The Dirty Words and How They Feel On The Clean Skin
By Ani on July 26, 2008 at 6:40 PM in Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Women's Suffrage
When I awoke the morning of June 4, 2008, I thought I would be bitterly disappointed. After all, the nominating contest between Senators Clinton and Obama had been decided the night before by a march of cowardly Super Delegates, bowing to pressure from the party leadership to forcibly shut down the process. Surely I would be furious or curled up in the fetal position crying my eyes out. That would be only natural since I worked harder for Hillary than I had for any presidential candidate – ever.
Did I want her to win so badly because she is a woman? No. Did I want her to win because she is an eminently qualified woman with a spine of steel, one who offers bold, progressive policies, is ever prepared, energetic, a worker bee and a visionary who is willing to roll up her sleeves to get the job done? Yes.
She’s my candidate.
The truth is I was relieved the morning of June 4th, even serene. I thought, since the race has been declared over, at least she won’t get flogged today. For the first time in six months, I wouldn’t have to watch, or avoid watching, the frat-boy media hit squad trash her mercilessly, simply because they knew they could get away with it. With very rare exception, no one, save her own husband, stood up to declare anything was wrong with that disgraceful practice.
But I was wrong in my assessment that the honor killing, the gang attacks and unforgivable disrespect to a sitting United States Senator were over. Pundits were wringing their hands, alternately furious and mystified as to why Hillary hadn’t just collapsed to the floor in a puddle the night before. Why hadn’t she gotten out of the way of the DNC power elite’s chosen messiah so he could have his historic moment on the stage to claim his crown?
Her historic moment was completely ignored.
Suddenly everyone wanted to kick Hillary off the stage. Actually, it was not sudden. The Democratic elites and misogynist male media, along with hopeless females like Andrea Mitchell and Maureen Dowd, who bond with their male offenders, either out of a need for self preservation, jealousy or self-loathing, had been trying to get rid of Hillary since before the New Hampshire primary in January. They rubbed their hands together gleefully after Iowa, waiting for her to be declared dead. Then she won – and kept winning.
Ironic that Hillary convincingly won two out of three primaries even in the last week of the contest. She did this with a false Associated Press story being released early Tuesday morning reporting she had already conceded – while voters were just going to the polls in South Dakota and Montana. Yet these media blowhards were telling us she hadn’t even earned a moment to celebrate her victories with her supporters who had been working for her faithfully for sixteen months. None of us, male or female, could contain our rage at this last stroke of disrespect. How politically idiotic, never mind thoughtless, that Senator Obama couldn’t wait one more day to have the news cycle to himself. Why ignore her? Why ignore the millions of voters whose help he would need to win the election in the fall?
The DNC, suffering from Clinton Derangement Syndrome, cannot understand why we hold her in such esteem and want her to lead us. Certainly we cannot understand why she would be tossed out like so much garbage. I have seen many women treated this way in my lifetime and been on the receiving end of some of this myself. The hurt is not lessened by time or age.
Senator Clinton’s candidacy is just as historic as his. Why is this never spoken of?
She is not only the first woman to ever win a primary, she won the votes of 18,000,000 people, more than any primary candidate in history. She won almost every large state, all the swing states and arguably had the electoral map in her pocket, yet the berating, belittling drumbeat grew ever louder for her to just sit down and shut up like a good little girl and get out of the way.
Hillary, will you for the love of God just get out of the way? Your success is but a mere inconvenience. And your 18,000,000 voters should sit down and shut up, too. Just pretend you didn’t notice that fair reflection and democracy were thrown out the window. Just pretend you didn’t notice that the far stronger candidate was kicked to the curb. Just shut up and sit down, will you, for the good of the party.
Perhaps you think I have taken this campaign too personally. Well, what is the correct response then, watching grown men, who presumably have wives, daughters, sisters and mothers, making comments about Hillary such as “it cries,” or the collection of quotations I will never be able to get out of my head:
A Super Delegate needs to take her into a room and only he comes out, that kind of scenario. (Olbermann) The only reason she was elected to the Senate is that people felt sorry for her because of her husband. (Matthews) When she is on camera, I involuntarily cross my legs. (Carlson) Doesn’t it seem like the Clinton’s are pimping their daughter Chelsea out in some weird way? (Shuster) We don’t want to have to watch a woman grow old in the White House. (Limbaugh) If she had any dignity, she’d just bow out. (Alter) Some women deserve to be called bitches. She’s Alex Forrest in “Fatal Attraction.” She sounds like your nagging mother-in-law. She’s like your ex-wife waiting for her alimony check on the courthouse steps. She-Devil. The psycho ex-girlfriend of the Democratic party. What does she want anyway? She has unpleasant ankles. That cackle!
And my all-time favorite: Someone needs to take her out behind the barn.
Even more unforgivable to the media it seems, is that she would actually stand before voters on flatbed trucks and in town halls across America and offer specific policy solutions. Why couldn’t Hillary understand this was not nearly as important as the myriad comments we had to endure about her pantsuits?
I remember waking up early in the morning of each successive primary, terrified at what negative press the day would bring, how they would spin the exit polls, what awful things they would say. The day of the Pennsylvania primary, where she was outspent 3:1 yet still won by ten points, listening to Wolf Blitzer and company, you would have thought she was getting trounced to the tune of double digits.
But Senator Clinton was not the only one done dirty in this contest. Her voters bear the scars as well. We were and are called racist, bitter, Archie Bunkers, over the hill, uneducated, clueless, shoulder-pad feminists and sweeties and much worse. Wow. We were painted with the same dirty brush they used on her.
Lou Dobbs and Greta Van Susteren stand alone as journalists who reported fairly.
I watched my own mother receive daily abuse in our home, a non-stop barrage designed to make her feel small despite the fact that without her strong work ethic and fortitude, we would have all been out in the street. Perhaps that’s why it was harder for me to witness a more qualified woman be figuratively defecated on in favor of an affable younger shape shifter with no discernable experience. Hillary Clinton actually won this contest by any reasonable metric and yet was declared the loser.
It is cold comfort at this moment, but I am heartened by the fact that millions of women and progressive men in this country are outraged that the stronger candidate was treated like the scullery maid, an inconvenience who should be brought to heel so she could drag this particular man’s inexperienced, unqualified behind across the finish line. Senator Obama was certainly limping to that line and if not for the mercy of the Super Delegates, he would not be able to claim the nomination even today. But for their weakness and lack of good judgment, this contest would, and should, be decided at the Convention. With everything in my power, I work to make sure that is still a possibility. Remote or not. To those who wish me to abandon my principles in the name of a convenient party unity, I say no deal.
How can I reconcile what feels like an injustice on so many levels? Are we to be deprived of excellent leadership because it does not fit in with the DNC’s back room fix and the media’s cozy little narrative?
Most painful is that we were all fooled into thinking sexism was a thing of the past. We have discovered these last months just how false a notion that is.
What kind of a message are we sending to our daughters when we tell them, you can reach as high as you want – as long as you don’t reach that high. What are we teaching our sons when they watch how this woman was treated and see no punishment meted out for such behavior.
When you demean one woman, you demean us all. Surely if the racist equivalent had ever been leveled at Senator Obama, there would have been hell to pay and many of these self same pundits would now find themselves on the unemployment line.
On the night of her victory speech in Ohio, Hillary Clinton said, “For everyone who’s been counted out, but refused to be knocked out; for everyone who has stumbled and stood right back up; for everyone who works hard and never gives up — this one is for you!”
Hillary stood tall in the face of ridiculous odds and opposition, undeterred by attacks that never would have been leveled at any male candidate. She taught boys and girls everywhere to speak up for their beliefs, to fight on till the buzzer sounds. I will ignore voices that wish to take away her triumph. It was and is an amazing victory. Those who deny or diminish it, or turn a blind eye to the injustice of the outcome, do so to their eternal shame.
Hillary Clinton will always be my Joan of Arc in a pantsuit. I know she will continue to stand up and work for the ideals and causes that belong to all of us.
The men and women of this country deserve nothing less.
The insiders, Pelosi, Reid, and Dean cannot get away with this. It was stacked all year and I am not going to take it. I had sworn not to vote for Obama but today I have finally gone all the way. If Hillary is denied, I am voting for McCain and not with my nose held. On many issues he and Hillary were closer and he does not represent the idiots in that party. It cannot stand that a stolen election from Chicago can win. It’s my bitter pill, but I spent all month getting here and I am decided. Hillary 2012
Right behind you, all the way!
Neither Hillary nor McCain would go to Berlin and criticize America.
America first.
Please add Craig Crawford to that list of Journalists - that makes 3 I know of.
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Oh please…when is this victim thing going to stop. NONE of this came out until it appeared she might not get the nomination. Cable TV idiots say things about the candidates ALL the time. hillary was picked on because she was the most well known. and you guys took the sexist theme and hammered it for so long and so hard, frankly, we are sick of hearing it. its over. she did not win the nomination on delegates….she knows the rules of the DNC and primaries and so do we. she ran a lousy campaign. i admire Hillary and think she is a great mind and a great senator. I do not think she is a born visionary or a leader…and sometimes those attributes are more needed in a president.
vote for mccain…that is the best revenge you could make to the DNC and Obama and maybe then your own hatred will slow down?
oh please, ellen… You should be ashamed. Come here and try to chastise Hillary supporters for not buying into the obama BS. You are the one who was bamboozled..unless , of course, you agree with Rev Wright and you agree that it’s OK to lie and pander and give away our 4th amendment rights.
Perhaps you are a vapid as Obama and are willing to let a novice and a product of the Chicago Combine become our President.
No Thanks. Obama goes down. I will work for it.
PUMA rocks and roars!
hey ellen — fuck you. And if you are, in fact, a woman, a double fuck you for being so stupid.
Oh, ditto.
Well put, Angie.
Amen, Angie. If dolts like ellen are so sick of hearing about the sexism, why don’t they just stick to the Obamaorgy sites like dKos and myDD, and stay away from sites like this one where nobody gives a shit what they think anyway?
“She did not win the nomination on delegates” - neither did he.
The Obamabots like to pretend.
But we know that Obama gamed the caucuses — he got most of his delegates from the red states that will NEVER turn blue for bamaling.
Clinton won — in all the true measures that will count in November.
PUMA
~”i admire Hillary and think she is a great mind and a great senator. I do not think she is a born visionary or a leader…and sometimes those attributes are more needed in a president.”~
No. You don’t. You think Barack Obama “is a born visionary” because he can parrot the words “hope” and “change”. I suggest you do a little research into Senator Clinton’s life. She was a visionary when she decided to work for Children’s Rights at a time when children had none. She made a clear choice to forgo some well paid position in a prestigious law firm to take this low paying and thankless task of defending our most vulnerable citizens.
She is a leader because she led more than 18 million, a record setting 18 million, to her campaign. Obama bought his votes with deception and lies. You can not steal the votes of other candidates, not just Senator Clinton’s votes, and claim victory. Nixon was forced to resign for the same underhanded tactics.
Barack Obama has no vision and no leadership attributes; he is an empty vessel filling up with the words, ideas and passions of others; from JFK, MLK to his acknowledged mentor, Rev. Wright.
So, it really doesn’t matter what your opinion is because what matters is that, in spite of all the efforts of both parties, we remain a Democracy for a little while longer.
And if it falls, you will have only yourself to blame for helping to build upon Bush’s 8 years because you believed in the little wizard hiding behind the curtain. But We believe that there is no place like Our Home whether the Obamas believe in it or not. And We will vote to keep Our home safe.
hello, wake up call,
The convention is in August. Superdelegates have no official vote until the Convention. Obama has NOTHING but the PRESUMPTIVE nomination, as well as presumptuous. Hillary, contrary to your belief, has not lost and certainly hasn’t lost on delegate counts. The delegate counts will be seen as the Denver Convention barring obambi rigging it to keep her name out of nomination, which they cannot legaly do, but will certainly try.
I heard tomorrow (Sunday) is supposed to be a big day for Hillary. We’ll see I guess.
Hillary Clinton can and will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2008. Obambi has been a good distraction for the past month or so, but McCain will be facing Hillary, not obambi.
Mark my words, it’s not over, not by a long shot.
Well, Ellen. Why don’t you go back to your Barry Hussein site and leave us alone. We don’t want you here. And frankly, as a lifelong feminist who has actually worked to get those rights we enjoy today, I am sick of women like you who undo all the rights those of us who labored so long to get. I wish I could think of a pithy and concise way to tell you what I really think of you, but since I can’t maybe you can mind read.
Ellen is obviously an O-bacile. The obots are running scared! They come on our blogs to spread their stupid verbiage. Go to your own blogs, you morons.
We can’t stand YOUR candidate (or you). The obots are trying to justify, WASTING their vote on an inexperienced part-time senator with nothing to his credit, except being a Chicago Con-Man.
You will never change our minds about Oblahblah…ah…ah…ah…ah…
Your BOY is going to lose “BIG TIME” in Nov. and WE will be dancing in the streets.
I love what you said angie.. Ditto That! : )
right on; ellen ought to go make some coffee and iron some shirts for the big boys at Obama HQ.
Hello? What unreality do you exist in, ellen? We ‘took the sexist theme and hammered it for so long and so hard’? Yeah, so you don’t agree that it existed at all is what you’re implying?
’she ran a lousy campaign’? Because she dared to tell voters exactly what her plans were for solving the myriad problems facing Americans today, and not promising vague notions of ‘hope and change’? If she ran ‘a lousy campaign’, why did she keep winning by big, even landslide, margins in those big swing states, huh?
Cut the crap about your ‘admir(ing)’ Hillary BS - you don’t, because if you did, you wouldn’t state these derogatory sentiments about Hillary and her supporters.
And I have to laugh hard at your ‘born visionary and leader’ piece of excrement - THAT is precisely what Hillary is - a born visionary and leader who ACTUALLY works for others’ benefit, who has a record of accomplishments in significant issues that have made a real difference in people’s lives. What has BH0 accomplished, pray tell? Oh, yes, his ‘born visionary and leader’(ship) qualities are reflected in his clearing the playing field everytime he runs for office - Alice Palmer, anyone? Can you name us ONE, just ONE significant piece of legislation or issue that your Con Man candidate has genuinely fought for? (Nope, speeches that were not even documented don’t count.)
Get your head out of that bucket of Kool-Aid and attend some Kool-Aiders Anonymous sessions - you sound like a pathetically hopeless cause.
Ellen you are clueless. If you “knew the rules” you wouldn’t be making this argument. Did Coward Dean follow the rules when he stripped FL & MI of 100% of their delegates? (Unprecedented and totally unilateral decision.)Did Obama follow the rules when he ran campaign ads in FL for weeks before the primary? (For this, he should receive ZERO delegates according to the “rules.”) And according to the rules, Uncommitted Delegates can never been given to another candidate–ESPECIALLY ONE WHO TOOK HIS NAME OFF THE BALLOT. They are supposed to go to the Convention as “uncommitted.” Do the rules allow DNC leaders to arbitrarily assign delegates to a candidate based on (notoriously inaccurate) exit polls, UNOPENED absentee ballots, and voters who MIGHT have gone to the polls? Oh, and then for added measure: the rules CLEARLY FORBID taking delegates from one candidate and GIVING them to another. And that’s just for starters. So take your tired and lame “rules” b.s. and shove it. We’re sick to to hell of that lie too.
And so sorry you’re sick of sexism. Tell it to the thousands of women who are abused and even killed each year due to such irritating misogyny. If you are a woman, you should be ashamed of yourself. Do you have sisters, daughters, female friends, aunts, etc? READ SOME FRIGGIN’ HISTORY!
And if Hillary is not a leader, then how did she attract more voters than ANY CANDIDATE IN PRIMARY HISTORY?
And visionary? You obviously, like most Obots, do not know her history. READ something. She brought Muhammad Yunus–the recent Nobel Prize winning economist who pioneered the use of micro-loans in Third World countries to alleviate poverty–to rural Arkansas THIRTY YEARS AGO to institute micro-loan programs that raised the standard of living by 75%. THAT is visionary.
Did you read her speech about women’s rights in China–the one she was told not to give? THAT was visionary.
Have you read her sustainable energy vision for the country/world? (You know, the one Obama has cribbed). Innovative AND pragmatic.
I could go on and on, but you obviously do not have the ears to hear or the eyes to see a TRUE leader. You fall for the con with pretty words who hasn’t actually DONE anything. The one who borrows from other great leaders (including Hillary), because he doesn’t have ideas or words of his own.
“you guys took the sexist theme and hammered it for so long and so hard, frankly, we are sick of hearing it.”
who is ‘we’?
I’m into the green issues, and I remember a few years back how ONE person, sitting at her computer, made an impact on the nations of the world by her relentless work against personal mines.
In 2000 democracy was blatantly assaulted from the right, this year, even worse, there was a coup from the left. No matter what happens in Denver, this movement should continue its work. Once the election is over, the work really would have just began - reach across parties lines, unite with other groups fighting for individual rights and freedom, transcend borders.
Talk to the hand!
McCain 2008 - Hillary 2012
Ellen,
You are wrong. Cable TV idiots DON’T say things like that about every candidate. How can you compare Tweety’s “tingling up his leg” or Lee Cowan’s “it’s hard to stay objective” about Obama to any of the trash thrown at Hillary? You can’t.
And how about the racist thing Ellen?? Haven’t all you obamabots slapped that nasty lable on anyone and everyone who questions obambi’s qualifications?? (Not voting for Obambi - you must be a RACIST….) Obambi is neither a leader nor a born visionary. He is, at best, an empty suit.
Ellen —
Your visionary Obama wussed out and voted for FISA to give the telecoms immunity.
Your visionary wants to further erase the separation of church and state and EXPAND Bush’s faith based initiatives (which sends money to Rev. Wright’s church).
Your visionary wants to EXPAND the death penalty.
Your visionary counts on thefact that you have bought into the cult of personality and you won’t notice he has NO REAL PLAN for the economy, gas prices or health care.
I bet you discovered Obama on MySpace.
are you a tenant in the rat infested places Obama and his associates stole money given to help the residents in winter????
You live in his back yard?
Oh you must be his maid???
Your voice is like a magpie churping in the distance we have heard it all it falls on deaf ears!
Go Back to OBEENIES sites come Denver thats just waht he will be so enjoy these next few weeks OBEENIE!
Hey Ellen, count again. he didn’t get enough votes. he didn’t get enough delegates. The supers have not voted yet. It’s just a presumption Ellen, he has not been elected. NOW YOU GET OVER IT and wait til this thing is over to start yelling at us. Go home to your own little blog. We don’t want you here.
Ellen: You sound just like Shrub supporters after the (s)election in 2000. “Get over it”, indeed. I’ll remember that in November as the collective whine from you lock-step bots reaches a crescendo.
Ellen you need to be refered to The New Yorker magazine article on your Precious. The best back room politics dealer since the first Mayor Daley in lovely Chicago-land. The truth could set you free if you’re up to reading the 15 pages of truth contained therein! Don’t balk, most articles are written on the fifth grade level-you can do it!
Agreed. Hillary 2012 or if the SD’s wake up sooner!
PUMA!!!!
Maybe this will help!
The MAD Doctor DEAN was NONE to happy with PUMAS in Charlotte!!! today! WNC from Charlotte WEST is NOT going lightly into that good night with Bambi! DEAN can GET OVER IT!
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almost time for PUMA radidio!
prplvette and I are already logged on!
LOVED IT!!! You do NOT want mess with any ticked off southern ladies. And I mean NOT.
It tickled me to think of the all powerful dr dean getting red in the face. Maybe some arugala to bring down that blood pressure??
Stacked ALL YEAR?
Are you KIDDING? They SET this insane end of AUGUST date (instead of the traditional July) so that their FIX could accept his “victory” on the anniversary of MLK’s I Have a Dream speech.
IN 2005.
The fix has been in for years now.
Yes, yes, yes, !!!!!
You hit it on the head my dear. Lets also include those of us who were called obsessed by our spouses for actually caring and making calls and blogging all day. Never mind that the intense pressure to collapse from within our own households made some of us fight even louder. Never mind that we were cheated. It is all OK for the sake of unity….well party unity my ass… give up the fight lay down like a wounded dog and let the next coming of Christ become President? My Ass! NEVER I SAY NEVER NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS IN DENVER NEVER NEVER NEVER THAT OBAMA! WHAT IS RIGHT IS RIGHT AND HE IS NOT RIGHT! READ EDUCATE YOURSELF STAY INFORMED!
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER AND POWER COMES FROM THAT KNOWLEDGE SO LETS GET OUT THERE AN EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AND PUMATIZE THE DUMMYCRATS AND THEIR GOLDEN BOY WHO IS UNFIT TO LEAD OUR I REPEAT OUR AMERICA!
My love for Clinton and my hate of the way they treated her gave birth to my website that I named:
Hillary Loyalist Now For McCain it says it all doesnt it?
Take a peak if you haven’t already
http://www.hillaryloyalistnowformccain.com
If not Clinton then McCain in ‘08!
PUMAs are the best
Indeed! THANKS ANI!!!!
You totally nailed it…no matter the ODDS and DESPITE THE TROLLS AND DEEP COVER MOLES (yeah, YOU know I mean YOU)…WE ARE GOING TO SUPPORT THE BEDROCK PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY.
That means all of you who had marching orders to post that we should give up on Hillary can kiss our PUMA hind ends.
We are going to demand democracy now, tomorrow, next month and the next and the next.
Ani,
So correct, on the mark, thank you. I’ll never get over it either. They yelled “racist”, in a crowded theater and continue to get away with it. YEt somehow it became almost chic to make fun of women, our bodies, our age, our being. It left a taste that won’t leave.
Hillary/McCain 08
Country before Party
Puma
I miss her! She is such a classy lady! Who on earth would have believed that not only have we allowed the job of President of the United States to become a joke. In all of my life, I would have never believed that a former first lady of the United States would be treated so disrespectfully! I am shocked. Until we get back to the President being something to be earned and respected, we will never get our country back to a superpower. Never. If we here treat it like a joke, why shouldn’t the world look at us as a joke? This is wrong. Obama is wrong on so many levels it makes my head hurt to think about it. I will not have some moronic, idiotic, egomaniac, unexperienced novice in charge and will do whatever I can to prevent it because I want America to be great again. Hillary Clinton must be POTUS, if not now then in 2012. If we must then we will vote in the Hero over the Zero because America deserves the one who will care for her and treat her as she was intended to be treated!
God bless America!
PUMAs, let’s make sure our first family is an admirable one again. Not a couple of cheating losers!
Amen. HRC would make us proud as President. She embodies all that is right with our country. On the other hand, Oblahblah represents all the worst.
HRC or McCain 08
Thanks ani
The bellow is off topic but I couldn’t resist the irony.
Wall Street Journal 4/30/08
–Now the world will watch and remember what we do here – what we do with this moment. Will we extend our hand to the people in the forgotten corners of this world who yearn for lives marked by dignity and opportunity; by security and justice? Will we lift the child in Bangladesh from poverty, shelter the refugee in Chad, and banish the scourge of AIDS in our time?–
Lift those in the forgotten corners of the world but not lift a voice to stop sexism in America, no, in fact wholeheartedly engage in it with the media. Disgraceful.
The most eloquent words he never wrote.
You are so cool, Angry Michelle! I don’t look at or listen to Barky but I did see the Bangladesh remarks and I immediately though of Cindy McCain.
Barky’s never given a dime to charity other than recently to that cult/church he belongs to so they can honor Hamas and build their preacher a home in a white gated community. Other than that he’s a cheap bastard.
Way back when I called McCain’s HQ because I send school supplies to a school in Bangladesh for severely autistic children. I hoped Cindy, through her charitable work, might know of a more affordable way to send boxes over because it cost me several hundred dollars every time.
I spoke to a sweet evangelical lady and she was so nice and when I told her I supported Hillary she said “good for you. She’s a strong lady. I think everyone’s rooting for her.”
They were so nice at his HQ.
I
Ani, you have written from the heart. Beautiful post. You’ve put into words what many of us have felt for months. It was Hillary all along. She is the one. Thank you, Ani!
PUMA ‘08!
Nobama.
Not now.
Not ever.
Never.
Great post, Ani. You said it all.
Yes.
The nearly 18 million who voted for Hillary weren’t all women and they weren’t all white. They are Americans who knew then and still know that Hillary Clinton is the best choice for our country.
Nor am I going to ignore this, it will not go away.
I made up my mind a long time ago I would not vote for Obama if Hillary lost, something didn’t seem right with him then and it seems my instincts were correct. I literally could not watch very much of the TV coverage of the primaries because it made me sick, but I recognized the shit flinging.
I am more determined than ever to do everything I can to make sure Hillary is in nomination and if that fails, to make sure McCain is elected.
I’ve always liked McCain but now that I have the comparison and especially that of the last few days, I know for a fact that Obama is a bad choice.
I feel the same way. I wanted HRC but I’ve always liked McCain because he was a thorn in the backside of conventional wisdom as well a being a genuine war hero. I’ll be voting for him if HRC does not get the nomination and thankfully.
My feelings exactly! I felt that same calmness thinking that it would be good to not keep hearing them trashing her so much. But then they kept on!
CNN and MSNBC have been just so awful Campbell Brown sickens me. And that Rachel Maddow! Oh, my goodness. I can’t even come up with the words to say how disgusted I am with her. It is bad enough how awful the men were, but the women were worse. I cannot understand it. I feel sure the reason the old men of the Senate were all over Barack is that they think they will be able to set his agenda.
I think a lot of people will be really surprised and not very happily surprised if he gets elected president.
Hillary!
Hillary!
Hillary!
Yes, I recall Hillary being mocked for speaking to the people from a flatbed truck and at town halls.
Yes, Hllary was called dishonest relentlessly by the Precious One and a complicit media - a gamble BO was willing to take. I know I won’t forget.
Never Obama.
Ani: Thank you for sharing this with all of us.
It is NOT OVER. There is no Democratic Nominee at this time. That will happen in Denver at the convention. It is NOT OVER.
There’s one more month for the Super D’s to mull over their vote. Who can win in November?
How can Ob and McCain be so close in the polls?
Ob should be 15 points ahead now.
Yes, I watched and ranted and raved about the Hillary coverage by the MSM. They all have been into the Kool-Aid. Michigan and Florida, if they were counted in the order of the vote, Hillary would have had the momentum. The women-haters took out their knives and kept slashing away day after day, and they continue to do so.
Yes, Hillary was outspent 3 to 1 and still won the final primaries, even after the MSM declared the race over and insisted that Hillary drop out.
DROP OUT WITH 1600 delegates? Ted Kennedy went to the convention 750 BEHIND Carter, did anyone ask him to drop out?
Our party has been split in half. Women have been degraded each and every day. But don’t give up,
It is NOT OVER.
EXACTLY. And all the “moderate” TROLLS who are thus far ABSENT from this dead-on thread, TAKE NOTE.
correct, and i hope that everyone who possibly can will show up in denver to protest. we need to show the country that DEMOCRATS do not want this unqualified, anti-american charlatan to be our nominee.
Being a man, to me it was never about the glass ceiling. I just believe that Hillary could get us out of the mess we are in. The Clintons are real people, sure they have some faults, who doesn’t, but they would have fought for the everyday American. We need a fighter not a poser. Obama wont CHANGE anything I have no HOPE of that. I live in Illinois, nobody knows that better than me. This is just another mountain to him. He is always trying to reach the next goal without doing anything in the previous one. It wasn’t until later that I thought about the fact that she could be the first female POTUS, and to be honest I didn’t care. I wanted the best person. I didn’t care if he or she was black, blue, or brown. To me Hillary was the best candidate to get us out of the quagmire we are in. End of story. Now no matter who wins McCain or Obama. I am afraid the road is going to be a bumpy one. What a shame.
Well put, Disgusted.
And the very worst thing is that even if we’d have GOTTEN the candidate who could pull us out of this mess, we’d STILL have had to live through another half year of hell to get her!!!
Now, the outlook is bleak indeed. So much suffering will seriously cut into the pleasure of the constant TOLD YOU SO reminders the MORONS will be living through the rest of their waste-of-oxygen lives.
Thank you so much for this post. It is as if I wrote it myself (though I could never have been so eloquent).
Beyond the disgust and rage I felt over comments from idiots like Chris Matthews (tell me again, what exactly has this man ever done to make him an expert?), however, is how no one of any credibility is standing up and calling this Obama’s bluff. I got sick to my stomach when I watch Joe Sestak babbled his way through trying to explain why Obama didn’t go see the wounded soldiers. Please Joe, do your fellow Americans a favor, if you have a mouth full of sh*t, say so. Obama didn’t go see those soldier because he couldn’t bring his precious media coverage with him. He does not care about those soldiers beyond what they can do for him.
I don’t know which is worse, having to live through that debacle called a primary, or coming to grips with the fact that we lost a chance at having a really great president in Hillary.
“There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.” Woody Hayes / Ohio State ——— It is my sincerest wish that all of us here in support of Larry, do all we can to cleanse the souls of those who continue to harrass, intimidate, threaten property damage and issue death threats to us. It is our duty to inform the American people of the truth about Barack Obama. We will continue on this quest to tell the truth, NO MATTER WHAT!
http://larrysinclair0926.com/
Yes! Thank you for describing it so well, Ani.
Creepy is the word that keeps coming to me when I try try to talk about that man, his followers, the DNC elite who have selected him and the media groupies who fawn over him.
I will NOT now or ever vote for this creep.
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madazhel
a California PUMA
Bravo Ani!
What a poignant, tender, beautiful, eloquent and heartfelt Portrait of a Lady.
Thank you.
I seriously think people are going to be shocked in November, when Obama loses. They have needed to convince themselves that we who will support Senator McCain are few and far between. They actually believe their own crap. Between now and then they will continue to behave like a textbook abuser; kind, then cruel, promises of unity, then threats, smearing us as traitors, racists. Suggestions of violence, acts of intimidation. We just need to remember in November, and help out locally for fellow Puma and McCain supporters, who may need rides to and from voting facilities. Or encourage absentee voting as well.
I really want to see the Denver group succeed, but I think all of the DNC good old Obama network is doing everything they can, as well as incorporating at a local level in Colorado. No doubt to try and quiet the voices of dissent from ex-democrats. I will do everything I can for the Denver group; and when the time comes,(I’m trying to be hopeful. After that) my vote goes to Senator McCain.
But will Obama really lose in November? We already know his campaign rigged the caususes. What’s going to stop them from rigging the election? They’re obviously not upholding democratic procedures, so they’re going to steal the election, too. There are probably going to ballots for McCain thrown in the trash, the number of votes for Obama will be totally fudged. Does anyone remember the Indiana primary? The state had already been declared for Hillary, and I read some article somewhere that had some quotes from some local politician(African American, by the way) in one of those towns that borders Illinois. And the guy was saying they were counting ballots and the town was totally going for Obama and the numbers were amazing like 5,000 to 2. I don’t remember exactly what he said, but it was something like Obama was winning 5000 to 2. And I thought when I read that, “How in the world is that possible? Those numbers don’t make any sense unless they’re rigging the primary and fudging the results.” So I know there were some criminal behavior going on at the polls in Indiana. How do we stop them from stealing the Nov. election? I never thought I’d hear myself say this, but we need Karl Rove to advise us on how to keep Obama from winning this!
come to denver and protest!
Ditto to all the above sentiments and the article. They may cage us in Denver to try and keep our voices from being heard, but they can do nothing in Nov to silence us.
I could not have said it better. Hillary has more compassion in her little finger then the whole lot of them put together. my daughter and I had the pleasure of meeting her at a rally and you can feel the warmth and sincerity in every fiber of her being. It hurts my heart to know that in our most critical time (our country)will miss the best oppertunity to turn things around and make this a better place for “all” of us, just so a “select few” (SD)can have thier way (puppet obama), only that don’t seem to be going so well for them, they can’t seem to be able to control him and god forbid they (sd)would admit they were wrong, they’ll just let this ass (obama) take us all for a joy ride. I hope they all lose thier jobs after obama loses in nov.
bert,
I wish I could have seen her too, but so wonderful you and your daughter were able to. Whatever her flaws( I have mine as well)I didn’t see that, and I wasn’t an “enchanted” supporter. She is an old friend to me, as I have watched her for many, many years. I can’t begin to explain the joy and admiration for her continued drive and ability to keep going, as well as a brain that is so sharp, able to relate her policies in detail at the drop of a hat. Yet, beyond what would be expected in rival campaigns, they hammered and hammered, yet she kept getting back up and kept moving forward. That to me is an example of strength and courage. I see the same game trying to be played on Senator McCain. Does the DNC not realize voters are all people, when you make fun of one, the group hears it. We were belittled for where we live, what sex and color we are, and now what age, you cannot get elected alienating this many people. You cannot get elected by pitting Americans against one another, particularly in a time when we need each others help; it isn’t so far in the future, you may see your neighbor kicked out of their home for foreclosure, or another getting the horrible visit from a military family services officer, or yet another asking for help because they can’t afford the gas to get to work that day, and so on.
I am always willing to reach out my hand, but I will be damned to reach out only to have it bitten. I’m saying I now carry an actual prejudice, and admit, I do not like to be around or converse or have anything to do with Obama supporters. Maybe that makes me bad, but the way I see it, you don’t get to abuse me more than once.
I trusted the party, I was betrayed, I am now done with trust as it relates to party.
Country First
you’re right about the age-bashing by obama thugs; about 50% of their complaints about mccain center on him being “old.” they clearly were not raised well; it embarassing, but understandable; when you’re only 18 anybody over 30 looks old.
The media and the DNC did all they could to belittle and dismiss Senator Clinton. Did they get the result they wanted? Perhaps in the short term but the unintended consequence of all of their shit made Hillary more powerful than ever before.
Go observation missE. I agree.
You’re spot on. Part of the problem is that the DNC didn’t understand/care about the depth of her support, much to their detriment. They will have to start at square one after their pretender-to-the-throne loses. They will come hat-in-hand back to the PUMAs. Then the house cleaning begins.
Thank you, Ani, for saying exactly what I have been feeling since the day Hillary suspended her campaign.
However, let us put things in perspective with regard to the historic value of her extraordinary run. Hillary’s candidacy was even more historic than BO’s because BO, besides being half black AND half white, he is still, nonetheless, a MAN and we’ve always had male presidents.
Hillary is the first WOMAN to have not only won a primary by the largest margin in political history, but, I think we can all agree that were she a man, it would have been she, not BO, who would have won the nomination, hands down.
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Denver Police authorized to act if “clear intent” is observed, “even if nothing has occurred yet. The Gestapo are ready in Denver. It’s going to be Chicago68 and worse. Is this what Obama learned with his masses at the Victory Tower in Berlin. Jon Stewart was right.
check this story
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/07/26/police-prepare-for-thousands-of-protesters-at-denver-convention/#comment-473137
What did John Stewart say? Tell me.
I think we all can agree on what we want. Dean says Hillary can get a roll call vote if she wants one. What does Hillary want? Has anyone asked her? Can anyone get an answer?
I don’t like that comment from Dean. What he’s saying is that behind closed doors these ratpricks will pressure her into “not wanting” a roll call.
These people really think we’re dumb. This is also a reason why I will NEVER get over what happened and will NOT support 0bama. They not only insulted Hillary on a regular basis, they insulted us. And they keep insulting us with their insolent, arrogant dissmissive behavior.
I am voting for McCain. It’s only a matter of time. And the more these trolls show up with their “get over it, she lost bullshit,” the deeper my heels get dug in.
The only pleasure this season was witnessing the continued stupidity of 0bama and his pack of thieves. These are some stupid people. And they are their own worst enemies. Part of the reason I’m so anti-0bama is because of them. And they won’t quit.
The only thing I suspect is that 0bama intends to steal the election. There’s no other explanation.
These people are too stupid to breathe.
EXCELLENT post. Truly well done!