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| Democrat Fratricide: "hatred of women" is accepted in the Democratic party! |
| 2008-05-13 |
| Marie Cocco, Real Clear Politics WASHINGTON -- As the Democratic nomination contest slouches toward a close, it's time to take stock of what I will not miss. I will not miss seeing advertisements for T-shirts that bear the slogan "Bros before Hos." The shirts depict Barack Obama (the Bro) and Hillary Clinton (the Ho) and they are widely sold on the Internet. I will not miss walking past airport concessions selling the Hillary Nutcracker, a device in which a pantsuit-clad Clinton doll opens her legs to reveal stainless steel thighs that, well, bust nuts. . . . I won't miss episodes like the one in which the liberal radio personality Randi Rhodes called Clinton a "big f---in' whore" and said the same about former vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro. Rhodes was appearing at an event sponsored by a San Francisco radio station, before an audience of appreciative Obama supporters -- one of whom had promoted the evening on the presumptive Democratic nominee's official campaign Web site. . . . I won't miss political commentators (including National Public Radio political editor Ken Rudin and Andrew Sullivan, the columnist and blogger) who compare Clinton to the Glenn Close character in the movie "Fatal Attraction." In the iconic 1987 film, Close played an independent New York woman who has an affair with a married man played by Michael Douglas. When the liaison ends, the jilted woman becomes I won't miss reading another treatise by a man or woman, of the left or right, who says that sexism has had not even a teeny-weeny bit of influence on the course of the Democratic campaign. To hint that sexism might possibly have had a minimal role is to play that risible "gender card." As we all know, Democrats are just the most tolerant, compassionate, high-minded people ever! They'd never say something bad about someone's skin color, or culture, or religion, or sexual orientation, and anyone who did say something like that would be drummed out of the party post-haste like Kirk Douglas in the opening credits of Branded. Isn't that right? /sarcasam Most of all, I will not miss the silence. I will not miss the deafening, depressing silence of Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean or other leading Democrats, who to my knowledge (with the exception of Sen. Barbara Mikulski of Maryland) haven't uttered a word of public outrage at the unrelenting, sex-based hate that has been hurled at a former first lady and two-term senator from New York. Among those holding their tongues are hundreds of Democrats for whom Clinton has campaigned and raised millions of dollars. Don Imus endured more public ire from the political class when he insulted the Rutgers University women's basketball team. Would the silence prevail if Obama's likeness were put on a tap-dancing doll that was sold at airports? Would the media figures who dole out precious face time to these politicians be such pals if they'd compared Obama with a character in a blaxploitation film? And how would crude references to Obama's sex organs play? Ask Obama Girl. There are many reasons why Clinton is losing the nomination contest, some having to do with her strategic mistakes, others with the groundswell for "change." But for all Clinton's political blemishes, the darker stain that has been exposed is the hatred of women that is accepted as a part of our culture. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #12 I for one, won't miss all the popcorn I've consumed during the Democratic Party's primary season. Wow, am I sick and tired of popcorn. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2008-05-13 22:10 |
| #11 “…the hatred of women that is accepted as a part of our culture.” Will Hillary-Care pay the deductible for Misogyny Management classes? |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2008-05-13 12:37 |
| #10 Stranded! |
| Posted by: Gomez Gromoter7489 2008-05-13 12:18 |
| #9 ...the darker stain that has been exposed... She's obviously racist. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2008-05-13 11:25 |
| #8 I guess I did waste my RAM. Should have looked it up first. In Rifleman, he had that slick lever action. In Branded, he found uses for the few inches left of his sword. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2008-05-13 10:53 |
| #7 Chuck Connors was in both. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-05-13 10:47 |
| #6 Nope. Chuck Connors was in "The Rifleman", or, as Mad Magazine put it, "The Rifle, Man". "All but one man died, There at Bitter Creek, And they say he ran away... something something." Nope. Connors. I wish I had not wasted my RAM on that. |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2008-05-13 10:36 |
| #5 I stand corrected . . . branded . . . marked with a non-nerd's shame, even. |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-05-13 10:27 |
| #4 I stand corrected . . . branded . . . marked with a non-nerd's shame, even. |
| Posted by: Mike 2008-05-13 10:27 |
| #3 Hate to be a nerd, Mike, but Branded starred Chuck Connors. I'll always remember the sword-breaking, epaulet-ripping scene in the intro. |
| Posted by: Jitch, Scourge of the Veal Cutlets 2008-05-13 10:11 |
| #2 Or it could be that she is a grasping, deceptive, corrupt, person. Unworthy to hold the office of Senator, much less president. Gender NOT withstanding. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-05-13 10:04 |
| #1 I rather liked Gerard VanderleunÂ’s take on it, here. Basically it's one of those nasty high school cool-kid spats. Just for the record, I despised my high-school cool-kid clique with a cold and deadly passion. School spirit was for those losers who would peak at 18 and spend the rest of their lives looking back. |
| Posted by: Sgt. Mom 2008-05-13 09:38 |