Go, Geraldine Ferraro!
By NoQuarter on August 30, 2008 at 2:02 AM in Geraldine Ferraro
That was a great interview today, Geraldine (despite the audio problem at the beginnning). You were the first, and we’ll always remember you for that. And you’ll always be in our hearts for your bravery in the face of hideous and wholly unfair attacks on you during this primary season.
And I hope you got to read Geraldine Ferraro’s outstanding op-ed, “What Hillary Clinton’s women want,” published yesterday in the New York Daily News:
Hillary Clinton’s speech before the convention on Tuesday night was brilliant. It reminded me of the one that Jesse Jackson gave in 1984 after a very contentious primary, when his name would be put into nomination the next evening and his 465-1/2 delegate votes would be recorded in the history books. His speech soared with reminders of a historic campaign, thanked supporters and recognized it was time to move on as a unified party.
Hillary’s remarks, however, went even further than Jackson’s did 24 years ago - by pressing for support, over and over, for her former opponent, Barack Obama, and urging party unity as the only way to defeat John McCain in November.
She could not have done more. And despite what some of Obama’s supporters seem to feel, responsibility for a contentious campaign does not rest solely on her shoulders.
It seems to me there are now three distinct groups of Hillary Clinton supporters.
The first are the PUMAs - which, as everyone now knows, stands for “Party Unity My A–.” For them - and over the last two weeks I have received hundreds of letters from women who consider themselves PUMAs - nothing Hillary could say or do would move them. They are livid at the sexist way that Hillary was treated by the media, and even angrier at the Obama people, the Democratic National Committee and Howard Dean as chairman, for not speaking up against it.
They believe that sexism is larger than this presidential race, that it seeps into the fiber of our country and must be stopped. They are convinced that if the media had been racist against Obama, Howard Dean would have been shouting from the hilltops - and so would have Hillary. They feel the party accepted a double standard, and many have indicated that they will either vote for McCain, write in Hillary’s name or just not vote for President.
Those people were outside of Hillary’s reach on Tuesday night.
A second group of Clinton supporters is those who chose her over Obama but who consider themselves good Democrats and will vote for the nominee. They also would never think of voting for McCain, primarily because of two vital, closely related issues of their concern: the Supreme Court and abortion.
That leaves the middle group. These are the women (and in smaller numbers, men) to whom Hillary was reaching out in her speech. They were on the fence; some of them remain there. They were disappointed when she didn’t win the nomination and let down further when she wasn’t chosen, apparently wasn’t even seriously considered, to be Obama’s running mate.
They were not only a significant number of the delegates in the convention hall on Tuesday night, but they are also the blue-collar ethnics and older voters in Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Florida, who came out in large numbers for her toward the end of the campaign.
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Read all of “What Hillary Clinton’s women want.”
Gerry Ferraro will always be one of my heroes.
I heard her speak when she visited Washington as a VP candidate.
She also endured a press conference when her husband was having some sort of difficulties — the press were idiots — I lost a lot of my respect for the press. The idiot press kept asking the same damned question — and she gave the same answer. Each talking head wanted to be on tape asking “the question”. I don’t remember the detail — only the fact that the talking heads were idiots.
She has a lot of class and is a real lady — I will never forgive Obama for trashing her reputation.
Queens smarts. GF still tops!
Yes.
Ferraro is one of my heroes, too!
Why has it taken a quarter century to put a woman on a Pres. ticket? The answer is in the windbags of the misogynist frat-boy media types that pushed a fraudulent Obamarama to a fraudulent ‘finish line’ of superdels.
I don’t agree with Palin’s right-wing views. But she did vote to block an anti-abortion bill in Alaska once and also, she believes and used her veto to allow partner benefits for gays!
palin is not an extremist moron! She’s qualified and her journalism degree and Baraccuda basketball skills, and her being a mother–supreme qualification–are dynamite creds.
Now the Obamabatrons are attacking Palin viciuosly and the misogynist media.
WE NEED ANTI-WOMAN-HATRED LAWS FOR THE MEDIA AND THE SOONER WE FIGHT FOR LEGISLATION ABOLISHING MISOGYNY–WITH FERRARO AND PALIN’S AND HILLARY’S HELP–THE MORE PROGRESS WE’LL SEE ON ISSUES THAT MATTER!
SEXISM HURTS AS MUCH AS RACISM. BUT WE ARE NOT PROTECTED. OBAMA WAS PROTECTED. IMUS WAS FIRED. CHRIS MATTHEWS AND KEITH OLBERMANN ABUSED HILLARY AND GOT AWAY WITH IT!!
SWEETIE, KARMA’S A BITCH….NOV. 5 YOU’LL GET PAID BACK FOR YOUR COWARDLY ACT OF IGNORING HILLARY AS V-PRESIDENT!
JFK WAS NOT A COWARD. HE KNEW WHICH SIDE HIS POLITICAL LEGACY WAS BUTTERED. AND HE APPOINTED LYNDON B. JOHNNSON HIS ARCH-ENEMY ON THE TICKET AS V-P — AND WON IN 1960!
When Geraldine Ferraro was a court Judge she was famous for being brilliant on the bench!
Sexism is so institutionalized in this country that even “Progressives” and “Enlightened” people are blind to their own sexist beliefs and remarks.
I couldn’t agree more!
Gerry Ferraro is a class act. Hillary Clinton is a class act. Sarah Palin is a class act. Barack Obama is just crass.
America is so enamored of her sexism and racism undercover. Yet when racism against blacks came to the fore in this election, America collectively bristled and castigated the accused (without bothering to look at the facts). When racism against Latinos, Jews, Native Americans and Asians was brought to the fore, America collectively yawned. When sexism was brought to the fore, America collectively cried “shut up you old bitches!”
I guess the right advertising agency makes all the difference. Wake up people - you’ve been played (again).
To misquote…
No class, no way, Nobama!
Sweetie, Karma’s a bitch!
Now Ferraro can be the SECOND least qualified token woman ever nominated for V.P.
hmm..I mean….ummm you should be more concerned about THE most unqualified person to run for POTUS…Barry Soretoes-Obama-Durham whatever his name is….I wouldn’t mention the “e” word, Barry says it’s racist to mention it…I’d have to say your reference to it is sexist. Why are you a sexist yum yum..I mean ummm?
No problem. She can surround herself with terrific advisers.
Just heard that the Berg lawsuit is being served on Barry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkZEH2Z9Wvo
In your opinion, ummm, is there any woman anywhere in America who is qualified to be president at this time or any time in the history of this country? This is not a rhetorical question and I demand your answer. Has there ever been an African American male in this country in our history qualified to be president before BO? Again, this is not rhetorical and I demand an answer. If you answer no to both these questions, you are not only a sexist pig, but a racist as well because you will be admitting only white men are fit to be president since BO is only half black.
Obamabots are sexist pigs and feel the need to remind us of that fact whenever possible.
The Obamaboil trolls are not only sexist pigs, they are also not very bright. A pathetic lot, really.
“is there any woman anywhere in America who is qualified to be president at this time”
Hillary Clinton. Remember her?
I’ll remember in Nov, ummm, but I doubt you voted for the most qualified CANDIDATE in history without respect to gender, which was Hillary Clinton. I can smell pig.
To a ignorant sexist pig, NO woman is qualified for a leadership position.
But these sexist pigs love Michelle Obama, who will attack women in order to support her unqualified, sexist husband.
It’s not sexist to ask questions. It’s sexist to shout “sexism” when people have legitimate questions about an unknown person simply because she is a woman. Get it? What are people afraid of?
comparisons to Dan Quail really aren’t questions. But they do highlight what people are afraid of.
It’s not racist to ask questions. It’s racist to shout “racism” when people have legitimate questions about an unknown person simply because he is bi-racial. Get it? What are people afraid of?
most likely it was Michelle who gave thumbs down on Hillary. Michelle is such a Misanthropist and it is because of her that Barry will lose along with all the other defects (Ayers, Auchi Rezko, etc)
Someone’s scared shitless, we see!
It usually helps, when you lie, to lie about things that aren’t quite so easily debunked.
And you call yourself a Democrat! Wow. So I guess by your standard, Obama’s mother must be the worst mother of all time since she once scolded The One for playing with matches.
I would argue and say that your mother was obviously the worst. Maybe we should introduce you to Sarah Palin. She might change her mind about abortion.
ummm: Are you Obama? You sound just like him.
Unfortunately for you, Obama is the least qualified person ever nominated to run for the presidency.
Why is it that men who run the country must denigrate every woman to make themselves feel good?
In spite of being over half of the population women are still second class citizens in a country that prides itself on equality for all citizens of any race, religion or gender?
Why do men, and some women, consider women inferior? Is it a religious doctrine? We know that many religions do not consider women equal, some won’t even allow women in the same sections of a church, temple, or mosque. Is it that simple? Women are still considered “unclean” by some religions? Because we are the only civilized nation to never have had a woman lead us in spite of our history of women’s long and hard fought struggle for equality.
You will not find a more qualified male candidate than the women who have struggle in this country; from African American Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, to Senator Hillary Clinton. There is no woman candidate that would satisfy the male politicians if these two women are not qualified enough. And now these same men and women are criticizing Senator McCain for his Vice Presidential choice with the very same reasoning!
Even Moldova is more progressive than the U. S.
http://www.iwdc.org/resources/timeline.htm
I’ve been thinking that if McCain had chosen the Virgin Mary, the Oborg would accuse him of pandering to Catholics and say she was inexperienced because Yeshua was her first child. Then 2 hours later they’d switch that to say McCain was pandering to Jews and Mary was a “ho” because she gave birth to the wrong saviour.
The Virgin Mary has a thicker resume, centuries of experience and didn’t just have a flock of a little over 636,000 for only 1.8 years…
You forgot - she’s also dead, kinda like Biden.
GET OVER IT, OBAMABOT
FREAKIN OBAMBI WILL LOSE BIG TIME IN NOVEMBER.
HE’LL BE NEEDING HIS DIAPERS CHANGED BY HOWIE DEAN AND DONNA BRAZILE WHILE NANCY WILL BE SINGING AN LOSER’S LULLABY!
LANDSLIDE FOR PALIN/MCCAIN NOV. 5
McCAIN’S A REPUGNANT MAVERICK BUT WHAT THE HELL, HE SHOWED BETTER JUDGMENT THAN BARRY PUTTING PALIN ON THE TICKET! OBAMBI WAS TOO SHIT SCARED TO PUT HILLARY! NO STONES, THE LITTLE RAT FROM CHICAGO’S SEWERS….
GET LOST, OBAMATROLLS…YOU’RE LOSERS…
AND OBAMABOTS ARE JUST SEXIST PIGS WHOSE INTELLIGENCE LEVEL IS THAT OF A SEWER RAT FROM CHICAGO—EQUIVALENT TO HUSSEIN’S!
SEXIST DNC AND OBAMA CAMPAIGN WILL PAY FOR THEIR ARROGANCE, HILLARY-BASHING AND LACK OF POLITICAL SMARTS….NOVEMBER’S ON THE WAY..BOYS OF ALCATRAZ!!!
C.S: Be happy you’re not a Muslim.
(Islam has three texts that form their holy books. The Quran (Allah’s direct words), the Hadith (The oral traditions, later written, of eyewitness accounts of the sayings and doings of Mohemmed), and the Sira (written Ishaq, which is a sacrilized biography of Mohemmed’s life and the only text that is written as a narrative.. the Quran and Hadith have no context))
I present what Islam thinks of women as recorded in the Quran, the Hadith (by Tabari, Muslim, and Bukhari) , and the Sira (by Ishaq):
Tabari IX:113 “Allah permits you to shut them in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food and clothing. Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Qur’an.”
Tabari I:280 “Allah said, ‘It is My obligation to make Eve bleed once every month as she made this tree bleed. I must also make Eve stupid, although I created her intelligent.’ Because Allah afflicted Eve, all of the women of this world menstruate and are stupid.”
Qur’an 4:11 “Allah directs you in regard of your Children’s (inheritance): to the male, a portion equal to that of two females…. These are settled portions ordained by Allah.”
Bukhari:V1B22N28 “The Prophet said: ‘I was shown the Hell Fire and the majority of its dwellers were women who are disbelievers or ungrateful.’ When asked what they were ungrateful for, the Prophet answered, ‘All the favors done for them by their husbands.’”
Muslim:B1N142 “‘O womenfolk, you should ask for forgiveness for I saw you in bulk amongst the dwellers of Hell.’ A wise lady said: Why is it, Allah’s Apostle, that women comprise the bulk of the inhabitants of Hell? The Prophet observed: ‘You curse too much and are ungrateful to your spouses. You lack common sense, fail in religion and rob the wisdom of the wise.’ Upon this the woman remarked: What is wrong with our common sense? The Prophet replied, ‘Your lack of common sense can be determined from the fact that the evidence of two women is equal to one man. That is a proof.’”
Qur’an 4:43 “Believers, approach not prayers with a mind befogged or intoxicated until you understand what you utter. Nor when you are polluted, until after you have bathed. If you are ill, or on a journey, or come from answering the call of nature, or you have touched a woman, and you find no water, then take for yourselves clean dirt, and rub your faces and hands. Lo! Allah is Benign, Forgiving.” [The Qur'an claims women are unclean and polluted - worse than dirt.]
Bukhari:V4B55N547 “The Prophet said, ‘But for the Israelis, meat would not decay, and if it were not for Eve, wives would never betray their husbands.’”
Qur’an 33:59 “Prophet! Tell your wives and daughters and all Muslim women to draw cloaks and veils all over their bodies (screening themselves completely except for one or two eyes to see the way). That will be better.”
Qur’an 4:15 “If any of your women are guilty of lewdness, take the evidence of four witnesses from amongst you against them; if they testify, confine them to houses until death [by starvation] claims them.”
Bukhari:V4B52N143
V5B59N523 “When we reached Khaybar, Muhammad said that Allah had enabled him to conquer them. It was then that the beauty of Safiyah was described to him. Her husband had been killed, so Allah’s Apostle selected her for himself. He took her along with him till we reached a place called Sad where her menses were over and he took her for his wife, consummating his marriage to her, and forcing her to wear the veil.’”
Bukhari:V5B59N524 “The Muslims said among themselves, ‘Will Safiyah be one of the Prophet’s wives or just a lady captive and one of his possessions?’”
Ishaq:593 “From the captives of Hunayn, Allah’s Messenger gave [his son-in-law] Ali a slave girl called Baytab and he gave [future Caliph] Uthman a slave girl called Zaynab and [future Caliph] Umar another.”
Bukhari:V3B48N826 “The Prophet said, ‘Isn’t the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?’ The women said, ‘Yes.’ He said, ‘This is because of the deficiency of a woman’s mind.’”
Ishaq:584 “Tell the men with you who have wives: never trust a woman.”
Ishaq:185 “In hell I saw women hanging by their breasts. They had fathered bastards.”
Qur’an 24:31 “Say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; that they should not display their beauty except what (must) appear; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display them except to their husbands…”
Qur’an 24:34 “Force not your slave-girls to whoredom (prostitution) if they desire chastity, that you may seek enjoyment of this life. [And here's the freedom-to-pimp card:] But if anyone forces them, then after such compulsion, Allah is oft-forgiving.”
Ishaq:469 “The Apostle said, ‘Every wailing woman lies except those who wept for Sa’d.’”
Tabari VIII:62
Ishaq:496 “Ali [Muhammad's adopted son, son-in-law, and future Caliph] said, ‘Prophet, women are plentiful. You can get a replacement, easily changing one for another.’”
Ishaq:496 “Ask the slave girl; she will tell you the truth.’ So the Apostle called Burayra to ask her. Ali got up and gave her a violent beating first, saying, ‘Tell the Apostle the truth.’”
Qur’an 24:1 “(This is) a surah which We have revealed and made obligatory and in which We have revealed clear communications that you may be mindful. For the woman and the man guilty of adultery or fornication, flog each of them with a hundred stripes. Let not compassion move you in their case, in a matter prescribed by Allah. And let a party of the Believers witness their punishment.”
Qur’an 24:6 “And for those who launch a charge against their wives, accusing them, but have no witnesses or evidence, except themselves; let the testimony of one of them be four testimonies, (swearing four times) by Allah that he is the one speaking the truth.”
Thanks for doing that research for me, I have seen enough bigotry in my grandmother’s Christian church to last me a lifetime. And I still think that Obama got his opinion of women from his time spent in Indonesia where his mother became a non person not even important enough to be put on his school enrollment papers. And she chose that life!
Hey Umm
You’re resembling your pathetically, stutteringly, irreversibly moronic Obambi Leader.
Get a life and go play with Obamabots, sweetie pie.
Go play with the sissies in Obama’s camp!
Ok!
So when are the handcuffs going to be put on Soetoro/Obama?
First, he was only the presumtive nominee…well, now he is the democratic nominee for president.
Johnson said the republicans had the BC or COLB. Now, I don’t believe it. If the republicans can get it so can the democrats and so can Johnson.
Soetoro/Obama won’t show it except for forgeries on his website. So, about NQ doing their own lawsuit instead of only talking….
I’ve been reading this site for 3 months. And, something is always going to happen.
Then you decide not to keep updates on Berg v Obama. At least Attorney Berg didn’t just talk about it. You aren’t posting updates because you know that people will want to know why NQ just keeps us bouncing up and down.
Oh yeah….or it’s so great that you have started to put all these articles about woman….BS
I’m fed up!!! Just keep talking about what the MSM isn’t doing……..
he’s being served with the papers now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkZEH2Z9Wvo
Obama can trying to identify with the working America vote. He can sing songs from middle America and rhetoric his heart out. What people want are the policy positions Hillary was presenting as she went through her campaign. Why do they want them? Because they will work. Is Obama presenting them? For the most part, no. For him to win he has to adopt her policies and then convince people he’s not lying through his teeth.
One thing McCain has done for women everywhere is proving how sexist America still is. I hate his economic policies and think his entire platform is written by corporation but this pick is truly impressive. Never had I heard so much hatred, put downs come out fast except….oops, for Hillary.
But, the thing is because America is so sexist and discriminatory towards women, it’s possible McCain will gain some women voters and lose the sexist vote.
The difference is that the Republicans are more about policy. They’ll look past not liking her gender because she’s pro-life (and a poster child to boot after choosing to have a Down’s Syndrome child and calling the child a Gift from God when he was born), a life member of the NRA, supports drilling for American oil, and goes after government waste. She’s also the one that stopped the rather embarrassing Republican Bridge to Nowhere.
No, the Republicans will look past that and embrace her. Last night I saw Über-Conservative Bay Buchannan sing Palin’s praises (as Campbell Brown struggled to stop her from saying anything at all after she realized Bay wasn’t going to provide the bash against Palin that she’d obviously expected). Trust me; I live in a very conservative area, and Republicans were celebrating yesterday after the announcement. They don’t dislike women, just Hillary Clinton.
It’s fascinating how people can say “Republicans don’t like women”
Perhaps *some* don’t… but in any group of human beings you’re going to find that.. there is nothing about the Republican Party (which I am not a member) or Conservatism (which I am) that is anti-female gender.
I spent last night hanging out in Alan Colmes blog, LiberalLand.. you want to see some people who hate her for being a woman.. check out the Lefties there.
I cannot speak for all Republicans, but I don’t like any party that panders to race or gender exclusively. Obama’s Coronation reminds me why I hate such pandering.
More conservatives, that I know, are going to vote for the McCain/Palin ticket because of her. It matters to many Republicans that she’s a conservative first and foremost.
You need to check out is website - everything you are looking for is there. There is so very much there. He does speak to me as Middle Class person. To know that just a few years ago he was still paying off his student loans resonates a lot with many people.
Paying off his student loans? He got a free ride to Affirmative Action U.
I went to his website once or twice. It was basically the fallacious Fight the Smears crap, and a bunch of teenage girls fawning over how pretty he is (who knows - maybe teenage boys) and what a great couple he *sign* and Michelle are. Oh, yeah, and I read that BS he spewed about his FISA reversal. There were quite a few broken hearts in Mudville that day…
Geraldine Ferraro, like her or not, speaks her mind. You have to admire that.
The Obama camp doesn’t like her, because they have a hard time dealing with the truth.
They don’t even know what the truth is anymore.
Truth is kryptonite to them. So you see, it’s impossible for them to come anywhere near it.
Geraldine was very honest and right when she said early on if Obama was a white candidate with this lack of experience he would be gone from the election months and months ago.
Obama is being propped up by a Corrupt DNC faction of the democratic party pandering to the AAs to GROW the dem party.
If I was an African American knowing I was being used and abused I’d be off the Obama sinking ship sooner rather than later.
Obama DOES not care about the Least of us.
The Obama campaign hates the truth as much as they hate USA. If Obama had the Pinocchio syndrom he would be sniffing Moon dust by now.
OLD PROPAGANDA (08/29, early afternoon): Palin is laughable. A female Dan Quayle.
NEW PROPAGANDA (08/29, evening): Palin is a threat. Don’t just stand there– make Hillary Clinton get off her butt and do something!
I am interested in what Hillary Clinton has to say about this. I know what Obama wants her to do, so we will find out if Hillary is on Obama’s leash and trashes Sarah Palin or decides to put some distance between herself and Obama. Those who allow themselves to be used by Obasketcase will pay a price down the road. Obasketcase is a disaster, those who can get off his bandwagon first will be the ones who will rebuild the Democratic party.
right. she has to think like a pioneer now, and Sarah Palin and her own daughter, Chelsea, as the benefactor of her efforts. If i were Hillary, I would switch parties right now. The Democratic party has shown that it is sexist.
JohninCA
That is so funny. But the truth also hurts because all through Obama’s “historic” campaign that’s been the plan: Obama’s “nomination” in trouble, go tell Hillary to fix it. But she has no role in his extravaganza campaign now. He’s on his own. And he will fall on his own sexist remarks because he’s now saying sexist stuff about a Republican and they don’t have to play by DNC “rules”.
The misogynist nastiness against Palin is ramping up. I swear, if this crap keeps up, I am about ready to just make myself one rule:
Got a vagina? Don’t attack other women? You’ve got my vote. Period. I don’t give a fuck what your policies are.
That approach to politics seems to have worked well enough to give the 12% AA community a HELL of a lot of clout. Good on ‘em. I may just follow that winning example and try it.
That thought has been under this whole election process and what we kept saying is well Hillary is more experienced, she is vetted, she is stable and quick with correct answers and not error prone, she appeals to a wider dem base, she has this great husband who is loved far and wide by the people, but although that was the truth, and although she won more votes, she in the end wasn’t a ruthless thug who was willing to steal the election and she wasn’t propped up by soros, acorn, moveon and the FREAKS at the DNC elite. She also didn’t have the money machine and she also wasn’t pushing the republicans to be a dem for a day to beat her opponent… etc.
Maybe it should have all been about a vagina.
You are right, for the AA it was all about skin. I know that was largely the case because I did phone banking for Hillary and 9 out of 10 times when I reached an AA household they told me they loved Bill and Hill but were voting for the black guy, some of them didn’t even know his NAME, talk about frustrating.
One man, I recall crystal clear started crying after we talked for a few minutes. He told me he felt bad, he told me the Clinton’s had done so much for his community and he knew Hillary was being attacked unfairly and it bothered him a lot. So I asked if we can count on his vote? He burst out in tears and started telling me about his dead mother etc. clearly he struggled with his choice right? NOPE, he then asked ME what the name of the black guy was because he wanted to vote for the black KID. I said Obama. He said, no that isn’t the name. I said, yes it is, Barack Obama. He said are you sure… this went on, till somebody in the background said that sounded like the right name to them.
So yes, we should have just said we are voting the vagina ticket. We are over 50% of the party.
Forget that ob is a lying sack of crap with a past that shouldn’t allow him to be dog catcher, it don’t matter he is HALF SORTA black arab indonesian kenyan hawaiian kansan south side chicago corrupt.
The other thing that is SURE to infuriate me any day now is that we heard from the ob sexists how
“we aren’t sexist towards women, it is just towards THAT woman, it is just because it is SHILLERY, HITLERY, BILLARY, that we call her a c*nt, b*tch and tell her to know her place.”
Well, we ALL know the second Sarah Palin says one thing that might be used against her and twisted all out of proportion they will. And they have already revamped up their sexist machine engines.
It has a vagina, it cannot be VP or President.
Wait, it isn’t that Hillary was the candidate, we knew all along it was any woman. How do we know that? We have all had it done to us - our whole lives.
Thanks, I needed to get all that out! sorry for the rant.
Bravo. Well.Damn.Said!!!!!
And THANK YOU for the rant!! Brava!!
Actually I’m glad you shared the phone bank incident with us.
Last night I referred to Black Republicans and conservatives crossing over to vote for Obama based on his race alone. I can understand how people of color would finally feel validated by the ability to vote for someone not 100% Caucasian in a Presidential election, even if they have to abandon their core principles to do so. It is our right as American citizens to cast our vote as we please.
I even have a sense of pride that a man of color is now the top of the ticket, it’s just a damn shame that it had to be an unqualified and unvetted candidate. I always was for McCain due to the national security issue, and I believe he will do a better job of keeping our great nation, populated by a diverse and multi-cultural citizenry - safe.
I’m female, I never have cast a vote based on a candidate’s sex alone. However I will say that the Palin choice did lift my spirit and give me a renewed confidence and RESPECT for the candidate I’d already chosen. Karen: the groups who consistently vote identity: AAs, evangelicals, to name two - have never been shy about admitting their votes aren’t necessarily cast based on serious review and consideration of a candidate’s position on the issues, resume, associations, what have you. They have in effect given us the OK to vote for any female candidate we darn well please, based on her sex alone. Unapologetically, and unabashedly.
To quote WMCB above:
And they’ve been counting on our guilt to stop us from doing just that. The last 20 hours have made me get over my guilt. Right now I’d vote for a Susan Smith/Aileen Wuornos ticket if it would defeat Obama and the blantant sexist men and women pigs that are the DNC!
It was obviously not about Hillary. It was about Ovaries. So let’s have some, ladies (and gents) and send these arrogant asses back to the oblivion they came from (and seem to love so well)!
Grail Guardian-
There is also a HUGE group out here that will not vote for Sen Obama-
Its about putting country first-party second.
Sen Clinton was the most highly qualified candidate to serve as president of the USA. Now that the DNC tossed her aside-all bets off.
http://www.barackbook.com/
Obama facebook
My country’s welfare always comes first in my choices.
There is no way I could ever vote for a person that I know so little about-and to make matters worse…
what I do know about him really frightens me with regards to trusting him (Sen Obama) and his entourage taking over our US govt…I do not want ANY of Sen Obama’s friends, mentors, associates, campaign team getting ANYWHERE near Washington DC, our Constitution, our Bill of Rights.
This man is about political expediency-no moral compass-what will he ‘negotiate or give away’ IF he becomes president? He has MANY MANY favors to return if he gets elected.
Don’t be sorry, it was long overdue. You aren’t the the minority they portray you as; you’re the MAJORITY and it’s about time bigoted of any race or gender hear you.
Although Obama probably doesn’t know it was brave women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Harriet Tubman who kept the underground railroad moving, but then Kenyan/Indonesian Soertoro/Obama isn’t a member of the African American culture either; he only plays one to get their votes.
WMCB
KAREN FOR CLINTON
I read your wise musings…and I concur 100%
From now on question: Got a vagina? Not sexist to other women (i.e., Maureen Dowd clone)?
Are you fair and ethical? Okay, I’m voting for you.
Let’s start a PUMA 3RD PARTY NOW!
STOP MISOGYNY WITH LEGISLATION.
SUE MEDIA WITH CLASS ACTIONS
PROVE DAMAGES - GET A GREAT FEMALE LAWYER
ASK FERARO TO DO PRO BONO WORK MAYBE OR HILLARY
STOP MISOGYNY FIRST….BY MAKING SURE OBAMA LOSES NOVEMBER 4th
Nobama Vote ‘08
Pumas First
For months I heard the media knock Hillary Clinton as well as read vile comments directed at Hillary by Obama supporters throughout youtube. The same thing is starting against Sarah Palin. As long as people are willing to tolerate this, everytime a woman challenges for president or VP they will get picked apart.
McCain is friends with Clinton and I think he felt she got ripped by the Democratic party and this may have influenced his decision to pick Palin. This is it for John McCain, he will never run for president again if he loses. McCain may have had safer options than picking Sarah Palin — I am hoping Palin can step up and be impressive during the campaign and the debate.
Hillary’s remarks. Note the reference to HRC as the first woman to win a presidential primary!
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Incase you aren’t pissed off enough with this election season here’s a couple articles for you.
Free speech can go to hell according to obamabot Keith Olberman- A AP reporter panned the bambi speech and Olberman ripped him to shreds on air and said he should find a new job here
And this typical liberal article states that we are only a few women or as they put it “among some women” who are upset Hillary didn’t get the nomination .. they make it sound like we are only a few , so insignificant no one should bother paying attention.-here.. understand this article is not about that topic but the way they reference it, intentionally is annoying beyond words.
Send twenty dollars and eight cents (2008) to McCain, and on the line where they ask who recommended the contribution page to you, write in Senator Hillary Clinton!!!
I did–it wasn’t my idea, but I liked it. It’s certainly a way to let the GOP know how to win this thing, this year.
As soon as McCain announced Palin I felt Hillary’s whole campaign had not been for naught. We were heard and we were heard by a man who has been nothing but respectful and inclusive to everyone and understood our plight and didn’t underestimate our voting power.
He also chose a hell of a firecracker, and I admire that in any woman, she don’t take no bs from nobody.
She is the total opposite of ob. She isn’t about WORDS, she actually was above corruption and she actually fought it and produced results for her constituents and made their lives better.
Ob always takes the money and screws the people.
That is the only place I wrote in Hillary, when election day comes I am not wasting my vote.
Liberal for McCain/Palin ‘08. Chit happens!
I guess differing opinions and free speech are no longer welcome in the Progressive Party …
KO is a parody of myself. Has he gotten fat? He looks really bad. He might want to think at least about a larger collar size since the beginnings of unsightly flesh hanging over the top is obvious. Maybe out in the field they use different cameras and he doesn’t have the benefit of lighting, makeup and staging, but that axxhole Rush Limbaugh’s comments come to mind about not wanting to watch a woman age on television come to mind … KO might want to start looking for RADIO work ….
Thur. Aug. 28, 2008 Obama ‘wins’ the Dem. nomination.
Fri. Aug. 29, 2008 Obama loses the election.
Bwaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
That’s what happens to cheaters.
Cheater was one of the first words that Obama learned as a child in Indonesia — and I’m now thinking he learned the word because even as a little child he CHEATED.
That is RIGHT. I remember that video now. Wow, good catch. He was a cheater even as a child and of course they taught him that word first!
Why else would the word come up at all?
If the shoe fits, and it sure fits him.
Taylor Marsh…motherless sex industry investigator is taking pot shots at Sarah Palin.
Sarcasm on…
Yup. Palin is one awful person for hanging in there with a Down’s Syndrome Child.
Sarcams off…
And Taylor…your contribution to society would be…
To throw Hillary Clinton under the bus because you are an obsessed Democrat and Democrats must win at all costs even if it means throwing Hillary under the bus?
To treat Hillary like maggot excrement the way the rest of the DNC treated her? The way Obama treated her???
I am supposed to tolerate TM’s slams against Sarah Palin … why? Sarah would kick TMs butt in a one to one confrontation.
Taylor Marsh….
this one’s for you….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKCmKE7AP4g
LOL, a cuppa Cartman.
I think Palin’s foot would be her last weapon of choice on faux progressives like Toilet Marsh.
Agreed beebop, hey you are up early!
Palin’s one of the few politicians I have seen handling a military weapon who actually looks like she knows what to do with it (other than pose for a photo).
LOL!!!!! GOOD ONE!!!
The thing about Taylor Marsh is that she readily admits that she voted for Reagan in the 80’s; so much for her “Democratic” credentials.
How about Arianna Huffington touting the Republicans all throughout the 90’s.
How about Markos at the evil orange voting for George H.W. Bush in ‘92?
How about old Ed Schultz the schmaltzy fake Democrat from the “heartland”?
How about John Aravosis?
How about Sam Sedar at Air America voting for Nader in 2000?
[Pot meet kettle]….
Payback is going to be a bitch in a pantsuit on Nov. 5th!
I was doing a Google search for a Led Zeppelin song and accidentally came across this site. Sorry.
lol
can you believe these people?
This campaign was the most low class, no class I have ever seen. It made me ashamed to be a democrat after 48 years.
It was strictly ghetto mentality.
Before you start screaming racism ghetto is an attitude not a color.
The attacks on women and other democratic voters was disgusting. The faux new democratic party deserves to lose and the phony leaders run out of the party.
A real democratic party including all people and with sense enough to run qualified candidates that want the best for American must be formed
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMAS,BUBBAS, AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE
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Helen,
Ghettos (for all races, including whites) were common in Europe long before there were black slaves in the US. It refers more to an area designated for the poorest caste of society, and usually occupies the least valuable real estate that’s closest to the area where the residents are forced to work in abhorrent conditions because they have no transportation available. In America, they are not strictly limited to urban areas as much of the rural south could be included from a dictionary standpoint.
Like much else in history, ghettos are something blacks of African descent in this country have co-opted as their own and ignore that millions of others occupied them in the past. The main difference is that the Jews, Irish, Germans, Italians, Asians, Poles, Russians, Hispanics, non-African blacks, etc. have eventually decided to leave the ghettos through hard work and perseverance. African Americans are the first group that has (more often than not) opted to renew the lease.
I know that will set many off, but it is historical fact. Please do not misinterpret my comments - I mean no disrespect to the negroid race whatsoever, and have great respect for most blacks. But just like there are many flavors of white, there are also many flavors of black. You will not generally find blacks from the Southwest Indies or the Caribbean Islands (for instance) in ghettos (at least not for generations).
From a sociological standpoint, Barack Obama has tapped into this phenomenon and manipulated this mindset in ghetto African Americans into believing they are entitled to something that this country does not give away for free. Again, I know this will bring out the flamers, but it is true. There are many, many black supporters of Hillary and Bill Clinton, but from what I can see the only ones that have abandoned them for Obama are those who have bought into the whole Affirmative Action concept. Those that have thought it out have remained faithful to the ones that brought them to the dance, so to speak.
I have been labeled