SoS Hillary Clinton, via Al Jazeera English … and a segue into musings about friendships …
By Lena Grove aka nasuS on December 3, 2008 at 8:50 PM in Current Affairs
(speaking for myself only)*
Of note to Steve Markom who’d spoken with me about this via e-mail, Hillary Clinton’s support for Israel is important in this new administration, as the video narrator points out.
That man’s remarks are dreadful.
Then, of course, there’s Christopher Hitchens yesterday on MSNBC. Joan Walsh of Salon, thank god, put him in his place very authoritatively.
See “Media Matters – Hitchens makes another unsupported accusation against Hillary Clinton on Hardball.”
It is a shame to see such a bright, learned man allow himself to become a lying buffoon.
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* We will be adding this phrase to the top of our stories, except for Larry Johnson:
(speaking for myself only)
This is solely to ensure that what we write in our articles does not reflect, necessarily, an overall blog viewpoint or single opinion.
We choose to be a diverse community of writers with diverse, often conflicting, ideas and perspectives.
I think it is so unimportant for us to agree on everything. Some of us are thrilled that Hillary will be SoS, and many of us are worried for her and what Obama will do to her. But instead of force-feeding you ONE point of view, we’re going to allow our writers to express ALL of their concerns as well as both their negative and positive feelings about her new job.
There’s nothing more boring — to me — than going to a blog or magazine where I know exactly what it will be writing.
While I got a kick out of some of his shows, Sean Hannity’s programming suffers from its utter predictability. I still DVR it, but I fast-forward through most of it because I know exactly what’s going to be said. Only if Karl Rove is on — or perhaps Newt Gingrich (and only depending on the topic) — do I bother to listen.
That’s because Rove’s ideology doesn’t trump his ability to speak his mind.
Anyway, our goal is to surprise you, to edify you, to anger you, to make you think about something in a new and interesting way, to challenge you.
But we’re not so consumed by hatred and mistrust of Obama that we cannot be pleased, at times, by some choice he has made.
I’m sorry he had to give ANY position to Bill Richardson, who’s a sorry excuse of a man who’s had far more than his fair share of opportunities that he’s squandered. An ambassadorship to Outer Mongolia would have been too good for Richardson, imho.
Predictability is a snooze. That’s why Dick Morris — who has quite a mind and a good bit of political cunning — is so BORING when he’s talking about the Clintons because he’s so consumed by hatred that his brain no longer functions.
And that’s why Christopher Hitchens — who’s so learned, so gifted in both writing and oratory — is a boorish bore when he talks about the Clintons because he too is consumed by hatred of the Clintons.
In Hitchens’ case, I sense it is a repeatedly warmed-over rehash of the catastrophic break-up of his long friendship with Sidney Blumenthal who has remained steadfast in his allegiance to the Clintons. Those two were very close friends but had a highly publicized break-up during the Lewinsky days. It’s clear to this amateur shrink that Hitchens still hasn’t gotten over the loss of that friendship, and is still obsessively talking to himself and an imaginary Blumenthal day and night about the Clintons. Since one rarely hears about or from Blumenthal, I can only assume that he has moved long past that break-up, and is doing rather splendidly. Winning the Oscar for the Best Documentary of 2007 for Taxi to the Dark Side is no small achievement. And his productivity with his books, which are such great reads, is impressive.
The break-up of friendships can be devastating. But I think it is always harder on the one who knows, deep deep deep down, that he is the one who made the fatal step too far. And that’s clearly Hitchens.
We ALL lost friends during this election season of 2007 and 2008. Many of us lost longtime, dear friends. It says something about the true quality of those friendships, however, that a mere election could split us up.
Earlier today, I wrote in a comment about a friend who called me last spring and tore me “a new one” for not backing Obama as well as for the profane language on our blog — we’d published one of our beloved Sugar’s more, um, frank posts that day. That Sugar is one wild woman! I knew it was risky to publish her writing “as is” but I couldn’t resist — sometimes I just love wild, unruly writing. And Sugar is so good at it.
But, while it bothered me for a few days, I moved on. I realized that that friendship couldn’t have been as dear as I thought it once was if such simple matters could be the final straw for this other person. Life goes on. Friends come and go. And through this blog I’ve made some marvelous new friends who brighten and enrich my life in ways i cannot begin to describe. I love those new friends. And we do NOT agree about everything.
The other day, I had a touchy exchange with a writer here who means the world to me. I could have said nothing, but my heart told me that I had to. It was very difficult, and it hurt me so much because I feared that she would be hurt by what I wrote. I feared she would feel defensive. But it was better to air it than hide it. We’ll get past it.
Friendship. Tell me about yours. Tell me what has happened with your friendships during this election season. Tell me all.
It will be curative for all of us to bare our souls about those damaged or destroyed friendships, and to rejoice in our new friendships.
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I’d be much happier if Obama doesn’t choose to appoint Dan Kurtzer special envoy to the ME, reporting directly to Obama, thus circumventing Hillary. He’d be the one to force Israel to accept a “peace” agreement whereby Israel withdraws from the WB. Kurtzer is one of those anti-Israel left-wing Jews.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1042698.html
There was a reason why so many Muslim groups supported Obama. It sure wasn’t because of his alleged support of Israel.
Hitchens is irrelevant, he is a total loser, let’s not to take this joke seriously.
Ron,
Please read this article by Caroline Glick @ JPost; especially the last part….
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=2&cid=1227702394020&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
I lost one friend in 2004, she was going to vote Democrat then got engaged to a George W. Bush-voting Republican. I still wanted to be friends, but felt it immoral to keep my mouth shut over what I thought of Bush. She uninvited me from her wedding. 22 years.
I lost another friend in 2008, I had met her in 2004 campaigning for Dean, then Kerry. This time round she hated Hillary and liked Obama.
It’s grown chilly between me and a few family members who hated Hillary and loved Obama.
It’s been a rough four years.
yeah AF. I lost a few friends too. sad…
Obama stole my boyfriend, oops, my ex boyfriend. We hung in until after the election and then had to have some serious relationship talks. We broke up. It turns out you can judge a person by their politics. He’s a hopey changey believer in relationships that never have conflict and are all love and sunshine all the time. I am more of a realist that people are people and things come up that you need to deal with. Anyway, I realized that apparently at any sign of conflict, he is going to run away, so we ended things. I guess I should thank Obama for showing me the true colors of my man before I got in too deep, but still 3 years down the drain. Bummer. I lost a good friend this year, too. He is gay and thought that I must hate gays if I would even consider voting for McCain. I will be forever changed by election 2008.
Same here AF, two friends of 30 years and on dicey ground with family.
My daughter actually announced at my birthday luncheon (directed at me) that we would not be discussing politics but then pointed out the selection of Hillary for SOS and said she’d help women and children. I pointed out that after giving her the finger during the campaign, I considered his appointment merely an attempt to control the Clintons. She then said “Oh, that’s just some myth from your bloggers.” Sent her the YouTube with the people in back of him laughing about it. No further comment. We finished if off by my saying that we could leave well enough alone for now because there’d be plenty of time for “I told you so’s” later.
With all of Hillary’s detractors in the press, it’s going to be another rough four 4 years.
Wow….I missed that YouTube could you post it here?
Thanks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DygBj4Zw6No&feature=related
This one’s better “Senator Clinton was in her element [pause] [cheek scratch with the middle finger]“
Link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpWLGH-0Fac&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoOFp-RDpvM
Ok I don’t know how to post the link but I like the one on YouTube that’s titled “Obama gives Hillary the Finger in slow motion” because it gives a good shot of the 2 women in back of him laughing and their lips saying “he gave her the bird” Hahahaha. Yeah. Funny.
I also have a friend for more than 30 years. She inspired me because she has polio and have worked hard to make something of herself. Before the election, she called me to tell me how excited she was supporting Obama and was startled when I rattled off what I know about Obama and why I do not like him.. She was very disappointed in me because I did not support her candidate.. I told her that I do not like him and I do not like his policies. For one thing, my husband and I worked so hard to accumulate the rewards we have in life and I just can not accept the fact that Obama is going to redistribute what we work so hard for. After the election, she expected me to accept that the people have spoken and that I should support the newly elected president. Again, I begged to disagree with her and told her that I still do not want him as my president and I will never support whatever it is that he wants to do as president.. She attempted to explain that perhaps I am a racist and that I am wishing for Obama to be assassinated. That was the final draw. I told her that I do not wish for anyone to psychoanalyze me why I did not vote for Obama or why I continue to refuse my support for his presidency. I just lost a friend on account of our differences. I told her I am not alone in my position and that she should stop telling me how to think and how to conduct my life. She said she is happy joining as a volunteer for the community organization that Obama people set up in her community in Florida.. She proudly bragged that if there is anything Obama is not doing right before their very eyes.. she claimed she has a direct line to the White House and tell Obama they disapprove of his decisions.. I told her…In your dreams.. it will never happen.. I felt that our friendship had ended right there.. I have been sending her Christmas present every year because I am more privileged in life than her, but somehow, deep in my heart, I felt that I could not accept her ways and her thinking and that we lost our friendship..
I realized when talking to my boyfriend about ending our relationship that if he and I were truly meant to be, he’d have been right there with me supporting Hillary and we’d have both felt that it was wrong for a nothing to be handed the top job. He was ok with anyone with a D by their name. If we were so great together we would have been more like minded on a topic like this.
What I do find funny is that after his guy won, you’d think it would be great. He should be all happy now. He got what he wanted (?). Instead he kept scolding me about McCain, Palin, the SCOTUS and Roe vs. Wade and how could you not care about the world and support Obama. I just can’t figure out why Obama supporters are so unhappy. Are they bracing for the “I told you so!”?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081203/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_panama
Just the start of Obama’s many “CRISIS”
Bummer about those oil prices, for Russia.
What’s a Putin to do when there is no more money?
Well, I hope they didn’t have money in the US stock market…
This wouldn’t be happening if McCain was President.
Yeah, it would, Russia isn’t afraid of McCain, in fact, Rick Davis works, or worked for the oil oligarchs connected to the Kremlin.
Republican or democratic, they’re both corrupt, it’s important to see things as they are, not as you want them to be, there are no heroes, here, at least not in the congress, executive, or judiciary.
Not public heroes, anyway.
Putin isn’t afraid of those he owns, and that includes, indirectly anyway, a lot of American politicians.
Susan gave the example above, via Hitchens, of Hillary Clinton and Pakistan. I don’t know if it’s true, but really, it’s the model they all use, why would a foreign govt be afriad of a US govt it can pay off? And that makes Hitchens rant all the more spurious, ie, Clinton? What about the rest, they all do it…?
And isn’t that why a lot of us deride Obama?
(Obama lying, though, Clinton, and McCain never really hid their lobbyist connections).
“President-elect Barack Obama is considering the appointment of Daniel Kurtzer, former American Ambassador to Egypt (1997-2001) and Israel (2001-2005), to become his administration’s presidential envoy to the Middle East, a senior Israeli diplomatic source said this week.”
“Obama’s decision to appoint a special envoy reporting to him directly, rather than to the secretary of state, indicates that the president-elect attaches special importance to the regional peace process. Reportedly, several of Obama’s advisers recommended the appointment.”
Hey Larry, What, if any, significance do you read into this? Is this the first step of giving his SOS a title but will upsurp her power?
This would be very very bad. The special envoy must report to the SoS; last night Martin Indyk (Clinton Adm.) and Richard Haas (Pres. Foreign Relations Council) spoke about the fundamental importance of this and how terrible it’d be if such an envoy would report directly to the president.
This interview is well worth your time to listen to.
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/9686
Good one. Anyone would know that the proper protocol should have people report to him THROUGH her. Grrrrr.
Great discussion, well worth the time.
Already doing the run-around. I don’t like it one bit!
“Is this the first step of giving his SOS a title but will upsurp her power?” Yes. Yes. Yes it is!
Middle East politics are dicey, not only for the emotional minefield they represent, but also for their role as a US-Russian proxy. If this is true, and Steve Markom alluded to such a move in his essay, it is truly, TRULY a misstep for Obama.
The Clintons can handle this, they see it, they understand the greater highly complex dynamic, no one, and I mean no one, on Obama’s boy staff of real men, real guys, is up to par, they are as intellectually obtuse, as klutzy and uninformed as John Bolton.
And it means far less for Hillary than it does for the US, the US strategic position, and the future of Obama’s presidency.
Too bad, he’s out.of.his.league.
He becomes, to me anyway, again if this is true, the flip side of Bush Cheney, his own OSP in the making (and I really hope not, ugh, the LAST thing he, the US, and the world, needs).
The probelm isn’t the Israelis, it’s simply not that cut and dried, simply not as simplistic as Obama’s real men seem to think.
Too bad.
OTOH, Gates gets it, as does Clinton, maybe Jones.
We’ll see.
OK — this is the first “I told you so” . . .
We knew that Obama would pull some sort of crap on Senator Clinton — because he is a sexist pig — you can put purple lipstick on a sexist pig but he is still a PIG.
It’s still early, I hope he sees the light.
I doubt it, though.
For a long time I’ve been telling people via comments there is no “we” on this blog. I’ve always assumed articles and comments not by Larry do not necessarily reflect his viewpoints. I do think it has been a good idea for you and Larry to remind people of this. But some of us have been clued in all along.
well said, galt.
Well said, Nasus!
I almost stopped reading this blog immediately after the election, because it had become so uniformly of one mind in rooting against Obama. And make no mistake, I’m no fan of Obama, and I have deep affection for Hillary Clinton.
It was a hearbreaking election, and the country is deeply divided, contrary to all the Obamaphiles’ declarations of how he’s “bringing us all together.” But I am willing, like you and Larry, to hope that the coming administration is not a disaster. Hating Obama is one thing; wanting to see him fail is tempered by hoping his failures don’t impact the country negatively.
I agree completely that diversity of opinions at No Quarter is a strong asset. It would be, as you point out, pretty boring if it was a one-note blog. I welcome dissenting views. It keeps it interesting. And I also like the variety of posts, not all being political in nature. I think that can be a real strength for NQ. In fact, I think it’s essential… speaking for myself only.
I have some surprises in store in that regard.
I hope it won’t make me hungry, like your recent stuff!
Obama has absolutely no idea of what to do in the Middle East. He has less experience than anyone they mentioned. They all need to get a life. The world simply doesn’t revolve around them.
Honestly I feel Hillary and Obama complement each other, they are two people that will say anything about the other to suit the moment, then quickly as fast as you can wink change their story and say how wonderful they each are, if they feel they can benefit from the praise.
I don’t feel any upset if Obama appoints a watchdog over Hillary or even if he leaves her as SOS with nothing to do but count the cobwebs on the ceiling, she looked for that position, its not like she did not have any other options, this is what she picked so if if does not work out for her she has no one to blame but herself.
One morning Hillary is going to wake up and understand that Obama will not give her any position to enhance her prospect of ever becoming President, all this is to keep her right where he wants her, to me she is just another educated silly woman, that let a man slick like Obama get the better of her, how sad because I expected a lot more from her.
Don’t feed the troll.
Thank you for reminding me —
but this isn’t a F***King marriage — to say that they “compliment each other” — is one of the most sexist comments yet.
Every single troll is a sexist pig.
Why the hell do the trolls still come here?
I don’t go to troll central and drop crap.
Trolls are stalkers — potentially dangerous.
I lost absolutely no friends over the Hillary/Obama conundrum. We just stopped discussing the issue. And I’ve had Repub friends for years!
OMG you’re almost as special as O’pampers!
Guess I could have done that too but I couldn’t stand the 5000 pound pink elephant under the rug…It let me separate the wheat from the chaff though. Guess we weren’t great friends after all.
You know I guess Obama finally did some research and determined the Bill Clinton years were not that bad after all. The 1990’s was probably when Obama was doing illegal drugs and having possible decadent sexual adventures in a back seat of a limo Many of Obama’s group are uniformed losers with no knowledge of the historic Clinton economic policy which includes a balanced budget, the greatest economic expansion in the history of the country, with the lowest African American unemployment in the history of the country.
I am a lifelong Democrat and a Party insider. After doing my own research on Obama, I simply could not vote for him. I know he is not a U.S. citizen. My family and friends think I am crazy as they know what a staunch Democrat I have been for 20 years. I have lost about 12 friends through all of this, mostly my political friends through former work with the Democratic Party. I am saddened by this, but hope when SCOTUS rules in favor of making Obama show his vault version of his birth certificate and open up his college records, I will be redeemed. I will lost some friends if it mean I protect the Constitution.
I walked away from the Democratic party and many of my associates. I even got run off my own blog Democratswrite.com. I have been accused of being a racist. A funny thing happened today. I was talking to a black client. He starts crying that everybody is out to get him. I said wait a minute I don’t want to hear that black victim rant. We now have a black president. He laughed and said Barack had screwed up everything. He said hell, I can’t even play the race card anymore.
I was at lunch today with one of the few friends I have in Hollywood, who actually posts HERE, that OI see exactly eye to eye with. I told her that the one good thing is that I no longer have to be PC about AAs. If they give me crap, I give it back now. To me, the world has become colorless and I no longer have to accept people abusing me “because they’re black and it’s all my fault they are poor.” That’s done with. So, next time some biotch in customer service gives me attitude, she gets it back and ten times more. I won’t hold my tongue. Thank God. Thank you Fraudbama. We’re all equal now. And the bad news is that Fraudbama has as much intention of helping his own AAs as he has of actually doing any work whatsoever. ROFLMAO. Oh well. Buh Bye to that “victim” crap.
I heard the other day that O is beinning to spread the wealth around. According to the story, he bought MO a $30,000 piece of jewelry. Now that really sends a message to those people whose houses have been foreclosed, who were bussed in from homeless shelters to vote for him, etc. Who needs a $30,000 fob?
That Women interviewer is boorish too. Her smirking and slamming Hillary was boorish. Who puts these creeps on TV?
Obama stole this election from Hillary. There will never be any going back to erase that. Obama will be a 4 year president and Hillary can run for the Senate again. Personally, I can’t stand Obama and his lack of personal ethics and lack of integrity. BITE IT OBAMA>>>BITE THE BIG ONE BUDDY…slop that bone…BITE THE BONE..LARRY Sinclair will let you. YOU F’n down lo schizo..Straights who do the down low irk me.
Take your meds …Secret service will run and get your psychotropic prescription filled anytime you need them..BONEHEAD!
If the country wasn’t in such trouble with BLOBACKOBAMA at the helm, Hillary would have said no to SOS.
Do you get the feeling that he’s just putting the Clinton administration back in place and trying to pretend that the government can be on Cruise Control? As I mentioned earlier, he’s a designator.
The idea that he’d appoint an envoy to Israel with a different position than his SOS and ask him to report directly to him is not the way to run the office. Sounds as if it could create havoc.
However, he does have this sick neurotic side that sets people up in that game called “Let’s you and him fight” while he stands off to the side and watches. Passive aggressive little twit that he is…
This time though it’s serious and he doesn’t seem to know it.
Jeff Rense is a little too conservative/tin foil hat for me, but he’s interviewing the author of “Obama: the Postmodern Coup” right now, a good listen:
http://www.rense.com/general57/notice.htm
It’s very difficult for me to have friends who I have zero respect for. I have zero respect for ANYONE who voted for Fraudbama. ZERO. So, yeah, I’m having a hard time with the friends thing. I am sure things will blow over with some, not so much with others. I don’t care. Anyone who voted for Fraudbama is a traitor in my eyes and that’s just how it goes. If I lose friends, fine. At this moment the thing I am most concerned about is how quickly we can get Fraudbama out of the WH, or KEEP him from getting there. The rest of it is nonsense.
Think-tank comments on Iran worry Israel
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1227702420961&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter
Read this in conjunction with this interview, also linked above:
A conversation with Richard Haass and Martin Indyk
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/9686
Ron,
I share your ddeep concern. Note that even Haas&Indyk say in that interview how bad it would be for any envoy to bypass HRC and report to Bo directly!!
I was also a bit nervous about some of the issues they discuss (eg Golan Heights!!) but I got the impression Indyk walk around but suggested military action if Iran begins to arm a nuclear weapon… (even if yes he tried to say later than there was always time to “undo” such a bomb even afterwards puting but didn’t sound too convincing).
Brezinski&Scowcroft seems worse to me….
Low level talks w/Iran are to be expected imo ( BO said during the campaign he wanted to go HIMSELF w/o preconditions …That was quite silly)
The Israelis are not stupid w/Syria. As you know the
IAEA recently announced that the Syria site bombed by Israel in 9/07 bore features of nuclear reactor
and that amounts of uranium particles were found at the site by inspectors.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1038934.html
Israelis also wonder about Gen. Jones (b/c of his “international force” idea for the West Bank)…
If HRC is not at the center of any Middle East process I would be very worried.
I also disagree w/Indyk re. the US and Israel being on different timetables as in the US can afford letting Iran go nuclear and then try to convince Iran to disarm…
It will never work; it would be worse than w/North Korea.
I also don’t understand the 2-3 years comment from Indyk in the JPost. On Charlie Rose they said Iran already has the enriched uranium to arm 1 bomb. And that the question is whether they do as Japan and never arm it or arm it and test it.
Whatever else they are missing why would it need 2-3 years once they have the full amount of uranium… ?
It does lead to some silly stuff. One of my friends, upon hearing that I had cut off contact with two people who became abusive about my leaving the party, really avoided the topic like the plague.
One morning when we were all out having breakfast (visiting Hollywoodites) her daughter said to me…out of the blue “but we’re still pro-choice, right?” It gave me great pleasure to tell her “Yes, even Sarah Palin’s choice.” Silence…nothing since.
WOW! I love that. Thank You! It’s going to take all of us to keep speaking up. The ignorance is sickening.
Charlie Rose is so in the tank for Blabama that I can’t stand to watch him anymore. He gets on my nerves. I have no use for shallow voters. My how my world has changed. Think of how many voters and lurkers are fooled by Blabama’s phoney intelligence. I guess they did choose to project their own needs and perceptions onto this empty slate, non-citizen. Hey, but sexism is alive. A stupid man got the job over genius women. This has to stop!
Hillary loyalists will not forget. Blabama is using her again for her voters. And she can’t say no because the country needs her.
Charlie Rose may be annoying as hell and getting old but he’s not quite in the tank.
How do you explain the hot flashes he gets when he utters Obama’s name? His face gets red as a beet, his hair wilts onto his face from all the steam and he leans into the table and shakes his knees together. I’m not the only one who is aware of this.
obama definitely got extra credit points on his intelligence from just about everybody, for being a black male; hillary, on the other hand, was penalized for being a woman. i don’t suppose we should be surprised; being female is considered a negative qualification that a woman has to “make up for” with extra qualifications and experience.
I could not watch that Al Jazeera video in full. This type of conversation makes me sick. Here we have someone with no resume either on the domestic or foreign policy front elected to be President and they go shredding her to pieces.
I was channel surfing last night and stopped in on Olbermann discussing Palin, the GA election, etc. They were discussing her various paths to the WH.
Olbermann actually criticized Palin if she became a Senator that she would esssentially have to start running for President immediately.
Um….like Obama did!!?
Geez….how he can say that with a straight face is amazing.
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Intersting article…2 days to SCOTUS conference of Denofrio case…Hmmmm…..
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Hitchens is a raving misogynist, all he ever does is spew his hatred of any woman with any kind of power. Someone ought to investigate his background and find out where his psychotic level of misogyny comes from.
Ummmm, no woman with any dignity would be caught dead seen with him?
I am not sure why, after thinking about what friends and aquaintences have slipped away, some in unfortunate and stubborn ways over the last 18 months. This came to mind when I relized it wasn’t that I had , but more over; why?
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Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863
Teak — Thank you for this. This is the first time I have read this as a woman fearing for the continued exploitation and oppression of women by the ‘winners’ in this awful DNC war. What I take from this, and I thank you for creating an opportunity for me to see this, is that everyone who has been involved in this epic gender struggle this season has consecrated space in the US to an issue that really profoundly permeates our existence as a nation and that, even with the sacrifice of so much, is not yet resolved. And that the issue — gender respect, gender equity, call it what you will — can only be resolved by how we live from here on out.
The differences are horrifying, however. We go forward with no physical space showing what has happened, no new constitutional clauses, no new call to equality for all, no new to-do list to eradicate the deep injustices of the past — we go forward with a vast and still-contested accumulation of cultural evidence still floating around in bits and bytes, our feelings and new knowledges, and ambiguous uncertain gains and goals.
But I am committed to living as if gender issues will not always take second (or 1000th) place to everything else people do.
PUMA!!
I had not quite thought of the address in that light, but I agree.
The ease at which one can internaize a reason to stuggle and loose sight of the WHY part…all to easy.
I can’t watch this video because I am at the office but the caption did catch my attention: “Critics: Obama is purging many of his advisers to accommodate Clinton.”
I noted in comments yesterday that the msm has a profound hatred of the Clintons – so much so that they will use any situation to frame her as a monster (”purge”) in order to promote the population’s hatred of her. This vicious objective overrides any responsibility they have to not undermine with slander our government’s success and world peace, or their championship of Barack Obama. I think it is best to recognize the msm for what it is and certainly not credit any of their analyses.