Obama and J Wright

[texaspackerbacker]

I agree with you completely about the racism displayed by the Obamanation.

However, the fine line I was pointing out was simply that their petition wasn't talking about regular people voting for Hillary and that being racist. It was referring to super delegates overturning a seemingly sure Obama win.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I'd like to see these reforms:

1) get rid of SuperDelegates
2) no caucuses, just votes
3) winner take all primaries
4) black candidates run seperately in a process that makes them eligible for the Vice Presidency.

[hoosier]

I'd like to see these reforms:

1) get rid of SuperDelegates
2) no caucuses, just votes
3) winner take all primaries
4) black candidates run seperately in a process that makes them eligible for the Vice Presidency.

Could you elaborate a little on number 4?

[Harlan Huckleby]

it's a I'm pretending to be mad in a Geraldine Ferraro way that a black man has gotten too uppity. (actually, I don't think Ferraro was denigrating Obama as an affirmative action special, as some allege; I think she was making the obvious point that being black is a net plus in Obama's narrative, at least in the Dem Primaries.)

it does seem like both parties are happy to have a woman or minority in the VP chair. You get the good vibe without the backlash.

[Joemailman]

I think Hillary should drop out if she doesn't win the Guam caucuses today.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Bob Hebert checks in today with a column decrying the media focus on the trivial matter of Reverand Wright. "Lets focus on the important issues."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/opinion/03herbert.html

Three weeks ago he wrote an entire column analysing Clinton's "as far as I know" remark. He called it the dirtiest moment of the campaign.

I'm not sure whether Hebert is a dishonest propogandist, or he's suffering from temporary insanity. Obamamania is not a character fault, its a disease.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I think Hillary should drop out if she doesn't win the Guam caucuses today.

If Hillary doesn't get the nomination I'm going to riot in Denver.

[Joemailman]

I don't think a woman should be allowed to be President. Do we really want some raving psycho hosebeast going through PMS with her finger on the nuclear button?

[MJZiggy]

I think Hillary's a little old for PMS, no?

[Joemailman]

I didn't say Hillary. I was thinking more broadly in scope.

[MJZiggy]

What if she were a MYLF?

[GrnBay007]

I don't think a woman should be allowed to be President. Do we really want some raving psycho hosebeast going through PMS with her finger on the nuclear button?

Like men don't have the male version?

Men with the common cold: "oh my gosh, my throat is sore, I can't breath, I'm all stuffed up, my chest hurts, my body hurts, I can't get out of bed!!!!! Make me some chicken noodle soup (and serve it), go buy me some meds....help!!!!

Women with the common cold: get up, go to work for 8+ hrs, pick up kids from school, make dinner, take kids to sporting events, come home and do laundry and get to bed at 11. ....on to the next day...who has time for a cold?

...and you wonder about PMS?

:P

[Kiwon]

I don't think a woman should be allowed to be President. Do we really want some raving psycho hosebeast going through PMS with her finger on the nuclear button?

Like men don't have the male version?

Men with the common cold: "oh my gosh, my throat is sore, I can't breath, I'm all stuffed up, my chest hurts, my body hurts, I can't get out of bed!!!!! Make me some chicken noodle soup (and serve it), go buy me some meds....help!!!!

Women with the common cold: get up, go to work for 8+ hrs, pick up kids from school, make dinner, take kids to sporting events, come home and do laundry and get to bed at 11. ....on to the next day...who has time for a cold?

...and you wonder about PMS?

:P

007, when does the Lady Prez push the button....before picking up the kids or after doing the laundry?

[hoosier]

it's a I'm pretending to be mad in a Geraldine Ferraro way that a black man has gotten too uppity. (actually, I don't think Ferraro was denigrating Obama as an affirmative action special, as some allege; I think she was making the obvious point that being black is a net plus in Obama's narrative, at least in the Dem Primaries.)

it does seem like both parties are happy to have a woman or minority in the VP chair. You get the good vibe without the backlash.

Your first three points seemed completely serious, so you definitely FORGOT to include the requisite irony emoticon. I read Ferraro's comments as denigrating Obamamania--maybe not as an affirmative action special, if that means that Obama's blackness is all he has going for him, but definitely in a resentful kind of way. It's the old It's not ok to be racist but it is ok to be sexist spiel. She's certainly right, at least on that point, but that doesn't change the fact that her comment is pure resentment and therefore ultimately self-destructive.

[GrnBay007]

007, when does the Lady Prez push the button....before picking up the kids or after doing the laundry?

Anytime. She would carry a remote with her and multitask!