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  • Who said, "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer"

    I agree that during the campaign she was remarkably racist and sexist. Both are incredibly manipulative. She is fantasic at what she does though, and brilliant. I think a lot of the abuse they ground through from the a holes of the GOP all those years made them who they are. They had to adopt an ''if you can't beat em, join em.'' I do love them ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by redneckliberalpostbush on November 30, 2008

  • The Spite Vote

    I enjoyed your article and found many points you made to be right on the money. In particular, I find the attitude of disgruntled Clinton supporters who say they won't vote for Obama to be ridiculous and thick with irony. Their displaced anger and willingness to cut off their nose to spite their face in the name of battling sexism is laughable. ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by s_eilers on August 22, 2008

  • Excuse me?

    ''.... but most of the coverage treated this for what it was: an honest expression of emotion and gratitude and weariness from a major pubic figure who—we all thought—was 24 hours away from a bad defeat.'' I'm quite sure this was an unintentional typo on the part of Jeff Greenfield, but it was just too easy to point out! That said, I think ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by Chenoa on June 18, 2008

  • hitchens is right

    Great article! Here's another one on a related topic: http://www.miller-mccune.com/article/430 Lack of party recruitment, not voter sexism, limits women’s presence in politics, according to a new study.
    Posted to Fighting Words by juan2689 on June 16, 2008

  • I'm a Black Clinton Supporter...

    and I will not vote for Obama. After the 2004 election, I decided that I had had enough of holding my nose and voting for a candidate I did not genuinely support. Sen. Obama may say he has similar policy positions as Sen. Clinton, but I am thoroughly unimpressed with him. I cannot stomach his saccharine speeches about ''hope,'' ''change,'' ...
    Posted to XX Factor by NewYorkNewYork on June 12, 2008

  • Hillary as Feminist?

    Although I am the same age as Hillary Clinton, I am as disappointed as Meghan O'Rourke in Hillary as a female candidate. Feminism frees both men and women to be authentic. It liberates us from the tyranny of roles, frees us from chasing the reaction of the peanut gallery-- but we must take responsibility for our choices, and not try to whine our ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by Rural Girl on June 5, 2008

  • Best exegesis of the Clinton campaign I've ever read...

    Thank you for this clever, knowledgeable, and hopeful analysis of the Clinton campaign. As an educated woman, I struggled with my support of Hillary Clinton because of her ambivalent feminism. To my mind, she embodies the gender problem of our age: women are liberated - free to be ''just like men.'' There's a difference between a strong woman ...
    Posted to XX Factor Extra by Azuresky on June 4, 2008

  • Seriously? This is a strategy?

    How foolish; how unbelievably naive. This simply shows those of us who support Hillary Clinton that the absolute hatred directed toward her is real, simply because she will not drop out of a nose-to-nose race and allow the crowning of a completely unvetted, untested candidate. Yes, you are calling for war alright: but be very careful what you ...
    Posted to Trailhead by mabelle55 on April 24, 2008

  • Re: Are Hillary supporters soon to be called "cult followers

    Not all Clinton supporters are cult followers. I'm a former Clinton supporter and I can see some of the reasons there are still so many behind her; especially the older women. Older women (for arguments sake say, over 60) fought so hard against discrimination that this would be the crowning achievement in a struggle against sexism. Younger women ...
    Posted to Politics by BP in NJ on April 8, 2008

  • Which is worse racism or sexism?

    I agree with the basic premise that asking which is worse is asking the wrong question. We may as well as debate if the Holocaust was worse than slavery. Its just as meaningless...and divisive. In fact its merely academic masturbation because the operative question is how to move beyond both biases. As a pretty progressive black man what's most ...
    Posted to Convictions Archive by slysly77 on April 3, 2008
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