Hillary, You Didn’t Win. Now Don’t Whine

hey eleanor the bXtch, you didn't go to Ivy League. Now stop writing.

Wow! I have read a lot of blog over the past months, and I can state this is by far some of the best blogging I have read.. Eleanor, I always liked your comments on PBS and this one is right on target. Hillary, Bill and her people have to take ownership for the out come her. As a AA male leader in my community, I tell this all the time to these young black kids male, female and their parents: " When are you going to take ownership for your own life and stop blaming the white man for the things that are not right in your life?" I preach and teach this daily. I would love to see a woman in the wh. but not this woman! I would love to a black man in the wh. but but Jessie Jackson I'm one of few black families that I know of that are replicans! Yes we do exist, I voted for Bush both times, his father Both times and Ragan. But his year I crossed over and voted for Obama, Not because he was 1/2 black we get that part, but because all my life I wanted america to be as color blend as she could be... Hillary was winning 40% of the black vote until her and Bill played the race card in SC. I can't speak for all of black american, I can't find the word to convey here as to how proud!!!! Black America is right now that White America has open their hearts up to this black man with the funny name Obama Something the media for some reason don't poll and the lasting impect this one event in time will have on race in America, never be the same. I mean this guy was winning states that are 90-95% white? by large belowout margins! Media has over looked this as well. I don't know if he will win the GE. and at this point I don't care right long way off... All I can say is IN MY LIFE TIME!!!! At 52, We were told not in your life time! Today! Black America is beamimg! I don't think it has sunk in as yet! Thank you America for being so color blend God Bless!

The cry of sexism rings hollow when you consider that Sen. Clinton's pitch is she wins the L'il Abner vote (hard working white males in Appalachia) and therefor can win those states in November. She did not win those votes because she was a woman. She won those votes because she is white. But you can bet, L'il Abner ain't gonna vote for Daisy Mae in the fall.

Oops -- for all you hypersensitive people out there -- "mankind" --> "humankind" --> "all life on earth".

There, that should be inclusive enough, and maybe closer to the truth.

This recent article in the Economist:

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?source=hptextfeature&story_id=11449804

says that women might actually be smarter than men, except maybe at geometry and opening peanut butter jars.

Maybe that's why younger women aren't full of despair and rage over the outcome of the Democratic primaries. They will inherit the future, and sooner rather than later, they'll field a worthy candidate for president.

This one is not a standard bearer for feminism. She's the poster child for dynasticism, nepotism, and raw hunger for power. That she bungled her campaign so thoroughly is a boon to mankind.

Much has been made over the last several months about how the Democratic party can possibly nominate Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton. Well, Senator Clinton welcome to the world of men . . . and women . . . and political power . . . now, an even playing field, where here you and your feminist forebears have labored endlessly for your right to compete. And you blew it. Here's a thought: perhaps Hillary Clinton has, for all intents and purposes, lost the Democratic nomination because (at least under the current DNC rules) . . . she got beat.

Endless articles have been written about what went wrong with the Hillary Clinton campaign. Numerous reasons have been given for how such a vaunted politician and equally-vaunted campaign could go so far off-track, from her reliance on ???inevitability???. to her reliance to her failure to fight for all the pledged delegates possible, to her reliance on campaign advisers valued more for their loyalty than for their vision or their ability to get the job done. In sum, Senator Clinton has wholly mismanaged her campaign for the Democratic nomination. And despite arguments to the contrary, athletic contests are deemed over well prior to the final buzzer by both the victor and the vanquished. One can often see both professional and college athletes vacating football fields and basketball courts prior to the final buzzer when the winning score is too far out of reach. But you don't see those losing the basketball game then approaching the referees asking for all those 1-point free throws to now count as 3-pointers.

By comparison alone, Senator Clinton's gross mismanagement should make clear to everyone, whether black, white, male, female, gay, straight, Catholic, Protestant, liberal, conservative or centrist, or ???other???, the Democratic nomination must go to the candidate who has been the most-prepared, the most detail-oriented, the hardest-working, ready, willing and able to compete from buzzer to buzzer . . . because it's not going to get any easier in the GE or the WH. The nominee should then be the person with an uncanny ability to gather around him those who are not only loyal, but sticklers for details, with the knowledge and skills required to get the job done.

Ultimately, it would appear Senator Clinton has fallen victim, not to misogyny and the misery of her gender as she and her supporters would like to suggest and have us believe, but to the arrogance of power, which as it happens . . . dare I say it? . . . befalls both men and women. Even more sad, however, is the sentiment from some women that they would vote for John McCain over Barack Obama, even though Clinton's policies better mirror Obama's policies than McCain's. It appears these women simply want a woman, any woman, in the White House, and perhaps did not, and will not, exercise their right to vote based on their own independent judgment . . . the right to an intelligent vote for which their feminist forebears labored endlessly.

DNC meeting wil resume at 4:15 on C-Span. Re-runs are being shown now. Voters gave the DNC the right to make rules. And those rules were made before the primary elections began this year.

They are attempting to change the rules in the middle of the game (no law allows this). That is cheating: Cheating an election is illegal (unamerican, an embarrassment to America). But Obama is willing to seat half the delegates, since that is the automatic rule, (just to have this issue resolved now). Actually, it's already resolved, but Clinton cheaters want to change the rules.

Hillary Clinton exhibits the characteristics of a sociopath. There's nothing sexist about that.

The claim of sexism is a dodge. We are definitely overdue for a woman president, but Hillary Clinton is the wrong woman. Distrusting her is not proof of sexism. Many people, myself included, dislike her not because she is a woman but because she is a deluded, narcissistic, power hungry liar. If she were a man with the same set of negative attributes, I would dislike her just as strongly. Take George W. Bush, for example.

The claim of sexism is a dodge. We are definitely overdue for a woman president, but Hillary Clinton is the wrong woman. Distrusting her is not proof of sexism. Many people, myself included, dislike her not because she is a woman but because she is a deluded, narcissistic, power hungry liar. If she were a man with the same set of negative attributes, I would dislike her just as strongly. Take George W. Bush, for example.

The only ones I ever see or hear screaming for Hillary to get out are her own supporters who constantly post the rhetoric on every blog they hang out in. Hillary Clinton is for Hillary Clinton. She could care less about the FLA. & MI voters or her supporters who have given every cent of theirs to her campaign. What a dutiful flock of sheep they are.

Obama will grin and grin when he loses to McCain as a result of millions of Clintonites voting McCain.

What's so terrible about a contested election?

Why shouldn't Hillary fight to the last?

That makeseminent sense.

It gives the electorate in every part of the country a chance to judge between her and Obama.

That is why the VOTERS have steadily favoured a contest going on to the finish.

Those who scream that Hillary must get out forget the opinion of the VOTERS.

Hillary tries to get as good a result as she can, even if she is beaten. It makes all the difference in the world whether one is beaten by a very tiny margin (as seems likely with Hillary) or by a wide one after quitting early.

She can go to the voters in 2012 and ask their support for another run with the confidence that she has been proven to be a tough, tenacious fighter.

Obama will lose in 2008 with many Democratic voters like me going for McCain.

The fact is, there've been far, far more comments ABOUT sexism than actual sexism. Of course there are males who are displeased with a female candidate. There're also plenty, plenty of females who support Hillary mainly because of her gender. The same thing could be said of racism - one may argue it favors Clinton, while another could point out the overwhelmingly support of blacks that Obama received.

One difference I would note, however, is that Clinton did portray herself as the "female" candidate. Talking now about sexism would be the same as if Jesse Jackson were to say he lost because of racism - it doesn't make sense, because YOU injected gender into this campaign. It can't benefit her both ways - if she wants to be a fighter for women, she gets more support of females, and probably less support from males. It's a complicated case, but I would say that, based on the fact that 80% of the country is white and 60% of the democratic base is female, Clinton benefited both from counter-sexism and white racism against Obama. Nonetheless, no one should ignore the barriers that Clinton had crossed, in this campaign or in her life.

Wow Eleanor playing with the boys has turned you into a women hater. Pointing out sexism is not whining. Senator Clinton has every right to keep on running in such a close race as her supporters have a right to keep on supporting her. I guess women should just shupt and get back to the kitchen. I don't own allegiance to any party but to what I think it's right. This primary season has turned me oft the so called Democratic party which has been hijacked by the left. Time for a viable third party.