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Does Unifying The Party Involve The Clinton Wing? | 222 comments (222 topical)
Not Just That It Disses Clinton (5.00 / 10) (#37)
by BDB on Thu May 15, 2008 at 04:53:20 PM EST
But it also makes it sound like putting a white man on the ticket is what's needed to win the white working class vote, as if that's the only problem Obama has, as if Edwards didn't lose the white working class vote to Clinton.  And he lost the white working class to Clinton because of women.  But, of course, there's no need to appease women voters, we'll fall in line like the good little sweeties we are.  Just threaten us with Roe and tell us we have no other choice.  

Screw that.  I have a choice.  Loyalty is a two-way street and if they want my vote, they're going to have to ask for it.  And even then they might not get it.  I am that angry.*

* Of course, these entitled men have no idea how angry a lot of women are because they do not think about us or worry about us as a voting bloc.  Just as the party leadership does not feel the need to fight misogyny.  It's a given we'll vote democratic until, of course, we don't.  The latest Rasmussen poll has 29% of democrats saying if Clinton isn't the nominee, she should make a third party run.  Any bets on how many of that 29% are women?  

2-way street is it exactly: Dems give me NOTHING (5.00 / 6) (#115)
by Ellie on Thu May 15, 2008 at 05:19:53 PM EST
I'm infuriated beyond words with the tactic and talking point to pre-blame women for Dems' own ineffectiveness by holding Roe v Wade and SCOTUS and other "women's" issues over our heads.

And doesn't that shameful diminishment of using vanishing constitutional rights like a Willie Horton fearmongering flash-card say all there is to say about what this Obama-bound Dem party is about.

I haven't even started on why this oily posedown of proxies, mascots and shills to get HRC supporters into the herd is deeply insulting to us as free thinking people and as voters in a democracy.

Since no one else has raised this, do I need to remind anyone that one's vote is one's own until cast, and no one has to justify why it will be / has been cast that way?

Apparently certain groups have taken it upon themselves to demand (rather imperiously) that other individuals or groups explain why they intend to vote this way or that.

This would be unthinkable to demand of, eg, rich older white men. Why aren't the news networks demanding that "the guys" at the studio declare and defend their allegiances on camera?

 

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I applaud you! (5.00 / 3) (#121)
by pie on Thu May 15, 2008 at 05:21:30 PM EST
Well said.

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We've got a woman candidate... (5.00 / 2) (#168)
by lambertstrether on Thu May 15, 2008 at 05:38:20 PM EST
... who's winning men, primary by primary. That's an amazing achievement, when I think about it.

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Does Unifying The Party Involve The Clinton Wing? | 222 comments (222 topical)

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