Primary election blues
May 16, 2008 10:48 AM   Subscribe

"Bros before Hos." Poor Hillarity.
posted by semmi (17 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: don't do this here. -- jessamyn



 
Hillary lost because she ran a campaign based on the past, and Obama ran one based on the future.
posted by empath at 10:52 AM on May 16, 2008 [2 favorites]


One of them had to lose. Rather than figure out how this unavoidable ending can be blamed on either sexism or racism, why not be happy that we had a WOMAN and a BLACK GUY as our top two contenders?
posted by DU at 10:55 AM on May 16, 2008 [4 favorites]


Who doesn't like the fucking future?
posted by rxrfrx at 10:56 AM on May 16, 2008


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posted by felix at 10:56 AM on May 16, 2008 [1 favorite]


Who doesn't like the fucking future?

Me. Get your flying car off my space-lawn.
posted by ninjew at 10:57 AM on May 16, 2008


In related news: Racist Incidents Give Some Obama Campaigners Pause. Transcript of online discussion with WaPo's Kevin Merida who wrote the article.
posted by ericb at 10:58 AM on May 16, 2008


Doesn't this all but rip off "Goodbye to all that #2," widely circulated on the Internet over the last few months?
posted by gerryblog at 11:00 AM on May 16, 2008


Ah, the gender card on the river. I wonder if Obama would have resorted to the race card if the roles were reversed...somehow I doubt it; just as misogyny seems to be more "acceptable" than racism, the misogyny card is as well I suppose.
posted by whatgorilla at 11:01 AM on May 16, 2008


...getting people remotely linked to your past exploits to skew them unfairly to make you seem like you committed acts of treason.

An attempt to 'swiftboat' Obama gone terribly wrong -- Chris Matthews Eviscerates Conservative Talk Host For Not Knowing Meaning Of Appeasement [video]. Watch it!
posted by ericb at 11:02 AM on May 16, 2008


What Went Wrong? -- "The exclusive story of Hillary's fall, as told by the high-level advisors, staffers, fundraisers, and on-the-ground organizers who lived it."
posted by ericb at 11:04 AM on May 16, 2008


Good lord. Maybe the "bitch" label came about because of the vicious, negative campaign she's been running. Any male candidate running a campaign like that would be referred to as an "asshole" or "dickhead" or any number of other derogatory names. Will it make this poor columnist happy if I retire the gender-specific names in favor of something more neutral?
posted by TrialByMedia at 11:05 AM on May 16, 2008


I though Bill was the ho?
posted by IronLizard at 11:06 AM on May 16, 2008


The sexist vs. racist discussion with the Democratic candidates is really getting old. Obviously, both exist and both have a big impact on elections. But consider how far we've come.

My own decision to support Obama had nothing to do with such stupidity. I think of Clinton and Obama to be nearly equivocal in most of their issue stands, so I ended up making my choice based on the fact Clinton voted to authorize Bush's Blank Iraq Check. Obama wasn't in the senate then, but he did give an excellent speech against "Dumb Wars" in 2002, which was gutsy for someone with political aspirations given the political climate at that time.

Clinton's rhetoric now is "if I'd known then what I know now" Well, I want to elect a president that can't have the wool pulled over his/her eyes, or bend to political fear (which is likely what it really was), that easily.

I knew Iraq was a dumb war in 2002, just like Obama. He got my vote, more enthusiastically than any Democratic presidential candidate I've ever voted for.
posted by mcstayinskool at 11:06 AM on May 16, 2008


All right, that's it. That's the last straw.

*settles into cryogenic storage chamber, sets thaw date for Nov. 4th*
posted by you just lost the game at 11:06 AM on May 16, 2008


I think if there had been a large public outcry about the 'misogyny' against clinton it could have backfired.

But whatever, I think Hillary Clinton really reviled herself to be an awful person. How am I supposed to get weepy-eyed about someone who dredged up all this negativity and vitriol? All our vulgar words for bad person are kind of gendered. We call men assholes and bastards, and women are called bitches.

I think, frankly, that this idea that vulgar attacks on one woman is the same thing as vulgar attacks on all women is misplaced. If a man were behaving the way Hillary was, he'd be called all kinds of names, in fact I think if a man were trading in the kind of racial stuff that Hillary was trading in as a democratic candidate he'd be vilified and condemned far, far more strongly.

Just imagine if John Edwards had said he was the candidate of "hard working white Americans". Would it have been brushed off? I kinda doubt it.
posted by delmoi at 11:06 AM on May 16, 2008


So, it's over?
posted by Mister_A at 11:10 AM on May 16, 2008


Considering how flat out mean and underhanded political campains can be, I have a hard time scraping up some outrage over this. Sorry Hil, all out of whaaa! Come back later.

I do have to admit that the inter-left mudslinging seems fairly harsh this year. I get the impression that the Clintons want to join the ranks of the Bushs and Kennedys as an american political family, and are not afraid to damage the standing of the democratic party to get it. Seems it would be easier for a Clinton to wrest the presidencial seat from a republican in 2012 than it would be to cede to a party member and try again in 2016.

Posted by a registered Independant from an iPhone, YMMV.
posted by The Power Nap at 11:12 AM on May 16, 2008


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