Politics and religion.

[smokey the elder]

How about a woman with a Bible, a splitting headache, and 4 grouchy cats?
Scared yet?

That reminds me of an old Paula Poundstone routine about being President while PMSing. "You're starting trouble while I'm retaining water?!" she shouts.

[lizbud]

I was feeling kind of bummed about HRC not winning the race until I
saw this article today. Pretty much sums up the whole thing.


Keeping the pace to the finish line is a win for Clinton
Mary Schmich
June 6, 2008


Thank you, Hillary Clinton. Thank you for not quitting before it was time.

Clinton has driven a lot of people nuts by staying in a contest they decided should be over because they wanted it to be. They wanted her out before the vote in Indiana. Before the vote in West Virginia and Kentucky. Before Puerto Rico, Oregon, Montana, South Dakota.

And every time I heard the self-appointed umpires try to end the game while Clinton had a plausible chance, even a small one, I thought of a story one of my sisters told me a long time ago about running high school track.

Because my sister was fast and strong, the coach sometimes made her run with the boys. Girls running with the boys may not sound like a big deal, but in those days it was almost as noteworthy as a woman running for president.



So my sister ran with the guys. But whenever she reached the last stretch, she slowed down, which meant a boy always beat her.

One day the coach called her over and pointed it out. Girls had a habit of doing that, he said, but don't. Don't quit early.

Whether we've all consciously recognized it—and a lot of people haven't yet—it was important that Clinton not quit early.

For her candidacy to matter as much as it might, for it to genuinely advance the possibility of a woman as president in some year before the ice caps melt, she needed to keep the pace all the way to the finish line, even if she didn't cross it first.

Has Clinton been the perfect female candidate? There's no such thing, not if perfect means a woman who can command the votes and respect of everyone, or of every woman. Women are just like everybody else: We vary. So do our political tastes.

So, no, Hillary has not been a perfect candidate; some of what she's said and done has made even her supporters wince.

What she has been is a tough, smart, energetic, passionate campaigner who attracted almost 18 million voters and ran neck-and-neck until the very end.

That's as amazing and inspiring as the fact that she was outrun by Barack Obama, the son of a white Kansas mother and a black Kenyan father.

This week CBS News released a poll on Clinton. It showed that seven in 10 voters think her candidacy will make it easier for other women to run for president.

Seventy-six percent of Democrats said it would. So did 63 percent of Republicans. If she'd quit the race before now, those numbers wouldn't be so high.

"I think she changed forever our understanding of the possibilities of leadership," Gloria Steinem, quoted in the Boston Herald, said this week. "She showed such courage in the face of a media that was trying constantly to get her out of the race and all the misogyny . . . She put up with that with grace. She enlarged my vision."

And then Steinem—a famous feminist who had ardently backed Clinton—said she's going to campaign for Obama.

That's good sportsmanship and good timing, the spirit Clinton should display on Saturday, when she's scheduled to officially step out of the race and endorse Obama.

But if Clinton had gotten out much sooner, we would have spent a lot less time thinking and talking about women's place in politics. Although that would have suited a lot of people fine, we're better off for the discussion.

From here on out—absent some astonishing plot twist—two men, as usual, will be running for president. May the best man win.

But let's give some credit to the woman who broadened our vision, who showed us that girls don't always quit early.

[RICHARD]

Good article.

My opinion on women doing anything is this.

If a woman wants to compete with men, go for it. But, do not complain about getting dirty, literally and figuratively.

By the same token, the men she competes with should offer her the same competition that they would afford another man.

By that I mean, Don't slap her arse during or after a game, don't pull a strength move that she can't match, use guile, brains and a little finesse..
I have been in some of the most satisfying games (behave yourself!) with women when I have played-as opposed to trying to out muscle- them.

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Gals will always get the short shrift, menopause, monthlies, hormone comments. The most dangerous opponents to any woman politico are the AHs like Dean and Pelosi- the female basher and the old crow who can't stand to see woman ascend to something they can't or will never be.

They only care for end result, should BO get the House. The salivate over the chance to show up on the White House door step, hat in hand and remind the him about the color of lipstick they were wearing when they kissed his arse.

Ah, politics!

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By the same token -no pun intended there, god knows you can't say anything these days without someone playing the race card- I heard two interesting news stories/clips about women and politics.


The woman who called BO and 'inadequate black man'. I was waiting for the backlash of protest against the media for playing the clip of her saying that.
Nothing, nada, zilch.

Then a guest on a news show was asked about who she was going to vote for.....She hinted that her vote was going to BO becaUse he is a ROCK STAR!

WT Ever Loving F does THAT mean?

Why not put Mick Jagger in? Bob Dylan? Axel Rose?

We love our rock stars, but they come with a severe handicap. Drugs, alcohol, vapid personalities and not the best judgement.

Everyday I see a little more clearly.

No one questions BO is inadequate and a rockstar.

God, Have mercy on our souls, our country and the state of Rock and Roll.


AMEN.

[RICHARD]

Remember this little fact in a few years from now.

There is a heat wave that starts from the tip of Florida and stretches into the Mid Atlantic area.

In FLA there have been blackouts from an overloaded electrical network.

"I can't charge up my electric car to get to work!"
From on extreme to another.

Think about this when you vote in November.

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Oh, Hybrid means.....

Hey, You Bought Right In to the Drivel!

[RICHARD]

Ugh,

I am already tired of the effing election. And of the smears!

I heard this one the other day.

MO took her oldest daughter to see Sex in the City as a bonding experience. That is such a stupid story it has to be true.

Also, the Special Action and Election Group of Twelve that BO has hired to give him counsel.

Ahhhhh, win the election first......Ummmm, Ahhhhh, Ummmmmmmm.

[Grace]

Ugh,

I am already tired of the effing election. And of the smears!

I heard this one the other day.

MO took her oldest daughter to see Sex in the City as a bonding experience. That is such a stupid story it has to be true.

Also, the Special Action and Election Group of Twelve that BO has hired to give him counsel.

Ahhhhh, win the election first......Ummmm, Ahhhhh, Ummmmmmmm.

Would you please provide the sources of your information - thanks.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Please explain to me why some of the politicians are against drilling off our own costs because it will take 5 years to get the system up and running?

Seems to me if we are in this mess now, just think of the mess we will be in 5 years from now if they don't get off their bums and do something NOW!!!

Sure let China and N Korea suck the area dry when we need the oil too.

[RICHARD]

Would you please provide the sources of your information - thanks.

The new Laura Ingraham show. She made the reference yesterday about the SITC movie-I think it came from MO's sitting in on the View program. All the news programs were tauting the BO committee/gang/group/hangers on that he selected.

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I think that JM was in error when he mentioned the SK's drilling off the coast.

Anyway, we have ourselves to blame for being lazy and too politcally correct.

The gov't. can charge a tax or tariff and donate those proceeds to the Bureau of Land Management and the other agencies that take care of the land and parks....that should keep everyone happy.