Vote for Obama or...

[blzrul]

Obama has been rated the most liberal senator, even ahead of Bernie Sanders of Vermont, a declared socialist.

By who? The John Birch Society? The KKK? The Christian Coalition? Phyllis Schlafly? It's all relative.

[HereComesTheReignAgain]

Newsflash. general election is in November.

 

 

That is some useful information! thanks for sharing it.

[PastaJoe]

Misogyny I Won't Miss

By Marie Cocco

Thursday, May 15, 2008; Page A15

 

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 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 television and newspaper stories that make light of the novelty item.

 

I won't miss episodes like the one in which liberal radio personality Randi Rhodes called Clinton a "big [expletive] 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 Citizens United Not Timid (no acronym, please), an anti-Clinton group founded by Republican guru Roger Stone.

 

Political discourse will at last be free of jokes like this one, told last week by magician Penn Jillette on MSNBC: "Obama did great in February, and that's because that was Black History Month. And now Hillary's doing much better 'cause it's White B word Month, right?" Co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski rebuked Jillette.

 

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 a deranged, knife-wielding stalker who terrorizes the man's blissful suburban family. Message: Psychopathic home-wrecker, begone.

 

The airwaves will at last be free of comments that liken Clinton to a "she-devil" (Chris Matthews on MSNBC, who helpfully supplied an on-screen mock-up of Clinton sprouting horns). Or those who offer that she's "looking like everyone's first wife standing outside a probate court" (Mike Barnicle, also on MSNBC).

 

But perhaps it is not wives who are so very problematic. Maybe it's mothers. Because, after all, Clinton is more like "a scolding mother, talking down to a child" (Jack Cafferty on CNN).

 

When all other images fail, there is one other I will not miss. That is, the down-to-the-basics, simplest one: "White women are a problem, that's -- you know, we all live with that" (William Kristol of Fox News).

 

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."

 

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 publicly uttered a word of 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?

 

There are many reasons 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.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...id=opinionsbox1

[MattyT]

By who? The John Birch Society? The KKK? The Christian Coalition? Phyllis Schlafly? It's all relative.

Frommer's gave him a rating of 4 Hammers and Sickles.

[Sketch Soland]

Misogyny I Won't Miss

By Marie Cocco

Thursday, May 15, 2008; Page A15

 

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 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 television and newspaper stories that make light of the novelty item.

 

I won't miss episodes like the one in which liberal radio personality Randi Rhodes called Clinton a "big [expletive] 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 Citizens United Not Timid (no acronym, please), an anti-Clinton group founded by Republican guru Roger Stone.

 

Political discourse will at last be free of jokes like this one, told last week by magician Penn Jillette on MSNBC: "Obama did great in February, and that's because that was Black History Month. And now Hillary's doing much better 'cause it's White B word Month, right?" Co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski rebuked Jillette.

 

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 a deranged, knife-wielding stalker who terrorizes the man's blissful suburban family. Message: Psychopathic home-wrecker, begone.

 

The airwaves will at last be free of comments that liken Clinton to a "she-devil" (Chris Matthews on MSNBC, who helpfully supplied an on-screen mock-up of Clinton sprouting horns). Or those who offer that she's "looking like everyone's first wife standing outside a probate court" (Mike Barnicle, also on MSNBC).

 

But perhaps it is not wives who are so very problematic. Maybe it's mothers. Because, after all, Clinton is more like "a scolding mother, talking down to a child" (Jack Cafferty on CNN).

 

When all other images fail, there is one other I will not miss. That is, the down-to-the-basics, simplest one: "White women are a problem, that's -- you know, we all live with that" (William Kristol of Fox News).

 

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."

 

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 publicly uttered a word of 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?

 

There are many reasons 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.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...id=opinionsbox1

 

Like someone couldn't get their knickers in a twist about the monkey eating banana obama shirts.

 

Like you can't take a breath without hearing about Obama being a black man and how white working class voters aren't voting for him.

 

Obama supporters can scream RACISM. Hilliary supporters can scream SEXISM.

 

I like how comments made by some !@#$ media pitchmen translate into a "hatred of women as part of our culture".

 

Relax, Maria. Why don't u write a column about how amazing it is that a woman and a black man can be vying for the presidency? How it is emblematic about how our country can evolve and grow as a nation in its understanding of each other? And how this process is not "ideal" but will necessarily involve all kinds of people doing/saying all kinds of things in the process of learning?

 

Meanwhile, people like you will flip out over jokes, asinine comments that deserve no notice, and bobble head dolls and the like. Thank God someone is around to really notice the things that matter.

[Alaska Darin]

Misogyny I Won't Miss

 

By Marie Cocco

Where's your anger about all the comparisons of the current sitting President to Hitler, the Devil, et al? You got that tucked away with the common sense you lost oh so many years ago?

[yall]

Misogyny I Won't Miss

By Marie Cocco

Thursday, May 15, 2008; Page A15

 

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 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 television and newspaper stories that make light of the novelty item.

 

I won't miss episodes like the one in which liberal radio personality Randi Rhodes called Clinton a "big [expletive] 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 Citizens United Not Timid (no acronym, please), an anti-Clinton group founded by Republican guru Roger Stone.

 

Political discourse will at last be free of jokes like this one, told last week by magician Penn Jillette on MSNBC: "Obama did great in February, and that's because that was Black History Month. And now Hillary's doing much better 'cause it's White B word Month, right?" Co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski rebuked Jillette.

 

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 a deranged, knife-wielding stalker who terrorizes the man's blissful suburban family. Message: Psychopathic home-wrecker, begone.

 

The airwaves will at last be free of comments that liken Clinton to a "she-devil" (Chris Matthews on MSNBC, who helpfully supplied an on-screen mock-up of Clinton sprouting horns). Or those who offer that she's "looking like everyone's first wife standing outside a probate court" (Mike Barnicle, also on MSNBC).

 

But perhaps it is not wives who are so very problematic. Maybe it's mothers. Because, after all, Clinton is more like "a scolding mother, talking down to a child" (Jack Cafferty on CNN).

 

When all other images fail, there is one other I will not miss. That is, the down-to-the-basics, simplest one: "White women are a problem, that's -- you know, we all live with that" (William Kristol of Fox News).

 

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."

 

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 publicly uttered a word of 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?

 

There are many reasons 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.

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...id=opinionsbox1

 

You know what I won't miss? Your hero contributing to the problem:

 

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/...my_shirt_stunt/

 

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Iron_My_...t_Was_it_staged

 

 

People dislike her, not because of her gender, but because she is an !@#$.

 

I'd vote for Margret Thatcher's zombie corpse before I'd vote for that slimeball Clinton. (I know Thatcher isn't dead - but I'd still rather have her reanimated corporeal husk over Clinton.)

[Wacka]

By who? The John Birch Society? The KKK? The Christian Coalition? Phyllis Schlafly? It's all relative.

 

 

The National Journal.

[Bishop Hedd]

The National Journal.

 

 

What the phuck is the national journal?

 

 

Now about the Cocco article...What I will miss about Hillary is her future appearences on South Park.

[Wacka]

What the phuck is the national journal?

 

 

Now about the Cocco article...What I will miss about Hillary is her future appearences on South Park.

 

 

Look it up on the web Mr. Lazy.

[Sketch Soland]

What the phuck is the national journal?

 

Really? That figures of course.

[Bishop Hedd]

Look it up on the web Mr. Lazy.

 

 

Ok Mister Wacka I did. Not having seen this rag at my corner Willie Farms news stand I was curious.

 

According to Wikipedia this mag is aimed at "Washington Insiders".

 

 

I think that sez it all right there.

[Alaska Darin]

Ok Mister Wacka I did. Not having seen this rag at my corner Willie Farms news stand I was curious.

 

According to Wikipedia this mag is aimed at "Washington Insiders".

 

 

I think that sez it all right there.

Those would be the people you vote for/worship, dumbass.

[slothrop]

Dude, its Ruben Navarrete. He's lame and his logic is lame. Everyone who has an opinion on immigration other than full amnesty is a total racist in his mind.

 

Also, notice how he mentions black people vote for Obama, but white people vote against him, instead of saying they are voting for Clinton. Keep in mind Clinton was fully ordained as the Dem candidate in many people's minds before Obama came along. So by them sticking to their original horse (look no further than PastaJoe) they are obviously racist.

 

Also keep in mind that Clinton was getting much of the African American vote until the Rev. Wright thing turned into an attack on Black Liberation Theology - which many blacks see as a racist attack - check the polling numbers regarding African Americans before and after the Wright B.S.

 

People who vote for Hillary are not necessarily racist - only her campaign is. She claims she is the candidate of the hard working blue coller workers. Really, so the flip-side is that Obama is the candidate of the . . . . Oh, Hillary - you racist B word

[colin]

is anyone actually offended by the curious george obama stuff?

[GG]

is anyone actually offended by the curious george obama stuff?

 

Whether or not they are, people in the 21st century should be.

[colin]

Whether or not they are, people in the 21st century should be.

 

i can't tell if you are joking or not.

 

really? you find them offensive? it's just a little joke. people should suck it up and not get vaj hurt over every little thing.

 

if you're joking then HIGH FIVE!

[GG]

i can't tell if you are joking or not.

 

really? you find them offensive? it's just a little joke. people should suck it up and not get vaj hurt over every little thing.

 

if you're joking then HIGH FIVE!

 

Sorry, no joke. It's not even a nuanced joke, but a blatant exploitation of non-subtle racist imagery. Sort of like dismissing cross burnings as good form for marshmallow roasts.

[colin]

Sorry, no joke. It's not even a nuanced joke, but a blatant exploitation of non-subtle racist imagery. Sort of like dismissing cross burnings as good form for marshmallow roasts.

 

that's why it's funny.

 

do you cry when you watch dave chappelle?

[GG]

that's why it's funny.

 

do you cry when you watch dave chappelle?

 

I'm sorry that you can't tell a difference between parody and insult.

 

Why don't we have other opinions on the innocent image.