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Thank you, dnA.
This rocks and is ON POINT.
i do not think that one has to bow to people who don't show the slightest bit of criterium. women going on a stupid rant deserve the same credibility as men doing so: none.
I don't want her anywhere near my big, beautiful black posterior, though. Keep her away from me.
Lunch?? What the hell?!
These people are time wasters. Energy splitters. They want to be paid attention to. They want to take up his time and energy. They want their advice to be taken by Obama so he can replicate the spectacular failure of their candidate.
They want to be photographed with him.
They want him to wash away their sins, and make them white as snow.
They need him to make them feel less dirty, and selfish. They are thinking of their futures.
They are the succubus that comes in the night to extract the life force from Obama.
Run Obama, run for your life!
Joan Walsh does not even garner a response. Her articles are more of the same politics that came from Camp Crazy. This is more of these crazy white bitches wanting to make Obama bow. Holding their votes hostage because a black man won.
Joan Walsh, Hairy Ferraro, and Illary Crazy no damn well this is bullshit, but they think if they keep saying and people keep repeating it someone may think it is true.
I don't care much about what they called sexism especially when Illary was cozy with the inventors of sexism when she thought they could help her win.
These mofos have demeaned a race of people, attempted to use reverse physcology to call it reverse racism and sincerely want this black man and community to make them feel better about the loss.
These physcho bitches can kiss my ass and you guys should refuse to repeat this sexism is real bullshit because Obama HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. PERIOD.
Quite frankly, if I hear one more white female pundit say that Obama must respect Hillary supporters, I'm gonna scream! This whole notion of him needing to respect them reeks of racism. It's like they're trying to Miss Ann-ify him!
Not so long ago, one of my nieces was told that a kind of chelation on her elbow was something that black people might have. The response of her elders? "We're of Sicilian descent. What did you expect?"
Poor Geraldine. She's like the silly Italian-American girl who will do anything to be in the pep club--and she isn't going to be invited out to the country club with the good girls.
DJG.
Wow!
Rebecca Walker is urging women to turn the page on gender-based feminism.
KULA, Hawaii (CNN) -- Let's all breathe a collective sigh of relief, shall we? Now that we've got our nominee, Hillary can get some rest, Obama can read his daughters a bedtime story, and the rest of us can relax knowing our relative peace won't be shattered by another primary-related explosion.
Goodbye Reverend Wright and Bosnia tarmac snipers. Goodbye bitter working-class voters and hard-working white people. See you in November John King and the magic CNN map.
But what now?
Obama has gracefully accepted the victory banner, and a lot of Hillary supporters, especially women, are walking off the field as if they've lost a war. I understand their frustration, but the truth is they didn't lose, not by a long shot. Their candidate is stronger than ever, with 17 million votes under her belt, and the public discussion about the role of gender is more nuanced and compelling than it has been in decades.
The next woman candidate will have a better shot at the White House because of the tireless efforts of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
But with a Democratic house divided, now is the time for healing, and this can only happen if Hillary's staunch female supporters let go of the reverse-sexist ideology that women are inherently better, wiser, and more compassionate leaders.
They will have to acknowledge that sometimes the best woman for the job is actually a man -- if it's the right man. Obama's vote against the war, marriage to his female mentor, outstanding record on reproductive choice and a host of other progressive issues, and his uncanny ability to inspire people all over the world suggest he's just that.
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It is time to turn the page on myopic gender-based Feminism and concede that while patriarchy is real, so is female greed, dishonesty and corruptibility. It's time to empower the feminisms embodied by millions of women and men who care about everyone, including, but not limited to, women.
These are the feminists who wanted the first Clinton's welfare reform to include real jobs for women, with real wages and real benefits. They wanted trade agreements like NAFTA to empower female workers in other countries, not make them easier to exploit. They also want to exhaust diplomatic means before threatening to bomb entire civilizations to dust in response to hostile challengers to U.S. supremacy.
These people -- male and female, young and old, black, white, yellow and brown, self-identified feminists and adamant rejecters of the term -- move from a place of passion, hope, and yes, pragmatism.
They realize Obama will need to assemble a stellar team to move his vision forward. And they plan to hold him accountable for his positions on all of it: racism, sexism, socio-economic disparities, the environment, education, health care, a living wage and any other obstacles to the ideals of equality upon which this great nation was founded.
Clinton supporters aren't the only ones with work to do. I spoke at Harvard a few years ago on the necessity of ending divisiveness and relying more on the human capacity for openness as a baseline for true progress. This position is necessary not only in feminist circles, but in the primal fight or flight mechanism of our own minds.
As angry as some Obama supporters might be, as disheartened as we may feel, the only way out is to believe in the power of human beings to rise to the moral imperative.
Judging by the state of the world, we may not get another chance.
Well done.
These people cannot seriously expect to be courted after all of this public demeaning. Are they just trying to help McCain, or humiliate Obama? To what end? Do they expect Hillary Clinton to come roaring back in 2012 if they blow up this election?
How exactly do they speak for "women" of any color, including white, anyway?
No grace, no clear endgame, no discipline, no perspective, no class.
In fact, It was Joan Walsh who after riding her feminist high horse, casually mused that picking another woman would further anger Hillary supporters!
I wonder, are women paying attention? Surely by taking such a position, it is one powerful woman using her power to prevent another woman from rising. This is stunning to me.
And I watch each day while the TV pundits wax poetic of how Hillary has broken the glass ceiling...flattering her and weaving a web of deceipt.
Obama may very well want to put a woman on the ticket, but to be discouraged from doing it, so as to spare Hillary's pride?!!
There is smoke coming out of my ears!