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This entry was written by vjp and posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 at 10:48 pm and filed under 2008 Presidential Race, Hillary Clinton, National, Politics. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.
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Yeah, I had to stay up and watch what happened.
What an amazing week for American history. Last week, for the first time ever, a black man won a primary contest. This week, for the first time ever, a woman did the same thing.
I kind of wish I was old enough to know if this is what it was like to see a man walk on the moon.
Well, I’m old enough
I’ll say this: the pictures now are better 
I stayed up late enough to hear Terry McAuliffe attribute the win to Hillary Clinton’s “humanizing moment” (his words). Barf, barf, barf.
This is a cheap trick that cannot be repeated. What’s next?
terry Mc Auliffe? I hope they don’t bring back THAT crowd. You do , hillary and you are toast.
We need to go forward, no back.
Hillary has a lot of positives – she’s smart, thoughtful, and can throw a punch (and lord knows she can take one). But one of the negatives that keeps me from getting behind her is that yes, we’ll get back “that” crowd. They did some good things, to be sure, but they’re also the same Dems that let the last 8 years happen. It’s a big negative, in my book. However, I don’t think it’s a big negative in enough books to make a difference – it won’t even crisp her up, nevermind make her toast.
And while I’m at it, I’ll even say it was nice to see her give the electoral finger to the punditry. The speed and effort that the Cool Kids put into burying her after Iowa was almost enough to make me pull for her yesterday.
I wanna echo Anon 11:22’s excitement! This is just so exciting. Dem voters apparently turned out in droves in NH. Good for them! And good for the U.S.!
Those who are ignorant of History….
http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/261474
Oh, and Jessie is like a Ford Model T — 100% American and 100% Black.
Crying Woman = sympathy votes.
I bet the guy who polled that staged cry-fest is proud of his recomendation.
Sad
Until they find the memo. Hillary Clinton is serious, strong, extremely intelligent, independent, and hard-working. Those are good traits, in a man or a woman. She doesn’t need to apologize for that, or to show her “human” side. The people who demand that she does are holding her to a different standard than the male candidates, as if those traits somehow contradict “humanity” in a woman. She should have had the courage to call them on it directly.
No one has ever asked Rudy Guiliani or Fred Thompson why they’re not “likeable.” No one ever asked them “how they do it” or “who does your hair.” No one has created an avalanche of press coverage over the response, or given us breathless updates on the woman who dared to ask this supposedly groundbreaking question.
To me, this is the gender equivalent of the “is he black enough” question that Obama faces, from many of the usual suspects. Exactly what is the right quantity of “black?” Exactly how “female” must Hillary Clinton be? Does she show it by crying, silliness, frivolity, or that little laugh? It really comes down to, is Hillary Clinton a “real woman?” Of course she is, and she should have the courage to be who she really is, no matter the consequences.
These questions are being asked by people who, only a decade ago, listed “working moms” as a serious social problem, right alongside drug addiction, unemployment, poverty, and gangs. Their worldview is seriously skewed. They are wrong. There is no contradiction between professional accomplishments and being female. Those who think otherwise should be confronted directly, not reaffirmed in their sexist assumptions with a Butterfly McQueen moment.