The New Republic

Well, maybe that's because Emily's List was founded in the middle of the 80s, while the leaders of the first post 50s "feminist wave" were the ones who had to chop down all the trees in the patriarchal forest and gruelingly lay the foundation for all those who followed.

You think?

I was a Clinton supporter throughout the campaign [at least I think I was] even though she, Bill and Rahm Emanuel's DLC have yanked the Democratic party a lot farther to the right than I thought was necessary.

Hey, I'm not one of those who support the Republican party tradition of rewarding "the next guy in line" to be the nominee. And the only reason the GOP swung to Bush in 2000 was because they loathed McCain and there was no one else they thought could win after 8 years of peace and prosperity in the Clinton/Gore administration. Remember that? When some at TNR were, say, 15 or 16 years old? Indeed, to this day I still can't get over the apalling stupidity of Gore and his campaign team in not embracing Bill. Why didn't he? Because [from all I've read so far] of Gore's "visceral" disgust over the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal. Give me a break Al. That was between Bill, Hillary and Chelsea. The rest realy was the vast right wing conspiracy. Read David Brock's book if you want to get the lowdown on that.

No wonder Gore is now treking the globe raking in millions while pushing his inconvenient truth. The convenient truth truth however is that Gore can now concentrate on something we are all enormously worried about 2 or 3 times a month, while not actually having to pursue a concrete legislative agenda to close the deal.

Again, I don't think Hillary should have been corronated at the Democratic National Convention. But in no way does that make it legit that someone with a resume a couple of sheets thick on national and international stage, should have bulldozed his way to Denver on the sheer density of his organizing skills and charisma.

Or maybe Hitchen over at the Alantic has it right about Barack. Chris thinks that Obama entered the race knowing he could not win...just wanting to fortify his name recognition on the national stage.

It didn't happen that way though. So, like most other radical moderates I know, I really do want Obama to make me look like a damn fool by more than living up to all the hype. After all, even Rush Limbaugh couldn't have fucked things up.... and around the whole god damned globe!!..... worse than Bush. Still for me, until Obama's policies squash me like a bug, Obama didn't win the nomination, Clinton lost it.

george walton

- iambiguous

January 19, 2009 at 8:16pm

Alright Sewyard, what's the deal?  Thanks alot -

- Wandreycer1

January 19, 2009 at 8:55pm

One wonders whether we are going to have to endure eight years of Hillary revisionisn.  Hillary Clinton is an incompetent politician with a tin ear.  As senator from New York, she achieved exactly nothing.  Her "experience" consisted of serving as a nothing partner in a nothing law firm in Little Rock, AK.  Her nomination and election for senate that were pretty much handed to her when she drew Rick Lazio as an opponent.  She is petty, self-absorbed, has horrible organizational skills, and, in my opinion, has never given a damn about the welfare of the Democratic party.  Her major political achievement was making a wreck out of the Clinton healthcare initiative at the cost of the loss of control of the Congress for the Democratic party.

For me, who has only voted for a Republican once in my life (Sen. Charles Goodell, anti-war Republican incumbent), it was agony contemplating the choice between John McCain and Hillary Clinton, and that was long before I had any inkling who Barack Obama was.  When I opened the newspaper and read that he had won the Iowa caucuses, all I could think was, "There's hope.  We are not doomed."

You can trash and bash Barack Obama all you want, but, even if every criticism of him were true, Hillary Clinton is still nothing.  We will see if she can manage to be subordinate as Secretary of State or will quickly turn into a headache for the Obama administration.

- roidubouloi

January 19, 2009 at 9:11pm

Hitch is a drunken contrarian.  A provocateur.  Anything that he says must be taken with an entire salt-lick.  Looking to Hitchens for political astuteness is like expecting Stephen Hawking to fail a seventh grade math exam.  

- kgrant1054

January 20, 2009 at 1:15am

roid:

You can trash and bash Barack Obama all you want, but, even if every criticism of him were true, Hillary Clinton is still nothing. We will see if she can manage to be subordinate as Secretary of State or will quickly turn into a headache for the Obama administration.

George:

Do you happen to have the mathematical equsation you used to confirm this?

Oh, and on a scale from 0 to 9, If she is "nothing" what does make you?

gw

- iambiguous

January 20, 2009 at 9:38pm