done to our party!
I suppose any woman will do regardless of her policies and values? Thank God we still have an electoral college.
Hillary was qualified which is why I supported her. Palin is not. She was picked for only two reasons: To try to get the Hillary sympathy vote and in order to shore up the base. No other reason. McCains own campaign wanted Lieberman but no, they went with the pander. All this poor choice did was shore up support for Obama. No McCain, No Obama. We are left with a disgusting choice in this country. Two corrupt parties, running to see who can be the most corrupt and unqualified. Great choice.
Palin was picked because she is an amazing woman. YOu need to see the video of her Newsweek interview in March 2008. You will change your mind 180 degrees once you see her in action.
seasiren, that says it all.
I can empathize. I voted for McGovern, Carter, Clinton, and then the Democrat party left me. I didn’t leave it. It pains me to say it, but I’m in the same boat as Zell Miller. I wish I could put my finger on what happened, what went wrong, but I can’t.
I’m not naive, I understand that in order to be a successful politician one must first be an accomplished lair and panderer. But something has changed. Principles don’t matter anymore, there is no integrity anymore, party has become more important than country. What they don’t seem to understand, on both sides of the isle, is that if the boat goes down, we all go down with it, not just the Repubs and not just the Dems, all of us. My gut tells me that ideology rules, facts matter not, party trumps all.
I close with a question for all. Which is more dangerous to a free society, a state run media that controls the news, or a free press with an agenda and new media (blogs) with no ethical standards or enforceable code of conduct?
To answer your question Zoomer, they are equaly dangerous. Your choices are flip sides of the same coin. Neither option is there to serve the people. Today’s press is there to serve politicians, not the people, as our Founding Fathers hoped.
I don’t expect politicians to be honest or to be there for me. A tiger can’t change his or her stripes. The free press is sypposed to serve as a buffer berween ‘them’ and ‘us.’ The press is supposed too help us know what the bastaerds are ip to and what they are doing. But today’s press has become the basterds with the politicians.
The press no longer serves the Republic. They serve themselves and the ones they are supposed to watch.
“I wish I could put my finger on what happened, what went wrong, but I can’t.”
What is happening is evil is taking over…This is spiritual warfare. We might fight!
Grrr, I’m mad as hell! Ani–EXACTLY how I feel.
Can anyone give me examples where the Obama campaign has been sexist toward Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin. And I don’t want some crackpot conspiracy theory about someone at Kos connnected to the campaign. Obama or a member of his campaign.
Hillary’s foreign policy experience as First Lady (verified by Nobel Prize Winner John Hume, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, and Senator George Mitchell among many others) was described by Obama as “Hillary having tea parties.”
When she criticized him for his lies about her health care plan, he said “periodically when she is feeling down, the claws come out.” Can ya see the subtext in that?!
How about the day after she creamed him in the ABC debate, and the next day (he never confronts her to her face) at a rally in NC, they played the JZ song, “I Got 99 Problems and a Bitch Ain’t One?” In the lyrics, it talks about brushing a bitch off your shoulder, and Obama mimicked the gesture.
How’s that for starters?
And if you don’t think Axelrod and Obama are complicit in the attacks on Hillary and Palin, you are really naive.
“Periodically Hillary gets a little down” (BARACK SOTERO OBAMA)
“Hillary is a monster”. Obama key staff person speaking on record for his campaign.
Please, you honestly think Barky will leave his grubby little paw prints where we can find them? Rove 101. Leave no trace. Have minions do your dirty work, fire them if they get caught and THEN denounce them. But notice he never came out and asked his supporters to stop. He did say some sleezy thing about bringing a gun to a knife fight. He did say famlies are off limits but it’s a little too late to call back you hellhounds.
fif at least has some reasonable examples. Even if I agreed with you that those some of those statements were over the line, it hardly makes the case that Obama is some crazy sexist. Obama could easily point to as many slights with racial overtones, but you don’t want to see that.
That’s crap!
You want to go back to the times when men made cracks that women weren’t qualified to be in positions of power because of their periods, you be my guest.
Otherwise, you are being completely disingenuous. because by your own example what racist comment did Hillary make?
Questioning his record is not racist
Questioning his citizenship is not racist
Questioning the company he keeps is not racist
Questioning his qualifications is not racist
Questioning his lack of candor is not racist
Questioning his patriotism is not racist
Questioning the way he has run this campaign is not racist
Questioning the events that led up to his fraudulent nomination is not racist
Questioning your treatment of a candidate before she even has a chance to address the electorate is not racist
Questioning the way you obamabots come to a site that clearly isn’t interested in what you’ve got to say is not racist
Questioning the lies you put forth as fact is not racist
Questioning your motives is not racist
The simple truth is, not-so-dear obamabot, that we don’t like your candidate because he both unfit and unqualified to be POTUS.
Dismissed
These conspiricay theories crack me up.
Hear tell our government is about to be taken over by aliens from outer space. Oh wait, maybe Obama is an alien and not a man. He has minions like hellhounds.
Obama bad, McCain good. 8 years of the GOP is plenty. americans have a crappy choice to make in this election.
Obama is not a God or the devil. Get real. This does not help in deciding who to vote for. Facts would be a novel idea.
Obama has minions like hell-hounds.
You don’t understand, bot. We won’t vote for your false Messiah and unqualified candidate even if you threaten to hold your breath until you turn blue.
Here is a conspiracy theary you are going to love.
The Koolaid is spiked.
Read the comments on Huffington and Talking Points Memo to understand the depth of female hatred the Obama campaign supports. We do not want any of these people to be anywhere near the levers of this country. Obama is responsible for his supporters words and actions. They are filthy.
Is McCain responsible for all the bile aimed at Obama? Your argument would be more credible if you didn’t make fun of other people’s gums.
Obama’s gums are sick and glossy because he is a chain smoker and a liar. McCain supports straight talk and telling the truth about Obama is straight talk. Yes, McCain can support hearing the truth about Obama and that is what his campaign is all about.
Straight talk from a Republican? What’s that old joke about if his mouth is moving he must be lying?
McCain is not responsible. His minions, the hellhounds are.
that’s a joke about all politicians in general.
oh yeah, I forgot, Obama isn’t one because he says he isn’t
Another load of crap, the Obambots ate up with a spoon
Your the last person to talk about credibility Peggy Noonan.
seasiren: You are to the mythical temptresses as HuffPo is to journalism and Milli Vanilli is to music.
No of course not. That would be trying to get the facts. It’s okay to call Obama names because he is a man, a very bad man. But start questioning Palin and you are sexist. Half the quotes and stories about both candidates are based on rumor and inuendo which is what makes it difficult to chose who to vote for. This is what happens when the country is divided on policy and party. A complete breakdown of civil discourse and of course then you get the name calling. These are the great american voters. Hate someone enough and you can’t see the forest through the trees. Voters always vote against their own self interests. Then sit back for four years and lament on it. I did not vote for Bush and I will never support another repub. Don’t like Obama either. I think it is time for a real third party.
Your facts are constituted of prefabricated hogwash a pig wouldn’t wallow in. That tells me everything I need to know about your “opinion”, which was given to you this afternoon.
yeah…the pig is choking.
I think when a Dem primary candidate chooses to say that the other Dem primary candidate is emotional because she suffers from “periodic lows” as a response to his own personal shortcomings
making a comment about a woman’s period…
DAMN STRAIGHT I CONSIDER THAT SEXIST!
I considered it sexist when men said it to me when I lived down South. I considered it sexist when men said it to me as a joke at my work. And I considered it sexist when Obama said it with his own mouth!
I’m sorry you were treated that way but I’m glad you’re here posting about it.
No Bama
No Way
Never
i’ll give you one directly from his own mouth…when he talked about hillary and her ‘periods.’ he was too stupid to know that a woman of 60 does not menstruate anymore.
this entire campaign has been filled with other comments just as offensive. bo does what he always does..lets his surrogates make those vile remarks and then steps back, with his nose in the air, and says ‘i didn’t say that.’
he is a jerk, a pig, an asshole, who must be brought down hard.
Peggy Noonan is a troll.
Do a google — there are several blogs which have a LONG list of Obama’s sexist remarks etc.
Go away you sexist male chauvinist pig troll.
Ok Look how the republican men and women are standing up for Palin. But Howard Dean , and the rest of the big guys let the media ridicule HRC. Pay Back!!!
Can anyone give me examples where the McCain/Clinton campaign has been racist toward Obama And I don’t want some crackpot conspiracy theory about someone at Fox connnected to the campaign. McCain or a member of his campaign.
There are no examples coming from the McCain campaign or the Clinton campaign. The only one screaming racist was the Obama campaign and his foul church. Racism conspiracy is necessary for black community cohesion.
Good point pal3. When we look back at the primary campaign we can see some people who maybe stepped over the line. However, it all looks pretty small compared to what Democrats have in common and what is at stake in this election.
The only thing the Dems have at stake in this election if putting more people with full union rights on the public payroll. And you know it.
pal3 and seasiren are trolls and bots – look at the similarity in their posts.
Sorry pal3, meant to say Peggy Noonan.
We are witnessing the worst overt sexism in the 21st century no less. This is what the feminist movement has done for us? What progress has been made when HRC was attacked viciously by the media, by BO’s thugs and by WOMEN who are old enough to have fought for the rights of all women. Are they showing their true colors now, that they are as misogynistic as men? That they want mothers to stay at home and shut up? Are they saying that if you’re not a BO leftist thugette then you are fair game for all types of sexist attacks? Well, I’m old enough to remember women standing up for tougher rape laws, women standing up for domestic violence issues, for equal pay and against discrimination in the workplace and I’m ashamed of what these so called liberal feminists are doing to Palin and what they did to Hillary. And even if they didn’t do or say something out loud the number of reporters, journalists, politicians, etc that stood up for her is almost nil. Go McCain, Palin, I don’t care anymore about the Dems, they are a dead party.
It has a lot to do with the glamorization of ghetto culture and the dumbing-down that has swept the nation. Hos and Girls Gone Wild and all. I finally had to talk to my 15 year old about the misogyny in the songs he listens to. From rap to hip hop to pop this has been going on now for almost a generation. And the women’s movement has really been riding on its past achievements for years. During that time “feminist” became a bad word because the little girls just assumed there had always been equality. This election cycle proves that we are slipping backwards into a woman hating society. Women are still judged by their bodies. In fact, it is as bad now as I have ever seen it. Time to bring back feminism.
Tipper Gore had it right about the dangerous of the lyrics — I have a feeling most parents don’t listen to their kids music.
Ironic that it was some of the children of Democrats who went wild and launched all sorts of attacks against Tipper Gore’s campaign for labeling of music. The attacks against Tipper were very sexists — some of the email I received from these male idiots was astounding — vile sexist stuff. One creep put my email address on porn email lists. I had to cancel that email address.
Since then I’ve watched the misogynistic wave rise to the point where it seems like there is an organized campaign of hatred against women. I am always reminded that Shirley Chisholm said that see experienced a greater degree of sexism than racism — the boys club was very strong.
Sexism is learn behavior — and it will continue until leaders demand that this behavior is as unacceptable as racism.
I’m a military brat and the President ordered that racism was to be eliminated in the military — and his word was law. I grew up in fully integrated housing and went to fully integrated schools on base. My playmates were of all races and we really thought nothing of it.
It took Presidential leadership to eliminate segregation and racism in the military — and it will take Presidential leadership to eliminate sexism. McCain has taken the correct step by example.
When 30% of US women have already been castrated and billions of dollars are spent drugging the rest of them with anti-depressants, you only have a slow boil going on in US women. They are the weirdest medically compromised group of women on this planet. The lid is coming off.
Post meno women have docility-inducing HRT drugs, and are not getting castrated. They are emerging Amazons. Watch out. Their numbers are growing. A critical mass of intact, undrugged women is emerging. And we are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
There can only be one answer: IGNORANCE
The root of most of our inhumanity throughout history.
“….because it took me about ten seconds to figure out he was another snake oil salesman just like George Bush.”
Same here, when I told people they called me
‘crazy’…..
Some facts why there is such huge amount of floating rage among US women.
1. Depression is suppressed anger
2. Anti-depressants are the leading selling class of drugs in the US, sold primarily to women in the US.
3. Female medical castration rate in the US remains close to 30%, levels unheard of in any other country on planet.
4. Decades of massive HRT female hormone drug use, the drugs of female “docility” are tapering off finally learning these drugs were decidedly harmful to generations of women with billions of dollars in profits going to the Wyeth drug company primarily. (Wyeth also a major seller of antidepressant Effexor)
5. The lid is coming off decades of suppressed female rage in the US.
6. Yipeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I sure agree with you that depression is repressed anger. One of the symptoms is lack of energy and feeling helpless. No more helplessness! Women are becoming energized.
I’d just like to mention a few things. By “female castration” do you mean removal of ovaries? I had to have my uterus and ovaries removed in my early thirties. Never regretted it.
I am clinically depressed and I need anti-depressants. Some of us have bad brain chemistry.
I never took estrogen because of a strong family history of breast cancer. Never haad any problems without it.
Every woman is different. But this election cycle has also shown me that all women are the same in that we have to fight back.
80% of female castrations done in the US remain “medically inappropriate” according to a Kaiser-Permanente study.
Yes, castration is removal of the reproductive organs (tubes, ovaries and/or uterus and cervix) No other country anywhere on the planet has such a high female castration rate.
US women need to ask why this has happened and why they were for decades willing to submit to “medically inappropriate” castrations.
This asshole is smearing Sarah and the majority of americans just don’t care. She might not be a relative of yours or affiliate with your party, but any decent human being would find this offensive and should be outrage.
How do the tactics now being brought to bear against Palin differ from the tactics that have long been employed to try to bring down Barack Obama?
Nobody wanted to stick to the issues. Now we’ve got the sort of campaign everyone seemed to want.
Moron, tactics were not used to bring down Obama, FACTS WERE!
FACT: Obama for the last 20 years sat in a racist, hate-filled church and his spiritual mentor and father figure, Rev Jeremiah “GD AmeriKKKa” Wright is a loony racist loon. And Obama, in the words of Wright, “never batted an eye” in exposing his two young daughters to such hate-filled filth every Sunday morning.
FACT: Obama, also for the last 20 years or so, have been close friends with terrorist Ayers, who bombed many sites around the country and hurt innocent people. Obama started his political career in Ayers home, had close partnerships in different initiatives and considered Ayers a very close friend and advisor in Chicago. And Ayers is unrepentant about his terrorist ways.
FACT: Rezko was the slumlord financier of Obama, raised much funds for him, and even helped him purchase his dream home in Chicago.
You know who didn’t want to stick to the issues don’t you, it was BO himself when he said that this campaign wasn’t about racism
He brought it up by deflecting it…. politician all around
Obama left too many gaps in his own story which is why he got attacked.
He never yet has produced his valid birth certificate. The one he produced was a forgery. He never produced his medical records but gave Hillary hell for what he saw was tardy timing of her tax returns. which were clean.
Nor is their any reported value in his “community organizing” besides getting party hacks elected.
He skips from job to job and never spends time accomplishing anything. There was massive and documented fraud at the Dem caucuses that elected Obama. This is worthy of consistent attack to undo his damage.
Your boy is dirty, has a dirty past and it is up to him to start coming clean. He brought this all on himself. Palin has hidden or evaded nothing.
She knows and accepts what it means to be a public servent. The public owns you and pays your salary. Obama never even shows up for the job but only cashes the checks.
Well put. That’s it in a nutshell.
And we still don’t have any of this information on him.
And the media is not even asking.
Time to scream louder.
Dear Main Stream Media,
You guys are a bunch of c*cksuckers. I hope every last one of you who have decided fair and balanced journalism is a reponsibility of the past and not part of the new style of journalism we need today chokes on a pretzel in your rush to influence this election at all costs.
Prepare to puke:
http://patdollard.com/2008/09/megyn-kelly-rips-us-weekly-editor-to-shreds-over-palin-story/
What the hell happened to ethics in this country?
Evil is taking over…
Nope there is no evil. The lid is coming on the medical evil done to US women: castrating and drugging them into docility.
When you say a$$hole… did you know…
Jan Wenner, the UsWeekly owner and $5700 Obama contributor, is gay and living with another man.
You may want to apologize.
(Sarcasm.)
He can live any way he wants … he needs to allow other people the same right!
The guy is still an asshole. It’s the term of his character, not his lifestyle, moron.
sorry pal3, I meant Peggy Noonan..
Sorry again
Ani, this is my story, too. It is exactly what my husband and I experienced and how we feel now.
…”And my rage tells me that if I acquiesce and vote for the sexist, homophobic, inexperienced liar Obama and put up with the DNC’s treatment of all of us – we render ourselves powerless. Our votes, our participation mean nothing.”
Excellent.
I was a true blue Dem but not after this!
I am also a veteran.
Go John Go Sarah!
I hope the DNC drowns in their own crap in November.
Remember in November!
Remember in November!
Remember in November!
Remember in November!
Remember in November!
Remember in November!
Remember in November!
Remember in November!
Thank you for a very well-written explanation of how many of us are feeling.
Hear, hear. The heck with “amen”.
Tell it like it is “Ani”!!!
You kicked ass in this post. You and the rest of the writing team at NQ are doing a great job summing up and eloquently writing so many of our truths. Thank you.
You are my Voice. And you’ve put words to my inner thoughts so well.
d2d — thanks.
Please feel free to forward and cross post. We all have just so many contacts – but you are our network.
It is so important to understand that up is down this year and we cannot stick to stereotypes about who is good and who is evil.
consider it forwarded to my network. thanks for the comment.
BTW: if there are as many “brain chemistry” depression cases in the US as their are anti-depressant prescriptions, we have a massive public health problem that needs congressional investigation and public health support as to cause and cure.
Instead we have greedy drug companies and doctors who want a pill that gets women out of their offices. And that is what the billions of dollars going to massive anti-depressant drug use is paying for.
Just say no and honor your anger instead. And kick the butt of anyone who tells you otherwise.
2 Timothy 3
But understand this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, savage, opposed to what is good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God. They will maintain the outward appearance of religion but will have repudiated its power. So avoid people like these. For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions. Such women are always seeking instruction, yet never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. And just as Jannes and Jambres [Pharaoh's magicians] opposed Moses, so these people – who have warped minds and are disqualified in the faith – also oppose the truth. But they will not go much further, for their foolishness will be obvious to everyone, just like it was with Jannes and Jambres.
Right On, Ani.
Hillary Clinton ~ I am so proud to have lived in her Lifetime. I’m thrilled to have been in her presence this Spring. Bill is simply a dream. Chelsea now has her place in the Sun. Love that Child.
Looking forward to Hill greeting and getting to know Sarah Palin and her beautiful Family this Winter.
She has a place in History (strike) Her Story. She will live beyond in a higher place than ever being the “POTUS” in this day, this Age. (Pisces)
She will forever be the One who actually broke the Glass/ Marble Ceiing. We just don’t know it yet.
I love seeing the stork circling the White House. mmmm One of these days the White House will look like a real American Family.
Thanks to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Our former First Lady.
Head Bands and Pant Suits are a good thing. mmmm and newborn Babies smell soooo good.
BTW. For the first time in my entire (adult, trying) life can I say it’s hip to be Square. I dig. I dug.
I’m excited to see the whats gonna happen to this dNC?…I still see jail. Larry, sidebar…November 5th…a real whodunnit?
I love a good mystery with a Court Case.
Great Job, Ani!
I can’t express the anger I have. The fact that Daily Kos is now the news editor of the national media is not acceptable.. it’s not.
How many of you feel so enraged that you could actually conceive of a civil war.
Everyone must cease spend any money on the Media. There has to be a national rejection of this.
What is our nation to become with these jackals who have the ulimate power to destory a person.
I think the rage is based on a sense of betrayal; I know as a woman I didn’t see this coming then it started happening to Senator Clinton. I expected some trash about what Bill did, but never thought I would read the lies, and filth, and then see the glee manifest as a campaign theme for the O campaign. And racism, I really didn’t think that one would happen either. TO see millions of people labeled for the benefit of one man. What did the democrats think would happen,after they allowed this; we would really have no where to go? IT is never smart to back one person, yet a few million in a corner; as Americans some of us take pride in standing up for ourselves, no party owns me, or my vote, and obey was written out of any kind of agreement for anything a long time ago.
Yeah, they keep forgetting that Americans — as a nation, tend to get their back up when they feel that people are telling them what to do — that just might backfire.
It is wonderful to find like-minded people. I too had my eyes waaayyy opened to what the Democratic Party is really all about through this primary. I too am making a protest vote this fall and I will be absolutely delighted to vote for a woman. I have already made an agreement with myself, that I am not voting in the future for a presidential ticket that is all male. My 19 year old daughter couldn’t understand why I wasn’t going to vote for Obama. What about the future of our world she said. I said I wanted a future in which women are respected. That I thought that was important. I cannot condone the disrespect shown to women during the democratic primary. Obama’s staff called Hillary a monster. Obama’s spokesperson said Hillary had no right to cry in NH since she hadn’t cried for Katrina victims (as if he knew whether she had cried for Katrina victims), Obama’s staff called Hillary a racist. Obama never deplored any of the media sexism. I’m done with that.
Be sure to check out Huffington’s interview with black Republicans at the RNC on Huffington Post.
She wheedles every way she can to get them to support Obama yet she totally fails. And then has the gall to say they had “conflicted” feelings. I’ll give Arianna credit for at least posting this condemnation of Barack Obama by “his own people” and not calling them racist.
They give her an earful on all of Obama’s fake attributes and confirm he has done NOTHING for anyone in his Chicago district.
And they really drive home the lie that “he voted against the war.” Arianna got egg on her face big time on that one.
One thing to be aware of is that most, not all, but most, of the reasons democrats hate Bush is nothing more than lies and propaganda put forth by the same people trying to get Obama elected. And, if you look at Clinton’s policies closely, there is not a hell of alot of difference between her and Bush, on a great many things.
Other things? Well, liberals are simply wrong. Things like abortion, gun control, welfare, yadda yadda yadda. But, you know what? There is alot of room for compromise and good government.
That’s what McCain is all about. But not Obama. What Obama is about is race based fsacism…..possibly treason, as an agent of islamo-fascism. Not even considered a possibility by our controlled media, it is a fact, however, that Obama has a long trail of evidence that points to the fact that he was a wahabbist muslim…into his adulthood. And has lied about it. However, what REALLY should concern people is the fact that one of his brothers was involved in wholesale slaughter of Christians in Kenya and belongs to a group now calling itself the taliban.
Let me be blunt. The fact that the DNC now chooses a man like this as its leader, is rather clear evidence that maybe you should abandon them.
Before something bad happens.
way to go sarah
wow!
Whether there is a direct link between O’Bush 08 and Daily Kos is not the question. The question is: who controls the flow of ultra-left viral net money into the Democratic Party? Who has the power to cut off that flow? The nature of that control, in the 21st century, will be different from a CEO pulling cash out of a corporate account to buy a politician, but the ‘net’ result is the same. The ultra-left owns the DNC just as much as Exxon would if Exxon were stuffing $50 million a month into Howard Dean’s go-go thong.
I stress that this is not a campaign finance reform issue. It’s a voter awareness issue. I don’t want to see a law to regulate viral internet campaign donations. But voters should know, everytime they see an O’Bush ad, that ad is paid for by MoveOn.
Now, it’s true O’Bush took their money and then said ‘let them drink pee’ on FISA. Historically, white leftists have tried to manipulate black rage as a route to power. That’s why you see the netroots calling everybody else racist, when I know they are racist themselves. It didn’t work with Obama because black people are wise to this trick. So Obama ‘played’ the netroots out of megamillions. He continues to play them because they can’t face the truth that Obama made fools of them. Too bad Obama is unqualified, because this is his one redeeming quality.
So the netroots will get nothing from Obama. Like he said, ‘let them drink pee.’ But the Democratic Party is another thing. It is under the financial control of Hypocrisy, Inc. (MoveOn.Daily Kos). Is the DNC accountable for the disgusting behavior of Markos’ mindless slave army of viral replicants? The party is accountable to Hypocrisy, not for.
The Democratic attacks that have been thrown against Sarah Palin for the choice she made to have a child she knew had Down Syndrome, and the sexist remarks that she has no business being VP with 5 children to raise has stripped the Democratic Party of any legitimacy that it might have possessed on reproductive rights and feminism.
Having reproductive freedom means having the choice to decide to carry a pregnancy to term; not just the freedom to abort it.
The Democratic Party that claimed to have stood for the right of women to mom’s and CEOs, or anything else they desired, in fact does not exist. It is the emperor with new clothes. Imagine my shock seeing Rudy Guiliani, and the Republican Party coming to the defense of Sarah Palin and standing up against sexism.
Democrats pander to get votes. The current leadership believes in nothing beyond winning elections. Having witnessed the testimony of pledged delegates first hand as to the fascist measures used to prevent democratic process from being fulfilled at the convention, it is also obvious that the current leadership will do anything to secure the outcome it seeks.
Make no mistake, defeating Obama will not mean we have reclaimed the Democratic Party. It is going to be a long process of shining light in dark corners, making the roaches scatter, and making sure they cannot return. That process starts now.
Shtuey,
Thanks for weighing in. You are spot on.
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