Bicoastal
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Sun May-18-08 05:48 PM
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You know what? There are probably--no, definitely--sexists who would never vote for HRC... |
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...but did Obama or his surrogates ever go on the public airwaves and say "There are a lot of males in this country--decent, sensitive men--who are not voting for Hillary Clinton. There's definitely a pattern there." Or words to that effect? No.
The Obama campaign may not have explicitly mentioned sexism in the last couple of months, but the Clinton campaign HAS mentioned racism--when they attempted to use it as a bargaining chip. "YOU'RE not racist, but your neighbors are, and they won't vote for a black man--so why nominate an unelectable candidate?" Now Barack Obama has every opportunity to use the same argument on Hillary--"You're not sexist, but those chauvinists next door are..."--but he simply never has. In fact, the Obama campaign has never used fears of a female president to prove his opponent unelectable, but Hillary has been loudly beating the "America isn't ready" drum for two weeks. Some might say this is simply being realistic--I call it opportunism and exploitation of America's worst elements.
And it's another reason why I laugh at the argument that Obama should apologize to Hillary for sexist attacks made by a third party. She's got plenty to apologize for herself, but you can bet neither she nor her supporters ever will do so.
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Sun May-18-08 05:51 PM
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1. Not when it's all about Me n/t |
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Sun May-18-08 05:52 PM
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3. There's a pattern emerging here, some "hard working men" just won't vote for a woman. |
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Sun May-18-08 07:17 PM
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4. bump for the hell of it. |
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Sun May-18-08 07:51 PM
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5. "She wouldn't be where she is today if she wasn't a woman." |
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Not just straight up sexism, bizarre crypto-sexism? :eyes:
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Tue May-20-08 12:29 PM
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6. And one more time-BUMP. |
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